Problems of Everyday Life

Creating the Foundations for a New Society in Revolutionary Russia

By Leon Trotsky

"The working class had to take power into its own hands so that there would be no political obstacles to the construction of the new society. But when it had won power, it found itself faced with another hindrance: poverty and lack of culture...

"The problem of how to cultivate and adust, how to improve and 'finish' the physical and spiritual nature of man, is a colossal one, serious work on which is conceivable only under conditions of socialism." -- Leon Trotsky, 1924

About the author

Leon Trotsky was a key leader of the Russian Revolution. Forced into exile in 1928, Trotsky devoted the rest of his life to fighting the degeneration of the revolution and rise of a new dictatorial regime. Vilified and isolated, he fought an uncompromising battle with the Stalinist bureaucracy, defending the revolutionary and internationalist principles upon which the revolution was based. In 1940, he was murdered by an agent of the Stalinist regime.

Price: $27.95
ISBN: 9780873488549
Published: 1994
Type: Paperback
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