This priceless historical document by the Bolshevik leader features firsthand accounts from the top levels of the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917. Trotsky chronicles the struggle to consolidate a government run by workers and peasants, along with the rift between Lenin and Stalin and its political consequences.
One of Marxism's most important texts, The Revolution Betrayed explores the fate of the Russian Revolution after Lenin's death. Written in 1936 and published the following year, this brilliant and profound evaluation of Stalinism from the Marxist standpoint prophesied the collapse of the Soviet Union and subsequent related events. The effects of the October Revolution led to the establishment of a nationalized planned economy, demonstrating the practicality of socialism for the first time. By the 1930s, however, the Soviet workers' democracy had crumbled into a state of bureaucratic decay that ultimately gave rise to an infamous totalitarian regime. Trotsky employs facts, figures, and statistics to show how Stalinist policies rejected the enormous productive potential of the nationalized planned economy in favor of a wasteful and corrupt bureaucratic system. Six decades after the publication of this classic, the shattering of Stalinist regimes in Russia and Eastern Europe has confused and demoralized countless political activists. The Revolution Betrayed offers readers of every political persuasion an insider's view of what went wrong.
Kniha Lva Trockého pojednává o tzv. permanentní revoluci, což byla teze, kterou tento revolucionář obohatil leninismus. Neblahé důsledky této myšlenky sklízejí ještě dnes mnozí, kteří jsou pozůstalými těch, kteří se nechali indoktrinovat. Revoluce požírá své děti, a nejinak skončil i Trockij, který byl zavražděn Stalinovým agentem ve vyhnanství v Mexiku.
Úvodem dopis Fernonanda Peroutky nakladateli českého překladu. Rejstřík sestavil V. Váňa.
Úvodem dopis Fernonanda Peroutky nakladateli českého překladu. Rejstřík sestavil V. Váňa.
