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)
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