The Degenerated Revolution: the origins and nature of the Stalinist states, 1982

• Introduction
• The transition from capitalism to communism
• From Soviet power to Soviet Bonapartism – the degeneration of the Russian revolution
• The survival and expansion of Stalinism after the Second World War
• Bureaucratic social revolutions and the Marxist theory of the state
• Tito and Mao: disobedient Stalinists
• The Yugoslavian events
• The Chinese Revolution
• Indochina’s long revolution
• Vietnam – North and South
• The case of ‘Democratic’ Kampuchea
• Castro’s ‘Cuban road’ – from populism to Stalinism
• The Permanent Revolution aborted
• Stalinism and the world working class
• The programme of the Political Revolution
• The defence of the USSR and of the degenerate workers’ states
• Centrism and Stalinism – the falsification of Trotsky’s analysis
• The Fourth International after the war
• Mandel’s ‘orthodox’ revisions
• Hansen and Cuba
• The theory of structural assimilation
• The Spartacist school of Stalinophilia