REVOLUTIONARY HISTORY

A list of contents up to the Summer 1996 issue

Compiled by John Plant, with assistance from Ted Crawford

Vol 1 No 1, Spring 1988

Editorial

Albert Glotzer : British Trotskyism in 1931
Harry Ratner : With the Molinier Group
Harry Selby : Brief Notes on the History of the Left Fraction
Reg Groves : The Socialist League
Sam Bornstein & Al Richardson : For the Record (Corrections to their 'War & The International')
Pierre Broue : Rudolf Klement
Rudolf Klement : Principles & Tactics in War
Sam Gordon : Paul Lafargue
Ernest Rogers : Two false oppositions (On trotskyists in the Socialist League)
Workers International League : The WIL view (On relations with the RSL)
Charles Sumner : The case against Fenner Brockway
Karl Kautsky : The intellectuals and the workers

Mike Howgate : Readers Notes (Listings of relevant press items)

Spartacist statement (Their usual line on 'ostensibly revolutionary groups')

Vol 1 No 2, Summer 1988
The hidden history of the Spanish Civil War

Editorial

Baruch Hirson : Li Fu-Jen (Pt 1)
Prometheus Research Library : Li Fu-Jen (Pt 2)
Paul Flewers : Stalinism & Spain
Spartacist statement (criticisms of Flewers' article)
Pierre Broue : Walter Held
Nils Kaare Dahl : Some memories of Walter Held
Walter Held : Stalinism and the POUM in the Spanish Revolution
Keith Hassell : Trotsky and the POUM
Pierre Broue : The 'May Days' of 1937 in Barcelona
Ernest Rogers : Preface to 'Barricades in Barcelona'
Hugo Oehler : 'Barricades in Barcelona'

Kurt Landau : Stalinism in Spain (with preface by Alfred Rosmer)

Mike Howgate : Readers Notes

Vol 1 No 3, Autumn 1988
War and Revolution in Europe : 1939 - 1945

Editorial

Dissenting statement by international Spartacist tendency on the 3rd International
Jean-Paul Joubert : Revolutionary Defeatism
Sam Levy : The Proletarian Military Policy Revisited
Rodolphe Prager : The Fourth International During the Second World War
Voix Ouvriere : A Constant Opportunism
Lutte Ouvriere / Daniel Guerin : Trotsky and the Second World War
Errata for Vol 1 No 2
Martin Upham : The Aylesbury By-election of 1938

Readers Notes

Vol 2 No 1 Spring 1988
Strikes & Leadership : Trotskyists and Major Class Battles

Editorial Ernest Rogers : The Apprentices Struggle of 1937
Covin R. de Silva : Hartal
Readers notes

Vol 2 No 2 Summer 1989
Nationalism, resistance and imperialist war
Trotskyism in Argentina and Scandinavia

Editorial Osvaldo Coggiola : The History of Argentine Trotskyism
John Sullivan : Liborio Justo and Argentinian Trotskyism
Nils Khaare Dahl : With Trotsky in Norway
Borge Trolle : Danish Trotskyism in World War Two (with illegal wartime documents)
Grandizo Munis (1912 - 1989), Obituary and documents, recollection by Ernest Rogers
Judith Shapiro : The Prophet Returned ? A survey of recent works by/about Trotsky in the Soviet Union

Errata to Vol 1 No 4 and Vol 2 No 1

Bob Archer : Work in Progress in German

Reader's Notes

Vol 2 No 3, Autumn 1989
Germany : the key
The German Left 1919 to 1935

Editorial

Mike Jones : The Decline, Disorientation and Decomposition of a Leadership
Spartacist comment on Jones's article
Pierre Broue : The German Left and the Russian Opposition (1926 - 28)
Wolfgang Alles : German Trotskyism in the 1930s
Permanente Revolution : Where is the SAP going ?

