So, I’m in high school and I’ve got to make a simple essay contextualizing on the USSR for our reading of “Animal Farm” by Orwell. Are there any good articles, sites, etc. which I can use? (I apologize if this has been asked before or if there’s a megathread or something)
Gotcha, thanks. Just wanted to know how critically to watch the videos, it’s obviously good to have more thorough investigation, but the huge amount of Trots in the comments threw me off a bit.
Trots are gonna find a document and they will use it according to their agenda like they ever do. That’s why, they’re knit picking some good ones but ignore the bad ones. I think Stalin and Trotsky debate is silly. Even though, Trotsky said NEP wasn’t feasible people are unhappy and 3 years later Stalin saw the NEP results and he decided to stop NEP and then started to collectivization. So, in this case Stalin already did what Trotsky said.
I think main issue with Stalin and Trotsky debate was their background. Stalin was a serfs son from country side, uneducated but natural and quiet; Trotsky was coming from a educated family from the city, intellectual but arrogant.
If, we gonna say a Lenin-like heir that’s Sverdlov not Trotsky or Stalin. Both admitted to him and took orders from him when Lenin was not in his position