Written in the midst of the fighting, while he was directing the campaigns of the Red Army, Trotsky lays down the historical justification of the actions of the Bolsheviks to reply to criticism by Karl Kautsky, a renegade from Marxism.
Explores the fate of the Russian Revolution in the years following Lenin's death, and explains how the Stalinist policies rejected the productive potential of the nationalized planned economy in favor of a corrupt, wasteful bureaucratic system.