Reader's Notes

Vol 2 No 4, Spring 1990
The Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution

Editorial

Paul Collin : The Tragedy of the Chinese revolution
"The Awakening of the Chinese workers' movement"
Damien Durand : The birth of the Chinese Left Opposition
Pierre Broue : Chen Duxiu and the Fourth International
International Communist League : The peasant war in China
Frank Glass : The Communist League of China
Zheng Chaolin : On the nature of revolution
Peng Shuzi : Trotskyism in China
Wang Fanzi : Problems of Chinese trotskyism

Volume 3 No 1, Summer 1990
Stalinism & Communism in Eastern Europe

Editorial

Out of the Shadows (Notes on Moscow meeting about Trotsky)
Fred Kissin : My Political Experiences in the Trotskyist Movement
Fred Kissin : A Visit to Trotsky
International Communists of Germany : Nazis Send Arms to Spanish Fascists
Lutte Ouvriere : When Tito was a Revolutionary, according to Pierre Frank and Gerard Bloch
W Jedlicki : Ludwick Hass
Ludwick Hass : The Bolshevik-Leninist (Fourth International) Movement in Poland up to 1945
Ludwick Hass : Trotsky's Writings in Polish during the Inter-War Years
Barta : How the Bolshevik-Leninist Group of Romania was Founded
Sadik Premtaj : Stalinism and Communism in Albania
Balacz Nagy : The Present Day Relevance of the Transitional Programme (from 1966)
Szabo Laszlo Zsolt : The History of the Publication of Trotsky's Works in Hungarian
The Political Legacy of Gerry Healy ; Comments and statements by ICL (Spartacists), John Archer, WIL, Workers Power, Workers Revolutionary Party (Workers Press)
Oskar Hippe (1900 - 1990) - Obituary by Bob Archer and extract from "... and Red is the Colour of Our Flag"

Errata for Vol 2 No 4

Books and Magazines Wanted

Reader's Notes

Vol 3 No 2 Autumn 1990
Vietnam. Workers' Revolution and National Independence

Editorial

Hugo Oehler : The Ukranine Question (with an introduction by Ernest Rogers)

Simon Pirani : The Fourth International in Vietnam
Daniel Hemery : La Lutte and the Vietnames Trotskyists
Ngo Van Xuyet : On Vietnam
Ngo Van Xuyet : Ta Thu Thau. Vietnamese Trotskyist Leader
A Letter to Trotsky (from leaders of La Lutte)
Extract from Cam Tu : Trotskyist Fighters in the Forefront of the Struggle to Free Indochina
Comrade P : My First Steps Towards the Permanent Revolution
Ngo Van Xuyet : A 'Moscow Trial' in Ho Chi Minh's Gerilla Movement
ICL (Vietnamese Section of the FI) : Our Position, 8 July 47
Lu Sanh Hanh : Some Stages in the Revolution in the South of Vietnam

Erratum to Vol 3 No 1

Reader's Notes

Vol 3 No 3 Spring 1991
Trotskyism and Stalinism in Greece

Editorial

Loukas Karliaftis : Stalinism and Trotskyism in Greece (1924 - 1949)
P. Pouliopoulos & P. Giatsopoulos : Open Letter to the KKE
Raymond Molinier & Pavel Okun : The Left Opposition in Greece
Archeiomarxist Congress Resolution (Sept 1930)
Open Letter to the ECCI (from the Archeiomarxists, July 1933)
Loukas Karliaftis : From Acronauplia to Nezero
Loukas Karliaftis : On War and Revolution
ICL : Statement of reservations about the content of this issue

Reader's Notes

Vol 3 No 4 Autumn 1991
Imperialist War and National Resistance

Editorial

Pierre Broue : How Trotsky and the Trotskyists Confronted the Second World War
Daniel Guerin's preface to Trotsky on WWII
Andre Frankin's review of the above
Information Ouvriere's attack on Guerin
Guerin's postscript
The KPD and the solidarity of the illegals (Statement by German exiles in London)

Editorial Statement on the ICL's departure from Revolutionary History, and some corrections to Vol 3 No 3 Errata to Vol 3 No 3 Reader's Notes

