Notes
- Power struggle between Stalin and Trotsky
- "Guns or Butter" debate = Heavy Industry or Consumer goods
- Struggle continues for 3 years
- Stalin is successful - he was the general secretary
- Expels Trotsky from Soviet Union
- Later to be put on trial in abstentia for treason
- Hunted down and assassinated in Mexico City in 1940 (Ice pick)
- Stalin to follow "Socialism in One Country" slogan
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As Russia struggles after Lenin's death, Stalin and Trotsky continue to battle. Eventually Stalin wins, expels, then hunts and kills Trotsky.
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“I know that there are, of course, sages who think they are very clever and even call themselves Socialists, who assert that power should not have been seized until the revolution had broken out in all countries. They do not suspect that by speaking in this way they are deserting the revolution and going over to the side of the bourgeoisie." -Lenin
Subjunctive Question
What would have happened if Trotsky won the debate?