Leon Trotsky

The Permanent Revolution

(1931)

Transcribed and HTML markup for the Trotsky Internet Archive, a subarchive of the Marxist writers’ Internet Archive, by Sally Ryan in 1996.
Permanent Revolution was first published by the Left Opposition in Russian in Berlin in 1930.
First English and American editions of Permanent Revolution 1931, re-translated by John G. Wright, for Progress Publishers/Militant Publishing Association.

• Introduction to the First (Russian) Edition
   
• Introduction to the German Edition
   
• 1. The Enforced Nature of This Work and Its Aim
   
• 2. The Permanent Revolution is Not a “Leap” by the Proletariat, but the Reconstruction of the Nation under Leadership of the Proletariat
   
• 3. Three Elements of the “Democratic Dictatorship”: Classes, Tasks and Political Mechanics
   
• 4. What did the Theory of the Permanent Revolution Look Like in Practice?
   
• 5. Was the “Democratic Dictatorship” Realized in Our Country? If so, When?
   
• 6. On the Skipping of Historical Stages
   
• 7. What does the Slogan of the Democratic Dictatorship Mean Today for the East
   
• 8. From Marxism to Pacifism
   
• 9. Epilogue
   
• 10. What is the Permanent Revolution? Basic Postulates
   

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