| 5 | Preface |
| I | |
| THE SOCIO-HISTORICAL ROLE OF THE WORKING CLASS AND THE BATTLE OF IDEAS | |
| 8 | [introduction.] |
| 9 | Contrasting Appraisals of the Working Class |
| 25 | The Controversy over the Concept of Class |
| 37 | Leading Force of Social Progress |
| II | |
| BOURGEOIS-REFORMIST VIEW ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROLETARIAT | |
| 58 | [introduction.] |
| 59 | Anti-Scientific Conceptions |
| 74 | Against Falsification of the History of the Working Class |
| III | |
| BASIC STAGES IN THE WORKING-CLASS MOVEMENT | |
| 87 | Periodisation of the Proletariat’s Revolutionary Emancipation Struggle |
| 98 | The October Socialist Revolution: a Radical Change in the International Working-Class Movement |
| IV | |
| THE WORKING CLASS AND THE GROWING CRISIS OF CAPITALISM | |
| 120 | Tendencies in the World Revolutionary Process |
| 129 | Growing Contradictions of Capitalism |
| 150 | Bourgeois Ideological Manoeuvres |
| V | |
| THE TRADITIONS OF THE CLASS STRUGGLE AND THE PRESENT DAY | |
| 157 | [introduction.] |
| 158 | Revolutionary Theory and Practice: Two Parts of a Single Whole |
| 185 | The Struggle for the Integrity of Revolutionary Theory |
| 209 | Against “Neo”-Kautskyism |
| 233 | On Non-Proletarian Utopias |
| 248 | Under the Banner of Revolutionary Internationalism |
| VI | |
| THE STUDY OF THE WORKING CLASS AND OF THE WORKERS’ MOVEMENT | |
| 257 | Aspects of the Development of Research on the Workers’ Movement |
| 273 | The Situation of the Proletariat in the USA and Its Struggle |
| 289 | The Working Class in the World Revolutionary Process |
| 301 | A Promising Field for International Cooperation among Scholars |
| 314 | NAME INDEX |
| 317 | GEOGRAPHICAL INDEX |
| 318 | SUBJECT INDEX |
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