Stalin: 70 years after a tyrant’s death
Spectre of Communism
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The Failure of the World Revolution
The Soviet Union's agriculture never recovered from the forced collectivisation, it was an absolute disastrous policy. Nonetheless the planned economy had tremendous successes and on the industrial side of it they did following ten years were very successful in the Soviet Union. Cayman Evans and Oviève tried to form a block with Stalin but then capitulated again and went back to Stalin only to be executed in the purges in the 1930s. The importance of the failure of the world revolution because this really is the factor that Trotsky attributes to the defeats of the opposition and the victory of the Stalinists.
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