Imprisoned many times, he escaped from exile in siberia in 1902 by using the name of a jailer called trotsky on a false passport. The first victory of a revolution in europe would pass like an electric shock through the soviet masses, straighten them up, raise their spirit of independence, awaken the traditions of 1905 and 1917, undermine the position of the bonapartist bureaucracy, and acquire for the fourth international no less significance than the october revolution. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Trotsky employs facts, figures, and statistics to show how stalinist policies rejected the enormous productive potential of the nationalized planned economy. What stalin did was carry on from where lenin left, he helped to make russia into a capitalist nation and seeing as nothing else was possible at that time he did. The revolution betrayed paperback by leon trotsky and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. The revolution betrayed by leon trotsky book resume. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 240 pages and is available in paperback format.
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