Trotsky's Third Chapter on the Development of Russian Cities and Cities

Trotsky on the development of russian cities and towns. He says they were little more than administrative outposts, either serving a military function or as a home base for tax collection. They produced almost nothing and were neither economically creative nor producers of independent wealth. Bourgeois democratic revolution is premised on the existence of an energetic, wealthy and ambitious bourgeoisie ready to burst out of the fetters of feudal constraint. But that class simply did not exist in russia at the beginning of the twentieth century. When modern capitalist development finally did take place in russia it was actuallyfin anced by foreign capital.