Stalinism and the defeat of the workers - North London AWL branch meeting
Submitted on 22 February, 2008 - 12:48
11 Mar 2008 - 7:30pm
11 Mar 2008 - 9:30pm
Location:
Red Rose, 127 Seven Sisters Road, near Finsbury Park tube (Picc/Victoria)
Description:
North London's AWL branch meetings are open to all. At the moment we are doing a series on the life and work of Leon Trotsky. This week the focus is on the defeat of the Russian Revolution by Stalinism.
Trotsky argues that Stalinism was not the logical product of Bolshevism, but represented a bureaucratic counter-revolution against the Russian working class - separated from Bolshevism by "a river of blood"
Suggested reading: The Revolution Betrayed (1936) - http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1936/revbet/index.htm. Short reading: chapter 11: Whither the Soviet Union?
For more info contact David Broder - 07828 844695/davidthetrot@googlemail.com