STALIN ADOPTED TROTSKY’S AGRARIAN PROGRAM BECAUSE TIME WAS RIGHT Instead, in 1927-1928, Stalin astonished everybody by adopting much of the Trotskyist agrarian program he had […]
Category: Soviet Union
Industrialisation
AMERICAN ENGINEERS SUPPORT 5 YEAR PLAN American engineers who came to help build the new industries often said that the five-year plan was “utterly logical,” […]
Opposition 1924-1927
Return to the Real Stalin Series. GREAT FREEDOM GIVEN TO THE OPPOSITION Footnote: The public propaganda of the Opposition exploited every possible kind of political […]
Lenin’s Testament
TROTSKY OPPOSED BOLSHEVIKS Trotsky’s experience in the Russian working-class movement prior to 1917 was essentially the experience of an emigre. From the outset of his […]
Time of NEP
TROTSKY TRIED TO SUCCEED LENIN AND FAILED BADLY Immediately after Lenin’s death, Trotsky made his open bid for power. At the Party Congress in May […]
October Revolution
October Revolution BOLSHEVIKS SUPERIOR TO MENSHEVIKS The 150,000 members with which they began 1907 dwindled to a few thousand, while the correspondingly depressing movement among […]
Kim Il Sung on the Collapse of The Soviet Union
“The former Soviet Union began to collapse after the modern revisionists took power. They abandoned the principles of party building and systematically weakened the party. […]