Word: trotskyism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Commissar for Heavy Industry he was called "The World's Biggest Businessman." Certainly he was one of J. Stalin's two or three closest friends. The recent trial shifted any blame for the present lagging of Soviet Heavy Industry from Ordzhonikidze to the "Trotskyism" of his Vice-Commissar, Grigoriy Piatakov, who was sentenced to death. Piatakov was not only one of the very biggest Reds but a warm and human character by comparison with the cold, brusque Ordzhonikidze. Russia has long been a land of personal vengeance and Piatakov was the kind of man whose Russian friends would...
...Stalin, has for years delivered such pungent judgments as, "No Government in the world is corroded by such internal abject fear as the Stalin Dictatorship." TIME repeats that his dynamic fact-marshaling has consistently been antiStalinist, which in official Moscow's view is always the chief evidence of "Trotskyism." (See Red Smoke by Isaac Don Levine-McBride, 1932, $2.) As to who first interviewed Joseph Stalin, the technically prior claims of able, Russian-speaking Yale Professor Jerome Davis and an earlier Japanese as well as a German correspondent have been noted (TIME, Jan. 8, 1934), but Nikolai Lenin...
...headlines and dispatches which, from the outbreak of the Bolshevist revolution in 1917 to the expulsion from Russia of Trotsky in 1929 made his name a household word in even land and stamped Bolshevism for all time with the trademark of "Lenin & Trotsky," but not everyone today could define Trotskyism...
Trotsky urged the industrialization oi Russia, and that was "Trotskyism" until he had been kicked out and it became Stalinism. Trotsky urged regimentation oi the Russian peasantry by the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, the peasants to be uprooted from their little holdings and forced onto vast collective farms with tractor; replacing horses and Moscow able at any moment to shut off the gasoline if the peasants got obstreperous. That too was "Trotskyism," bitterly denounced by Stalin until, Trotsky having been ousted, it became and is today Stalinism...
...major premise of "Trotskyism" that Communism cannot be successful in a single country unless it simultaneously is fomented in all countries anc they become presently Communist. On this point, the acts of Stalin show his theory now to be that a success can be made oi Communism in one single country, namely the Soviet Union, and that the bulk of its funds should be devoted to achieving success there at this time, not scattered to sow Communism in other countries. These two points of view are generally accepted today as representing "Trotskyism," on the one hand, and Stalinism...