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§ The minds · 1879–1940 · Russia · Revolutionary & theorist

Leon Trotsky

Permanent revolution

World revolution against the bureaucratic state.

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The Red Army's founder and theorist of 'permanent revolution', whose break with Stalin made him the patron saint of the anti-Stalinist revolutionary left.

social

Cosmopolitan modernist intellectual and prolific theorist.

economic

Centrally planned economy and rapid industrialisation under workers' control.

governance

Revolutionary, but denounced Stalin's bureaucratic 'degenerated workers' state.'

Notable for
  • Theory of permanent revolution
  • Founded the Fourth International
  • Assassinated in exile, 1940
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