{"product_id":"trotsky-and-the-russian-revolution-hardback","title":"Trotsky and the Russian Revolution - Hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003eSupporters of Stalin saw Trotsky as a traitor and renegade. Trotsky’s own supporters saw him as the only true Leninist. In \u003ci\u003eTrotsky and the Russian Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e, Geoffrey Swain restores Trotsky to his real and central role in the Russian Revolution. In this succinct and comprehensive study, Swain contests that:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003eIn the years between 1903 and 1917, it was the ideas of Trotsky, rather than Lenin, which shaped the nascent Bolshevik Party and prepared it for the overthrow of the Tsar.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003eDuring the autumn of 1917 workers supported Trotsky’s idea of an insurrection carried out by the soviet, rather than Lenin’s demand for a party orchestrated coup d’etat.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003eDuring the Russian Civil War, Trotsky persuaded a sceptical Lenin that the only way to victory was through the employment of officers trained in the Tsar’s army.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45564290826478,"sku":"9780415736671","price":227.2,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780415736671.jpg?v=1720667169","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/trotsky-and-the-russian-revolution-hardback","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}