Trotsky As Alternative Book

1	Trotsky's Place in the Twentieth Century	1
2	Trotsky's Internationalism	13
3	Trotsky's Struggle against the Stalinist Bureaucracy	32
4	Trotsky's Alternative Economic Strategy	59
	The Historical Background	60
	The Economic Platform of the 1923 Left Opposition	61
	The Economic Proposals of the United Opposition, 1926-27	64
	Trotsky's Struggle against the Adventurous Course of the Stalin Faction from 1929 to 1933	66
	Trotsky's Economic Policy in the Period 1934-40	69
5	Class Self-organization and Vanguard Party	73
	The Dangers of a Centralized Vanguard Party in the Absence of Class Self-organization	74
	The Dangers of a Decline in Mass Activity in the Absence of a Vanguard Party	77
	1917-19: The Synthesis of Soviet Power and Vanguard Organization	78
	The 'Dark Years' 1920-21: Trotsky's 'Substitutionism'	81
	Internal Party Democracy as a Bridge to Soviet Democracy	84
	The Final Synthesis	86
6	Trotsky and the Liberation Movement in the Third World	91
7	Trotsky's Struggle against Fascism	106
	What is Specific about Fascism?	107
	Fascism and the Petty Bourgeoisie	108
	Fascism, the Petty Bourgeoisie and Big Business	111
	Big Business and Fascism	113
	Fascism and the Working Class	116
	Fascism and Bonapartism	118
	Trotsky's Struggle for the Workers' United Front	120
	The Workers' United Front and the Popular Front	121
8	Trotsky as Military Leader	127
	Old and New Myths	127
	The Creator of the Red Army	128
	Civil War as Class War	130
	The Myth of the 'Militarization of Labour'	132
	The Militia and Election of Officers	134
9	Trotsky and the National Question	137
	The National Question at the Twelfth Party Congress of the Russian Communist Party	137
	The Independence of Soviet Ukraine	139
	Self-determination for the Black People of the USA	140
	Self-determination of the Black Population of South Africa	141
	The Right of Self-determination of the Catalan Nation	142
	For a Balkan Federation	142
	The Nationality Problem in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy	143
10	Trotsky and the Jewish Question	146
11	Trotsky as Literary Critic	157
12	Trotsky the Man	165
	Index	177