The specific feature of Russia is that the country ispassingfrom the first stage of the revolution, to itssecond stage. ..…

The famous debate of 1924–27 about Soviet economic prospects and the international revolution—and the political battle that followed it—devolved around the left, led by Trotsky (who essentially represented the Bolshevik old guard), against the center and the right of the party led by..…

A recent study by a more careful historian, Alexander Rabinowitch, has concluded that, on the contrary, it was not the product of “a nationwide political crackdown inspired by Lenin,” but “the culmination of a gradual process during which the moderating influence of…key individuals…was replaced by..…