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Subject: M-NEWS: What is new at Socialist Appeal's In Defence of Marxism site
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 97 15:32:56 +0000
From: <socappeal-AT-easynet.co.uk>


What is new at Socialist Appeal's In Defence of Marxism site (September 
9, 1997)

Russia, from revolution to counter-revolution (still in construction)
(http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~socappeal/russia/)

Ted Grant, with a foreword by Trotsky's grandson Vsievolod Volkov, and an 
introduction by Alan Woods has already been published and we have started 
its publication on-line. The book, nearly 600 pages long, covers the key 
developments in Russia since the Revolution right up to the present day. 
It traces the elimination of workers' democracy, the rise of Stalinism, 
the advances of planned economy and the eventual collapse of the 
bureaucratic system under Gorbachev. Using the method of Marxism, Ted 
Grant uncovers the contradictory developments that have shaped the Soviet 
Union over the last 70 years and finally led to its downfall. He also 
deals in detail with the present situation in Russia under Yeltsin and 
assesses the possibilities for a successful restoration of capitalism. 
Not since the publication of Trotsky's book "The Revolution Betrayed" in 
1936 has such a detailed and comprehensive Marxist study of Russia been 
undertaken.

The parts already available on-line are:

- Foreword by Vsievolod Volkov (Trotsky's grandson)
- Introduction by Alan Woods
- Part One: The Balance Sheet of October (covering the October 
Revolution, the Constituent Assembly, Russia's isolation and the period 
leading to the New Economic Policy)

The book can be ordered from any bookshop in Britain quoting the ISBN 
number (1 9000 07 02 9) and the trade distributor is Central Books). For 
information about getting a paper copy of the book outside Britain:

Wellred Publications
PO Box 2626
London N1 7SQ
tel: + (44) 0171 251 10 94
fax: + (44) 0171 251 10 95
email: wellred-AT-socappeal.easynet.co.uk
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