Assess the contribution of Leon Trotsky to the consolidation of communism in the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1928.
Date Submitted: 11/02/2004 01:16:37
Category: / History / European History
Length: 6 pages (1688 words)
Category: / History / European History
Length: 6 pages (1688 words)
Assess the contribution of Leon Trotsky to the consolidation of communism in the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1928.
The successful consolidation of Communism in Soviet Russia from the period of 1917 to 1928 can be largely attributed to the masterful orator and intellectual that was Leon Trotsky. Throughout this period he successfully premeditated the Bolshevik accession into power, and through his military brilliance, defended the Communist ideology and the foothold it had gained in Russia.
Born in 1879 to …
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…Tsars to Commissars Penguin Books, England
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Available: http://www.marists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1930-life/ch30.htm, Accessed 18 May 2003
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