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The Revolution Betrayed

Leon Trotsky

Paperback | Pages: 240 pages

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Original Title:	Преданная революция: Что такое СССР и куда он идет?
ISBN:	0486433986 (ISBN13: 9780486433981)
Edition Language:	English URL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trotsky

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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.

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Title	:	The Revolution Betrayed
Author	:	Leon Trotsky
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 240 pages
Published	:	February 20th 2004 by Dover Publications (first published 1937)
Categories	:	History. Politics. Nonfiction. Philosophy. Cultural. Russia

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Trotsky has some wild views about "political revolution against the bureaucracy" that as far as I know weren't at all in touch with Soviet reality (and, perhaps more importantly, would not have stopped the unraveling and stagnation of the planned economy by the 70s/80s due to the Soviet Union's isolation and underdeveloped production). That being said, I actually really enjoyed this book and found it to be a prescient analysis of what the Soviet Union was at the time. Not nearly as

Its the usual Trotsky dribble. What do you expect?

This is a most excellent book for all of those who want to know the difference between False Communism and true Communism, International Freedom Fighter Leon Trotsky un-masks the Hypocrisy of the Stalinist Dictatorship in Russia after the Death of Lenin.

Ghastly book by one of the few men who might've made the Soviet Union even worse than it was under Stalin.

Those who worship the established fact can't prepare for the future.

His analysis of the Soviet Union's development from the Great October Revolution's inception is a surprisingly well-balanced, materialist one. Going into the book, judging from (my copy's) picture of a scowling Stalin and the title (which I've heard was originally when Trotsky wrote it "The Revolution Deformed"), I imagined it was going to be anti-communist ravings, when it wasn't. The Trotsky I was familiar with until actually reading what he had to say, as opposed to Trotskyist parties of the

Excellent overview of how the bureacracy of the Soviet Union, embodied by Stalin, became a force in itself, which strangled any possible growth towards worker socialism. By the time this book was written, Trotsky was keenly aware of the upcoming world war, and the possible outcomes.