Word: trotzkyism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From this moment, there began a bombardment on his character and his dangerous heterodox leanings, led by Kamenev, Zinoviev, Stalin, Dzerzhinsky and others who did not stop at calling him the "Little Corporal." The gist of this attack was that Trotzky was trying to substitute Trotzkyism for Leninism. It was alleged, according to an official document, that his attacks "had been interpreted by the bourgeoisie and the Social Democrats [Menshevists] as a sign of a split within the Russian Communist Party, and consequently as the disruption of the dictatorship of the proletariat"; that he had "declared war against the very...
...previously: "We will have no pity for the peasants; we will make labor armies of them, with military discipline and Communists as their chiefs." But in his letter of defense, published last January in the Isvestia and the Prarda, he said : "Great political significance is attached to this term [Trotzkyism] in relation to the peasant question. I repudiate emphatically the assumption that the formula 'permanent revolution' was used by me as denoting lack of care in handling the peasant question." And he goes on to defend himself against the charge that he was seeking to create a personal platform...
...Lord Trotzky is reported to have written to the Committee expressing his great regret that he could not be present. In this letter, which was probably modified to suit the Triumvirate, Trotzky declared that "Trotzkyism" (criticism of the Communist Party) was a spent political force and that he had had no idea that his book "1917" was to be made use of on political platforms...
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