Stalinism and Bolshevism
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| - | What happened to the Russian Revolution? How did Stalin come to power? Is Stalinism inevitable? In this pamphlet Trotsky shows the roots of the Stalinist bureaucracy were not in the victory of the Bolsheviks in the revolution of October 1917, but lay in the conditions of backwardness which followed the isolation of the revolution to Russia, and the destruction of four years of civil war. | + | What happened to the Russian Revolution? |
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| + | In this pamphlet Trotsky shows the roots of the Stalinist bureaucracy were not in the victory of the Bolsheviks in the revolution of October 1917, but lay in the conditions of backwardness which followed the isolation of the revolution to Russia, and the destruction of four years of civil war. | ||
Stalinism represented not the development of Bolshevism but a political counter-revolution, bringing forth the task of a new political revolution, to restore workers democracy to the state and economy. | Stalinism represented not the development of Bolshevism but a political counter-revolution, bringing forth the task of a new political revolution, to restore workers democracy to the state and economy. | ||
