Lenin and Trotsky: What They Really Stood For Subject_Fourth International Woods uncovers the fascinating growth

Woods uncovers the fascinating growth and development of Bolshevism in pre-revolutionary Russia up to the seizure of power in October 1917

Trotsky's narrative moves from his childhood to his education in the "universities" of Tsarist prisons

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By fighting in a united front against Kornilov

it contains the earliest authoritative account of the rise of Stalinism and the expulsion of the Left Opposition

Lenin and Trotsky: What They Really Stood For Subject_Fourth International Woods uncovers the fascinating growthThe ideas of Lenin and Trotsky are without doubt the most distorted and slandered in history. For more than 80 years an onslaught from the apologists of capitalism has attempted to present their ideas Bolshevism as both totalitarian and utopian. An entire industry was developed to equate the crimes of Stalinism with the regime of workers' democracy that existed under Lenin and Trotsky. It is now more than thirty years since the publication of the