Trotskij e Stalin: Lo scontro sull'economia – Richard B. Day
This is a documented research on the evolution of Trotsky's thought in the field of economic policy. Richard B. Day, professor of political economy at the University of Toronto, led it through a detailed analysis of his writings (and also of the unpublished works of the Trotsky Archives), who thus reconstructed the economic debate and the struggles of the opposition in the Soviet party of the twenties. At the end of the period of "war communism", while in the party leadership the tendencies to establish wider relations with the West were maturing, Trotsky had been the most decisive advocate of a policy of economic isolation of the USSR, but in 1925, just when Stalin became a proponent of industrialization independent of the West, he resolutely converted to a policy of economic integration. However, opposing Trotsky's theory of "permanent revolution" to "socialism in one country" was, according to the author, above all a political invention of Stalin: the battle of Trotsky in the years 1926-1927 actually aimed at challenging the validity of socialism in a country "separated" from the rest of the world. In Day's opinion, the same theory of "socialism in one country" could also have been formulated using the utterances and writings of Trotsky during and after the period of "war communism".
- Publisher: Editori Riuniti (January 1, 1979)
- ISBN-10: 8835919460
- ISBN-13: 978-8835919469