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Dictatorship vs. Democracy

by Leon Trotsky (1879–1940)

Portrait of Leon Trotsky
Rijksmuseum · CC0

30 chapters, about 67,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

  1. IN PLACE OF AN EPILOGUE 188 1,700 words
  2. PREFACE 1,400 words
  3. Introduction 1,700 words
  4. THE BALANCE OF POWER 2,800 words
  5. THE DICTATORSHIP OF THE PROLETARIAT 2,700 words
  6. "EITHER DEMOCRACY, OR CIVIL WAR" 1,300 words
  7. THE IMPERIALIST TRANSFORMATION OF DEMOCRACY 2,100 words
  8. THE METAPHYSICS OF DEMOCRACY 1,800 words
  9. THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY 1,900 words
  10. TERRORISM 3,500 words
  11. "FREEDOM OF THE PRESS" 2,200 words
  12. THE INFLUENCE OF THE WAR 1,100 words
  13. THE PARIS COMMUNE AND SOVIET RUSSIA 4,000 words
  14. THE DEMOCRATIC COMMUNE AND THE REVOLUTIONARY DICTATORSHIP 3,700 words
  15. MARX AND ... KAUTSKY. 2,300 words
  16. THE RUSSIAN PROLETARIAT 2,300 words
  17. SOVIETS, TRADE UNIONS, AND THE PARTY 2,500 words
  18. THE PEASANT POLICY 1,600 words
  19. THE SOVIET GOVERNMENT AND THE EXPERTS 1,600 words
  20. THE INTERNAL POLICY OF THE SOVIET GOVERNMENT 2,500 words
  21. THE SOVIET GOVERNMENT AND INDUSTRY 1,700 words
  22. REPORT ON THE ORGANIZATION OF LABOR 400 words
  23. COMPULSORY LABOR SERVICE 1,400 words
  24. THE MILITARIZATION OF LABOR 4,900 words
  25. LABOR ARMIES 2,400 words
  26. THE SINGLE ECONOMIC PLAN 1,500 words
  27. COLLEGIATE AND ONE-MAN MANAGEMENT 1,500 words
  28. CONCLUSION OF THE REPORT 3,900 words
  29. KARL KAUTSKY, HIS SCHOOL AND HIS BOOK. 3,700 words
  30. IN PLACE OF AN EPILOGUE 1,000 words

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