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The subject of this book is, it would seem, sufficiently defined by its title; and the substantive issues which it proposes to deal with in the framework of a study of Leon Trotsky's social and political thought are set out in the introduction which follows this preface. Here I wish to describe the motives for undertaking such a study, the approach to the subject adopted, the problems encountered, and the manner of their resolution. This study has had its origins in the present writer's interest in the relationship between ideas and historical events in general, and between Marxist ideas and the Russian Revolution of 1917 in particular. To speak of such a relationship is to speak not only of the correspondence between ideas and events; as often as not, it is to dwell on the divergence and conflict between the two and on the significance of this. Trotsky once wrote that the 'ideas and aims of those engaged in revolutionary struggle form a very important constituent element of a revolution'. 1 With this I fully agree. Although Marxism. has traditionally frowned upon the notion that ideas shape history, the events of October 1917 and thereafter can hardly be comprehended outside the c

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Author

Baruch Knei-Paz

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

1980

Language

EN

ISBN

9780198272335

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Social Science, Social_sciences