Vol 4, Nos 1 & 2
The Spanish Civil War. The View from the Left

(Dedicated to the Memory of Sam Bornstein)

Introduction

Part 1 : Causation

Andy Durgan : The Spanish Trotskyists and the Foundation of the POUM
Hans Schanfranek : Kurt Landau
Kurt Landau : The Spanish Revolution of 1936 and the German Revolution of 1918 - 19
Mieczyslaw Bortenstein : Spain Betrayed ; How the Popular Front Opened the Gates to Franco

Part 2 : Eyewitness

Nicola di Bartolomeo : The Activity of the Bolshevik-Leninists in Spain and its Lessons
Don Bateman : Georges Kopp and the POUM Militia
Domenico Sedran : Carlini in Spain
Pietro Fancelli : Letters from Spain
August Thalheimer : Notes on a Stay in Catalonia
A Brandlerite Militant : Three Months on the Huesca Front
Sherry Mangan : Spanish Militants Describe Their Escape

Part 3 : Analysis

Hans David Freund : Letters from Madrid
Hans David Freund : Dual Power in the Spanish Revolution
Jose Rebull : On Dual power
Jose Rebull : On the Slogan of a UGT-CNT Government
Waldemar Bolze : Where are the Real Saboteurs ?
Jean Rous : Spain 1936-39 ; The Murdered Revolution

(This is a book size and format issue, and does not carry the usual reviews and letters sections)

Vol 4 No 3, Summer 1992
Bolivia. The Revolution Derailed ? The Crisis of 1952 and the Trotskyist Movement

Editorial

Juan Robles : Trotskyism in Bolivia
Guillermo Lora : The Bolivian revolution and the Activity of the POR
Pierre Broue : Bolivia, 9 April 1952 : A Forgotten 'February Revolution' ?
International Executive Committee : Draft Resolution
Liborio Justo : Bolivia. The Revolution Defeated
Jean Lieven : Bolivia
Jose Villa : A Revolution Betrayed

Errata to Vol 4 No 1/2

Reader's Notes

Vol 4 No 4, Spring 1993
"Colour and Class" ; The origins of South African Trotskyism

Editorial

Narrative

Baruch Hirson : The economic background to South Africa
Baruch Hirson : Resistance and socialism in South Africa
Baruch Hirson : The trotskyist groups in South Africa
Ian Hunter : Raff Lee and the pioneer trotskyists of Johannesburg
Baruch Hirson : The trotskyists and the trade unionists
Baruch Hirson : Profiles of some South African trotskyists

Documents

Preliminary correspondence (On the founding of the first group in SA, Thibedi, Trotsky)
The land question : Race and class (Items by Burlak, Ruth Fischer and the WPSA)
The Trade Unions (Burlak, Max Gordon)
Party and Class (Burlak,)
The Coming War (Averbach, Burlak)

Readers' notes

Vol 5 No 1, Autumn 1993
"Eyewitness to Disaster" ; The German Labour Movement and the Rise of Hitler, 1929-33

Editorial

Mildred Gordon : Sam Gordon (1910-1982) - Scientific Socialist
Sam Gordon : Reports from Germany, 1929 - 1930
Mike Jones : A Comment on Sam Gordon's Reports
Mika Etchebehere : Hyppolite Etchebehere, called Juan Rustico
Hyppolite Etchebehere : The Tragedy of the German Proletariat
Hyppolite Etchebehere : Letters to an Argentine Comrade
Ernest Rogers : Etchebehere's Assessment Confirmed
Mike Jones : Jan Valtin - A False Witness

Readers' Notes

Vol 5 No 2, Spring 1994
"Germany 1918 - 23" From the November Revolution to the Failed October

