Once again I forward the latest update from the Marxists Internet Archive.

Comrades might like to pay particular attention to the appeal made in the
second item (Lysenko).

Julian Wells

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18 May, 2002:
The Encyclopedia of Marxism has uploaded two new, very thoroughly researched
terms:

  Theory & Practice
  Left & Right Wing
http://www.marxists.org/glossary/frame.htm
[Thanks to Andy Blunden and Brian Basgen]

17 May, 2002:
In an effort to archive documents related to Marxism and natural science, a
new
section for the works of Soviet biologist Trofim Denisovich Lysenko has
added to
the Reference Writers Archive. It opens with two works that outline
Lysenko's
rejection of the chromosome theory of heredity, favoring changes to plants
induced by environmental influences:

  Soviet Biology: Report by Lysenko to the Lenin Academy of Agricultural
Sciences, 1948
  New Developments in the Science of Biological Species, 1950.
http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/lysenko/index.htm

Those with an interest in Marxism and natural science are encouraged to
email
[log in to unmask] with advice and suggestions.

17 May, 2002:
The Karl Kautsky Internet Archive has added two articles: Practical Work in
Parliament, 1908, on the futility of socialists focusing on parliamentary
reforms, and Must the Proletariat Degenerate?, 1909, a defense of Marxist
theory
against Tugan-Baranowsky.
http://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/index.htm
[Thanks to Sally Ryan]

16 May, 2002:
The Polish Language Leon Trotsky Internet Archive has begun work on
Trotsky's
autobiography, My Life. Available are:

  Table of Contents
  Foreword
http://www.marxists.org/polski/Trochi/index.htm
[Thanks to Cezary Cholewinski]

16 May, 2002:
The Leon Trotsky Internet Archive has added a PDF version of Trotsky's
must-read
1939, ABCs of Materialist Dialectics.
http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1939/1939-abc.pdf
[Thanks to Dimitri Verstraeten]

16 May, 2002:
The Leon Trotsky Internet Archive has started work on Volume III of the
Military
Writings of Leon Trotsky: How the Revolution Armed. Volumes 1 and 2 have
already
been completed. This Volume brings us up to 1920, into the 3rd year of
October
Revolution. 1920?year of the war with Poland. In the early months, the Red
Army?s victories against the White Guards won a breathing-space in which it
turned to assist in the reconstruction of the war-torn economy. The first
Labour
Armies were formed under Trotsky's direction. Then came the Polish
offensive.
The Soviet Republic replied by swelling the ranks of the Red Army to five
million and launching the contentious march on Warsaw. Beaten back outside
the
Polish capital, the Soviet forces nonetheless regained lost territories'
enabled
the Bolsheviks to conclude a peace, and proceeded in the South to sweep the
counter-revolutionary Wrangel into the sea. The third in a five-volume
series,
this book is part of an imperishable record of the struggle to defend the
Soviet
state in the years following the Russian Revolution. Long suppressed in the
Soviet Union, these writings and speeches of the leader of the Red Army are
here
published on the Internet for the first time.
http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1920-mil/index.htm
[Thanks to Index Books and David Walters]

15 May , 2002:
From the Marx-Engels Internet Archive: 27 letters from Marx and Engels for
the
year 1859 have been added to the Marx-Engels archive. This now completes the
correspondence for the 1850s including:

The Selected Correspondence for the 1850s
1859 is the year in which Marx completed the "First Version of Capital", the
"Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy", and changed the
sequence of
categories to start with the Commodity. Many of the letters in this group
concern the completion of the Critique and Marx's efforts to get it
published.
In this letter, Marx instructs Engels on what are the two main points he
must
make in reviewing the book, and we learn that Liebknecht said never has a
book
disappointed him so much.
There is also a large number of letters to Lassalle covering a range of
topics.
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/letters/date/1850s.htm
[Thanks to Andy Blunden]

13 May, 2002:
The Leon Trotsky Internet Archive has added Trotsky's collected letters to
Marxists in Belgium from 1927 trough 1937. Special thanks to the comrades at
Revolutionary History magazine in London for permission to use these
valuable
translations.
http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/index.htm
[Thanks to Ted Crawford and David Walters]


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