Reading notes: The Challenge of the Left Opposition (1923–25) By Leon Trotsky
The Challenge of the Left Opposition (1923–25) By Leon Trotsky FIRST LETTER TO THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE October 8, 1923 NOTE: In the autumn of 1923 the economic crisis reached a peak, with the "scissors"-the disparity between high industrial prices and low agricultural prices-opening to their widest point in early October. Seeking to force industry to lower prices, the government withheld credit from the nationalized enterprises. The immediate result was widespread unemployment and desperation in the cities and, in August and September, a massive strike wave, with the participatio... more »
Reading notes: The Challenge of the Left Opposition (1923–25) By Leon Trotsky
The Challenge of the Left Opposition (1923–25) By Leon Trotsky Overall context: *devastation of war and civil war 1914-1921 *failure of German revolution My underlinings for the introduction are below: Introduction [1974] [Twelfth Party Congress scheduled for April 1923] ....Trotsky hesitated to open fire at the Twelfth Congress, fearing that his move would be interpreted as a bid for the position of Lenin's successor, and hoping that Lenin would recover sufficiently to lead the struggle in person. ....Stalinists, who had played lesser parts in the revolution but were the pr... more »
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