Meanwhile, Stalin displayed modesty and simple-minded ... the present members of the party had joined it only after the October revolution. “I must defend Trotsky from Trotsky,” Stalin replied ...

The guiding perspective of the Russian Revolution in October 1917 was Trotsky’s Theory ... from many “Old Bolsheviks”, including Joseph Stalin, Gregory Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev who, like ...

Less than five years before the start of the Irish Civil War, the fratricidal terror that followed Russia’s October 1917 ...

Analyzing the contradictions that governed the existence of the bureaucracy as a privileged caste within a workers’ state, Trotsky established that the conquests of the 1917 October Revolution ...

The replacement by a provisional government provided ineffective governance and the platform for the Bolsheviks to seize power in the October revolution. October Revolution - Causes, events ...

The biography begins with the 1905 revolution in Moscow ... The second part of the book focuses on Vavilov's fall from Josef Stalin's favor, which eventually led to Vavilov's arrest, and the ...