This work constitutes a rebuttal to charges made against the Bolsheviks by Karl Kautsky in 1919. Trotsky's defense of Bolshevism is devoted to two basic questions. One is the question of the revolutionary seizure of power to establish and maintain the dictatorship of the proletariat in the Soviet form, the kind of party required for this purpose, and the role it must play. The other is the question of the methods to be pursued by a socialist revolution in realizing socialism, that is, in reorganizing the economic foundation of society.
- ISBN10 0313252122
- ISBN13 9780313252129
- Publish Date 23 May 1986 (first published 30 June 1975)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 June 2016
- Publish Country US
- Publisher ABC-CLIO
- Imprint Praeger Publishers Inc
- Edition New edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 238
- Language English