What was the lesson of this catastrophe? Stalin’s political opponents — notably the Trotskyites — laid it to his willful departure from Lenin’s principles and charged him with having ...
The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet conferred on Tovarish Stalin the Order of Lenin and gave him the title of “Hero of Socialist Labor.” Shop committees, laborers’ clubs, Soviets ...
He lives there in internal exile for a year before being banished from the USSR forever by Stalin. Trotsky, born of Jewish-Russian parents, was first arrested by the czarist government for ...