unevenandcombined.com: Trotsky Digest U&CD: a Trotsky Digest With the exception of the opening chapter of The History of the Russian Revolution, Trotsky nowhere provides a concentrated exposition of the idea of uneven and combined development. Instead, materials relevant to the idea are found scattered widely across his works – a paragraph here, a sentence there, sometimes just a suggestive phrase almost hidden by a surrounding mass of irrelevant polemics. This document assembles a variety of such materials which I have found useful for thinking about the idea. The materials are arranged by source (rather than thematically). And the sources themselves are arranged chronologically, with dates in parentheses to indicate when the texts were written. Words in square brackets are not Trotsky’s. This document is not a substitute for reading the originals, but it may help direct you to passages of special relevance. Note that the critical remarks by James Burnham on pages 20-21, though republished in a volume of Trotsky’s writings, are of course by Burnham himself. If you have any suggestions for additional passages to include, please email them to me, with the full references, at
[email protected] 1 unevenandcombined.com: Trotsky Digest Contents 1 Results and Prospects (1906) in The Permanent Revolution and Results and Prospects, translated by Brian Pearce, London, New Park Publications: 1962. 3 2 1905, (1908-9/1922) translated by Anya Bostock, Harmondsworth, Penguin: 1973. 6 3 Leon Trotsky on Britain, (1925-28) introduced by George Novack, New York, Monad Press: 1973. 8 4 The Third International After Lenin (1929) translated by John G.