The transition to socialism

Karl Kautsky

pp. 126-150

in: Karl Kautsky, Selected political writings, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 1983

Abstract

Kautsky continued his attack on the Bolshevik Revolution in Terrorismus und Kommunismus (Berlin, 1919), which was answered by Trotsky's work of the same title; his only direct experience of Bolshevik methods was summarised in Georgia, a Social-Democratic Peasant Republic (Vienna, 1921), which in its turn drew forth merited criticism from Trotsky in Social Democracy and the Wars of Intervention in Russia (1918–1921) (1922; translated as Between Red and White, London, 1975). Kautsky's final word in this controversy was Von der Demokratie zur Staatssklaverie (Berlin, 1921).