Hey @Deceptichum just the other day I found some notes from a time I cared about it (my major is history, but I left college almost 20 years ago) referencing a bunch of shit I don’t even remember reading or writing, and I was curious because it was something about Trotsky… some references to Lenin’s April Thesis being influenced by Trotsky’s Permanent Revolution, how Lenin’s Treaty of Brest-Litovski was highly criticized by his own party, that led him to write Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder, and how through all of that Trotsky supported Lenin’s position while Stalin was using the Pravda to support the provisional government and the war. One of the notes is written “Kingston-Mann, Esther: Lenin and the Problem of Marxist Peasant Revolution, 1893-1917 pg139” (and I have no idea what’s there :P), and obviously Lenin’s own testament saying Stalin was an idiot and should be removed from his position… it seems like the whole thing was to poke fun at Leninists idolizing Stalin and demonizing Trotsky… perhaps you can make something out of it :P
Hey @Deceptichum just the other day I found some notes from a time I cared about it (my major is history, but I left college almost 20 years ago) referencing a bunch of shit I don’t even remember reading or writing, and I was curious because it was something about Trotsky… some references to Lenin’s April Thesis being influenced by Trotsky’s Permanent Revolution, how Lenin’s Treaty of Brest-Litovski was highly criticized by his own party, that led him to write Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder, and how through all of that Trotsky supported Lenin’s position while Stalin was using the Pravda to support the provisional government and the war. One of the notes is written “Kingston-Mann, Esther: Lenin and the Problem of Marxist Peasant Revolution, 1893-1917 pg139” (and I have no idea what’s there :P), and obviously Lenin’s own testament saying Stalin was an idiot and should be removed from his position… it seems like the whole thing was to poke fun at Leninists idolizing Stalin and demonizing Trotsky… perhaps you can make something out of it :P
ps: I’m not sure I’m tagging user correctly here.