Toward the History of Trotskyist Opposition from Below
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Reznik A.V. Toward the History of Trotskyist Opposition from Below. Vlast’ (The Authority). 2015. Vol. 22. No. 5. P. 149-152.
Abstract
This article explores the opposition in the Bolshevik party that struggled for a democratization of intra-party regime in the period of 1923–1924. Traditional political historical science is focused on the struggle for power at the top, giving special attention to the Trotsky-Stalin confrontation. This article offers a history from below, exploring opposition of rank-and-file student-communists in Petrograd, where common support for the opposition was low from the very beginning. Based on the case studies of support for the opposition in several higher educational institutions the author concludes that the main factor contributed to oppositional activity was Trotsky’s authority, even though being in the opposition was not limited by «protecting» him. When studying early Soviet political practices it is important to consider that personification of politics was one of the most pragmatic tactics that legitimized oppositional activity.
Keywords:
intra-party struggle in the CPSU, political history of the USSR, Trotskyism
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RKP(b): Vnutripartijnaya bor'ba v dvadcatye gody: Dokumenty i materialy. 1923. (otv. sost. V.P. Vilkova). 2004. M.: ROSSPEHN, 464 p.
Rogovin V.Z. 1992. Byla li al'ternativa? Trockizm: vzglyad cherez gody. M.: Terra, 400 p.
Carr E.H. 1954. The Interregnum: 1923–1924. London: Penguin, 400 p.
Daniels R.V. 1960. Conscience of the Revolution. Communist Opposition in the Soviet Russia.Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 456 p.
Halfin I. 2007. Intimate Enemies. Demonizing the Bolshevik Opposition, 1918–1928.Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 416 p.
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Reznik, A. V. (2015). Toward the History of Trotskyist Opposition from Below. Vlast’ (The Authority), 22(5), 149-152. Retrieved from https://jour.fnisc.ru/index.php/vlast/article/view/2472
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