Trotsky and the Russian Revolution Contributor(s): Swain, Geoffrey (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415736676 ISBN-13: 9780415736671 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $178.20 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Russia & The Former Soviet Union - History | Modern - 20th Century - Biography & Autobiography |
Dewey: B |
LCCN: 2013031878 |
Series: Seminar Studies |
Physical Information: 192 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Russia - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Supporters of Stalin saw Trotsky as a traitor and renegade. Trotsky's own supporters saw him as the only true Leninist. In Trotsky and the Russian Revolution, Geoffrey Swain restores Trotsky to his real and central role in the Russian Revolution. In this succinct and comprehensive study, Swain contests that:
As well as examining Trotsky's critique of Stalin's Russia in the 1930s, this seminar reader probes deeper to explore the ideas which drove Trotsky forward during his years of influence over Russia's revolutionary politics, exploring such key concepts as how to construct a revolutionary party, how to stage a successful insurrection, how to fight a revolutionary war, and how to build a socialist state. |