Romancing the Revolution
The Myth of Soviet Democracy and the British Left
Distributed for Athabasca University Press
Romancing the Revolution
The Myth of Soviet Democracy and the British Left
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Timeline: May 1916 to January 1925
Introduction
1. Well-Prepared Ground: The British Left on the Eve of the Russian Revolution
2. Initial Responses to the Russian Revolution: The British Left in 1917 and the Leeds “Soviet” Convention
3. The Bolsheviks and the British Left: The October Revolution and the Suppression of the Constituent Assembly
4. The Myth Established: The Positive View of Soviet Democracy
5. Polarized Social-Democrats: Denunciation and Debate
6. Equivocal Reformists: The Independent Labour Party, the Guild Socialists, and the Reaction to Kautsky
7. The Dictatorship of the Proletariat
8. The Independent Labour Party and the Third International: A Crucial Test for Belief in Soviet Democracy
9. “An Infantile Disorder”: Communist Unity and the Brief Life of the Communist Party (British Section of the Third International)
10. British Bolsheviks? The Socialist Labour Party
11. Pankhurst’s Dreadnought and the (Original) Fourth International: “Left Communism” and Soviet Democracy
12. The Early British Communist Party: Soviet Democracy Deferred and Redefined
13. Endings and Conclusions
Notes
Bibliography
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