1. Model for Revolution Stalin v. Trotsky
What am I trying to do? To show you that a model exists that shows the pressures new societies experience in part it is to show that the process can be reversed through understanding
Trotsky’s: “Revolution Betrayed”
Applies to Russia, France, Nicaragua, Cuba…

2. Evolution of Revolution
Tyrany/despot: Elite, foreign ownership, army, inequality,
NEW ELITE’
Victory
State Capitalism creates prosperity for new elite
dependent on extremism/violence to retain privilege
conflict causes power struggle: Hardliners win - “end justifies the means”
-Amalgamation of opposition against Tyrant
-Rebellion overthrows Government and Tyrant
-Revolution creates new laws:
Land reform, social equity nationalizing, reform, export of ideas, and police
Interference from West in the form of:
Actual military intervention
Arms and legitimacy to the old regime’
Reduction of trade
Civil War

3. The Revolution Betrayed: Thermidor thesis
Stalin; the man of Social forces
Revolutions always turn conservative (Thermidor)
Death of Revolutionary fervor
Bureaucratization: consolidation of power
Defeat of international socialism
Even Lenin would have been overthrown
Left wingers arrested
Trotsky dies in Mexico in 1940 with an ice pick in his head.

4. Power struggle Stalin v. Trotsky three issues that separate the two men
Nationalism
Personality
Economics
“Socialism in one country” v. international revolution
Trotsky called for international revolution and Germany would help Russia develop. Stalin sensed that Russia was isolated and needed to create one communist nation.
Apparatchik v. fame
Trotsky was a famous Civil War hero, signed Brest-Litovsk, head of Soviet, famous thinker/writer/speaker
Stalin organizer, controlled the appointment of officials for communist party. This meant that every body had to be Stalin’s friend to get a job.
Industrialization v. NEP
Trotsky called for rapid industrialization (left) Stalin called for the preservation of the moderate policies of the NEP. (right) NEP won left was thrown out. Once right won Stalin began to eliminate his enemies and he himself then called for industrialization