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311: 391: 1436: – "What is the Soviet Union and Where is it Going?" – accurately summarized the author's intent behind the book. Trotsky was preoccupied with the question of whether the emerging bureaucratic political and economic formation in the USSR constituted a new social model not encompassed previously by Marxist doctrine. Knei-Paz asserted that while Trotsky insisted that the Soviet system did not constitute any such new social and economic system, in reality the analysis he presented in 1351: 1375: 1363: 1444:
power, agricultural output, industry, etc. It then proceeds to describe the limits on this economic advance, the nature of the new ruling elite, and predicts the ultimate downfall of the Soviet Union as a result of Stalinist rule. It places an emphasis on a Marxist method of analysis, and makes several key observations and predictions, some of which would only be borne out many decades later.
334:. Norwegian politics intervened before Trotsky was able to obtain this document, however, and the visa approval was revoked by the time Trotsky arrived at the embassy on June 10. French police, suspecting a ruse by Trotsky to obtain residence in Paris, from which he had been banned, immediately ordered Trotsky out of the city. Trotsky's planned voyage to Norway was abruptly canceled. 1455:'s policy of at first opposing voluntary collectivization and increasing privatization of land and then of an abrupt reversal of policy towards rapid industrialization and forced collectivization, which Trotsky brands "economic adventurism" that carried "the nation to the edge of disaster". Trotsky then discusses labor productivity and criticizes the uselessness of the 362:). When Trotsky became aware of the trial, which would ultimately end in the execution of Grigory Zinoviev, Lev Kamenev, and other prominent Soviet political figures, a short postscript was tagged on to his introduction in which Trotsky claimed that his current book constituted "advance exposure" of the Stalin regime's effort at "deliberate mystification". 29: 1470:, when conservative forces took hold of society). He analyzes the triumph of Stalin, the separation of the party from Bolshevism, and the rising bureaucratic stratum. The importance of this chapter lies in Trotsky's observation that the ruling stratum in the USSR are neither capitalists nor workers, but rather a section of the 1443:
The book is a wide-ranging critique of the USSR and its rulers, and advocates a new political revolution to overthrow the Stalinist dictatorship and bring about a socialist democracy. It opens by praising the positive economic advances of the USSR since the death of Lenin, citing growth in electrical
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Although separated from his dwindling band of committed followers in the USSR, Trotsky continued to function as an opposition political leader from exile throughout the rest of his life. This ongoing political activity against the regime headed by Joseph Stalin led to ongoing political pressure by
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Over the next several years Trotsky and his supporters were successively marginalized and isolated by the evolving Soviet leadership group, with Trotsky demonized as a political oppositionist and his supporters undermined by political and police pressure. This process was accentuated by successive
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Norwegian authorities demanded that Trotsky obtain a permit for reentry into France before a visa for travel to Norway would be granted. Finally, after a burst of correspondence and negotiation, the demand for an unobtainable French re-entry permit was dropped and Trotsky was allowed a limited
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Lenin's retirement from active political life in the aftermath of a series of strokes in 1923 followed by his death in January 1924 ushered in an interregnum during which several leading candidates jockeyed for supremacy. Lenin's longtime associate and
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six-month visa to enter Norway. As was the case with the terms previously set by the French government, the Norwegian government reserved for itself the right to determine Trotsky's place of residence and to exclude him from the capital city of
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One of the predictions made by Trotsky was that the USSR would come before a disjuncture: either the toppling of the ruling bureaucracy by means of a political revolution, or capitalist restoration led by the bureaucracy:
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The fall of the present bureaucratic dictatorship, if it were not replaced by a new socialist power, would thus mean a return to capitalist relations with a catastrophic decline of industry and culture.
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government in power. The Norwegian response was slow, and only in early June was Trotsky at last notified that his request had been granted and that he was to proceed to the Norwegian embassy in
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and his capture of the French state after that country's revolution. Just as Bonaparte brought back the trappings of the aristocracy and imprisoned capitalists despite presiding over a new
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October 25], 1917, taking over as head of the Petrograd Soviet early in October and building that institution's Military-Revolutionary Committee into a revolutionary fighting force.
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This prediction was made at a time when most commentators, capitalist and Stalinist, predicted the continued rise of Soviet power. As Allin Cottrell and
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was completed and sent to the publisher on August 4, 1936, immediately prior to the sensational public announcement of the first of three great public
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has been characterized by historian Baruch Knei-Paz as Trotsky's "major work on Stalinism" and constituted the chief
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Vladimir Iu. Cherniaev, "Trotsky", in Edward Acton, Vladimir Iu. Cherniaev, and William G. Rosenberg (eds.),
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wing of the RSDLP to advocating for the unity of the warring factions in 1913 with the establishment of the
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He next discusses everyday life in the Soviet Union, economic inequality and the oppression of the new
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The first few chapters examine the "zigzags", as Trotsky describes them, in the policy pursued by the
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the Soviet government against a series of host countries in which Trotsky had sought exile.
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Following the successful overthrow of the Kerensky government, Trotsky was named the first
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helped to motivate the Mezhraiontsy to make amends with their Bolshevik rivals, headed by
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Leon Trotsky (Lev Davidovich Bronstein, 1879–1940) was one of the leaders of the
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followed the next year by Trotsky's physical expulsion from the Soviet Union to
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in 1924 and is regarded as Trotsky's primary work dealing with the nature of
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The best survey of Soviet high politics in this period remains E. H. Carr,
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For Trotsky's activity in the St. Petersburg Soviet, see Gerald D. Suhr,
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The Revolution Betrayed: What is the Soviet Union and Where is it Going?
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that would defend the new regime against anti-Bolshevik factions in the
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The virtual collapse of the old regime during the latter part of
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generated by the secret police terror known to history as the "
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In the view of Knei-Paz, the subtitle chosen by Trotsky for
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In the spring of 1935 a beleaguered Trotsky formally sought
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Malcolm Campbell, translator. (London: Carl Slieger, 1977).
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Critical Companion to the Russian Revolution, 1914–1921.
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Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1978; p. 381; fn. 39.
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1905 in St. Petersburg: Labor, Society, and Revolution.
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exiles of Trotsky, first in 1928 to the remote city of
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theoretician and revolutionary, Trotsky was exiled to
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After Ten Years: On Trotsky’s The Revolution Betrayed
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Vladimir Lenin
Stalinism
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Victor Serge
Max Eastman
October Revolution
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Saint Petersburg Soviet
Menshevik
Mezhraiontsy
World War I
Vladimir Lenin
Russian Provisional Government
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