Editorial

Jakob Reich : The First Years of the Communist International
Arthur Rosenberg : The Kapp Putsch and the Working Class
Udo Winkel : Paul Levi and his significance for the communist movement in Germany
Paul Levi : Introduction to Trotsky's "The Lessons of October"
Ernest Rogers : A comment on Paul Levi's article
August Thalheimer : The struggle for the United Front in Germany
Jacob Walcher : Notes on the conversations between Trotsky and Walcher 17 - 20 August 1933
Mike Jones : Germany 1923
Victor Serge : Observations in Germany 1923
Bernard Reichenbach : The KAPD in retrospect

Announcement of availability of supplementary documents

Vol 5 No 3
Victor Serge. The Century of the Unexpected. Essays on revolution and Counter-Revolution

Editorial

Victor Serge : Lenin in 1917
Victor Serge : The Class Struggle in the Chinese Revolution
Richard Greeman : The Victor Serge Affair and the French Literary Left
Ernest Rogers : Serge, Poretsky, Etienne. A Paris hotel 1937
Victor Serge : Planned Economies and Democracy, 1941 - 1947
Julian Gorkin : The Last Years of Victor Serge, 1941 - 1947

FA Ridley (1897 - 1994) An Appreciation

Readers' Notes

Vol.5 No.4
THE ITALIAN LEFT
Through Fascism, War and Revolution: Trotskyism and Left Communism in Italy

Editorial

Paulo Casciola : Alfonso Leonetti: a Turncoat Trotskyist
Alfonso Leonetti : Why I Am Rejoining the Italian Communist Party
Paulo Casciola : Nicolo do Bartolomeo (1901-1946)
Paulo Casciola : Pietro Tresso and the early years of Italian Trotskyism.
Paulo Casciola : Blasco's people.
Paulo Casciola : Some Historical Vignettes.
Pierre Broue : The Italian Communist Party, the War and the Revolution.
Arturo Peregalli : The Left Wing Opposition in Italy during the Period of Resistance.
Paulo Casciola : Trotskyism and the Revolution in Italy (1943-44)
Provisional European Secretariat of the Fourth International : Manifesto to the Italian Workers, Peasants and Soldiers.
Paulo Casciola : The Troubled Relations Between the Communist Workers Party and the Fourth International.

Vol 6 No 1, Winter 1995-96
Trotskyism in Poland

Editorial

Ludwik Hass : Trotskyism in Poland up to 1945
Ludwik Hass : Against all odds - true to the ideals of his youth
B. Drobner, W. Kielecki & H. Swoboda : Draft Programme of the polish Socialist Party
Leon Trotsky : Entry into the Socialist in Poland
Bolshevik-Leninists of Poland : Open Letter to Members of the Polish Communist Party
Notes on the Life of Ludwik Hass
Grzegorz Soltysiak : The Hass Group
Amnesty International and the case of Ludwik Hass
Ludwik Hass : Open Letter to Ozjask Szechter
Solidarity's Tragedy is its Advisers - An interview with Ludwik Hass
Ludwik Hass : Breaking with the Old Version of the History of the CPSU and the USSR

Reader's Notes

Vol 6 No 2/3 Summer 1966
Essays on Revolutionary Marxism in Britain and Ireland from the 1930s to the 1960s

Editorial

Ciaran Crossey & James Monaghan : The Origins of Trotskyism in Ireland
John Archer : CLR James in Britain, 1932-38
Paul Flewers : Cornering the Chameleons, Stalinism & Trotskyism in Britain 1939 - 41
John McIlroy, 'The First Great Battle in the March to Socialism', Dockers, Stalinists and Trotskyists in 1945
Alan Christianson : The revolutionary Communist Party and the Shop Stewards
Sam Levy : A Footnote for Historians
Ellis Hillman and the Fourth International
Anon : The Disunity of Theory and Practice
Mike Jones : Some Recently Discovered Material on Rosa Luxemburg and Leo Jogiches
Rosa Luxemburg : Letters on Bolshevism and the Russian Revolution
A Tribute to Ryan Worrall (Probably the first British supporter of the 'state capitalism' theory)

Readers Notes

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