The New Course

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The New Course is a 1923 political work by Leon Trotsky in which he critiques the emerging bureaucratization of the Soviet state and party after the Russian Revolution.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
political work
advocates defense of revolutionary principles of 1917
inner-party democracy
workers’ control
aimsTo defend revolutionary democracy in the Soviet state
warn against consolidation of a privileged bureaucracy
associatedWith intra-party struggle after Lenin’s illness
author Leon Trotsky
countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
criticizes bureaucratic tendencies in the Communist Party
concentration of power in party leadership
emerging Soviet bureaucracy
tendencies toward one‑party dictatorship within the party
discusses party factionalism
problems of party leadership
relationship between party and working class
role of youth in the Communist Party
form collection of articles and essays
genre Marxist literature
political theory
hasAuthorRole Trotsky as leading Bolshevik
hasEnglishTitle The New Course
hasNotableTheme conflict between rank-and-file and party apparatus
danger of bureaucratic caste formation
degeneration of revolutionary parties
historicalContext early 1920s Soviet Union
post–Russian Civil War period
ideologicalBasis Leninism as interpreted by Trotsky
influenced later Trotskyist critiques of Stalinism
language Russian
mainSubject Bolshevik Party democracy
Russian Revolution
bureaucratization of the Communist Party
bureaucratization of the Soviet state
internal politics of the Soviet Union
originalTitle Новый курс
politicalOrientation Marxist
Trotskyist
publicationYear 1923
relatedTo Bolshevik Party debates of the 1920s
Left Opposition in the Soviet Union
Soviet Communist Party internal opposition
timePeriodDescribed early New Economic Policy era
workType non-fiction

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Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
The New Course
hasEnglishTitle
Leon Trotsky
notableWork
The New Course ("Новый курс")
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