<P>Supporters of Stalin saw Trotsky as a traitor and renegade. Trotsky¿s own supporters saw him as the only true Leninist. In <I>Trotsky and the Russian Revolution</I>, Geoffrey Swain restores Trotsky to his real and central role in the Russian Revolution. In this succinct and comprehensive study, Swain contests that:</P><UL><P><LI>In 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.</LI><P></P><P><LI>During 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.</LI><P></P><P><LI>During 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.</LI><P></P></UL><P>As well as examining Trotsky¿s critique of Stalin¿s Russia in the 1930s, this seminar reader probes deeper
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