It's Not Over

Name: It's Not Over | Learning From the Socialist Experiment
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Learning From the Socialist Experiment

Pete Dolack(Autor*in)

John Hunt Publishing

Erschienen am 26. Februar 2016

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Intro
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Dedication
Preface
Acknowledgments
Notes on Style
Chapter 1: Foundation for Isolation: The Revolutionary Period of 1917-21
Arc of a movement: Fervent militancy to quiet accommodation
Acceleration in retrograde: Social democracy marches off to war
The paths of experience: Rebellions and schisms as nationalism fades
Preparing the spark: Russia's long decades of struggle
Russia can't stand still: February's thaw brings October's storms
The elusiveness of power and fragmentation of the parties: The crisis of October
Taking power: Coalition or the dustbin?
The German revolution: Fueled from below but guided from above
Impatience and reaction: Disorganization in German streets is countered by organized force
Blind to the right: Social democracy gives the counter-revolution a free hand
Revolution in Europe: Wishful thinking or a near miss?
Fight to the finish: The civil war in Russia
Ebb tide: The Communist International orders a revolution and fails
Chapter 2: The Socio-economic Bases for the Rise of the Stalin Dictatorship
Lenin's goal of a reduced state, and the opposite results
The Bolsheviks ban opposition and take away their own freedom
Lenin rethinks his views in his final days, and Stalin sees his opportunity
The bureaucracy underpinning Stalin's power, and the party's desire to back the majority
The origins of the cult of personality, and its effects on the struggle for control at the top
The surprising tepidness of change on the shop floor and in the countryside in NEP Russia
The debate over "socialist accumulation" and the gathering crises of standing still
The social forces for collectivizing agriculture from below, and the harshness of commands from the top
Material incentives and labor discipline in industrialization
Fear at the top and terror below during the Great Purges
The results of a personal dictatorship and the morbid decay of a system stripped of all moorings
Chapter 3: The Destroyed Experiment of a Developed, Industrial State: Prague Spring
A popular beginning is overtaken by a larger neighbor
An early attempt at establishing workers' councils in Poland and Hungary
An increasing chafing at political and economic bottlenecks
A country in ferment begins to find its voice
A question of pace: Too fast, too slow, or irrelevant?
A first foot forward: The Action Program
A series of responses from inside and outside
An acceleration of economic reform and the first formations of workers' councils
A decision that reverberated for decades: The Soviet Union invades
An experiment in economic democracy continues (temporarily) as more workers' councils are formed
A process of "normalization" turns into a rout
Chapter 4: The Destroyed Experiment of an Undeveloped, Agricultural State: The Sandinista Revolution
Nicaraguan leaders provide "profitable investment," with one exception
Multinational corporations extract profits from Central America, with some assistance
Somoza offers bucks for friends, bullets for enemies
Sandinistas struggle to find the right strategy, cope with life underground
Nicaraguan insurgency becomes a mass movement, defying organized terror
New government begins process of rebuilding, with strains showing early
Pressure from below shapes agricultural policy, with tensions
Competing economic interests grow more irreconcilable, destabilizing the multi-class coalition
Creating mass-participation democracy is one task, maintaining it is another
The United States funds a terror campaign, assisted by Sandinista high-handedness
Colonialism is easy to understand when you are on the wrong end, harder from the power end
Elections instituted by a vanguard party demonstrate support for revolution, despite sabotage
Nicaragua provides another lesson in the high cost of the rich, as the revolution is brought to an end
Nicaragua's women take some steps forward and some backward, mirroring historical experience
The Sandinistas learn to become an opposition force, but develop into a conventional party
Chapter 5: The Dissolution of the Soviet Union
Sometimes yes, sometimes no: The contradictions of Khrushchev's reforms
Ideology over intellect: The parallels of Leonid Brezhnev and George W. Bush
Look down below: Reform plans and intellectual ferment under the surface of stagnation
Fruits of stagnation: The complexity of structural dysfunction
Steel teeth and a fast start: Gorbachev makes his first moves as general secretary
More stick than carrot: Uneven implementation of the enterprise law of 1987
Differences come out in the open: The party is not so monolithic after all
Pushing back: Unrest develops as the slow pace of reforms fails to improve living standards
Man without a plan: Unable to make a decision, Gorbachev opts for capitalism
Grabbing power: Yeltsin creates a dual government
Steel into air: The August putsch brings down the curtain
Shock therapy: Unprecedented collapse as the "Chicago School" conducts an experiment
"Chopping the Gordian knot": Capital slices through democracy
Chapter 6: Imagining a Better World Is the First Step
Explorations in theories of transition to and from capitalism
Explorations in theories of the continuing dominance of capitalism
Conceptualizations of the economic barriers to democracy under capitalism
Conceptualizations of the sociological barriers to democracy under capitalism
Conceptualizations of the financial barriers to democracy under capitalism
Conceptualizations of the nationalist barriers to democracy under capitalism
Notes toward a philosophy of political democracy
Notes toward a philosophy of economic democracy
Cooperating for the future or competing for the end

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