Ideology and the nature of the state
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1) Read first pages 25-26. Was Lenin a 'trotskyist'?!? Arguments for and against?
After pgs 27-28 have been read answer to these two questions:
2) According to Lenin/Stalin/Trotsky-biographer Dmitri Volkogonov, 'the greatest secret of Stalin's invulnerability, his diabolical strength, was his monopoly on Lenin'. How should this statement be interpreted?
3) Consider, how fair is it to say that Stalin eliminated 'the Old Guard' for consolidating his own ideological views as an official dogma in the USSR.
1) Read first pages 25-26. Was Lenin a 'trotskyist'?!? Arguments for and against?
After pgs 27-28 have been read answer to these two questions:
2) According to Lenin/Stalin/Trotsky-biographer Dmitri Volkogonov, 'the greatest secret of Stalin's invulnerability, his diabolical strength, was his monopoly on Lenin'. How should this statement be interpreted?
3) Consider, how fair is it to say that Stalin eliminated 'the Old Guard' for consolidating his own ideological views as an official dogma in the USSR.
