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The challenge of the Left Opposition, 1926-27

By Allen , Léon , Naomi; Trotsky

Book information

Publisher
Pathfinder Press
Year
2003
ISBN
9780873485678, 087348567X
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (11358510 bytes)
Series
1
Pages
621\706
Topic
History
Time added
2019-08-02 02:11:54
Communism -- Soviet Union;Soviet Union -- Politics

Description

The second of three volumes documenting the struggle in the Soviet Union in the 1920s led by Leon Trotsky to defend V.I. Lenin's proletarian internationalist course against the counterrevolutionary policies of Joseph Stalin and the privileged caste he spoke for. This volume covers the period of the United Opposition bloc of Trotsky with Gregory Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev. It takes up the debate over "socialism in one country" vs. organizing to extend the world revolution; the battle to maintain the worker-peasant alliance; the threat of a new war against the Soviet Union by the imperialist powers; the growing use of slander, falsification, and violence by Stalin's backers to intimidate and silence the working class vanguard; and much more.

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