Socialism in One Country
- Power struggle between Stalin and Trotsky
- "Guns or Butter" debate -- Heavy Industry or Consumer goods - Stalin is Successful for 3 years - Expels Trotsky from Soviet Union - Later to be put on trail in abstention for treason - Hunted down and assassinated in mexico city in 1940 (ice pick) - Stalin to follow "Socialism in One Country" Slogan “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. To wait until the toiling classes bring about a revolution on an international scale means that everybody should stand stock-still in expectation. That is nonsense.”
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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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