Socialism in One Country, 1924-1926 Volume 2

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The second volume details the struggle for power within the Bolshevik Party, the most dramatic aspect of those crucial years 1924-1926 which 'gave to the revolutionary regime for good and for evil, its decisive direction'. Having defeated Trotsky in co-operation with Zinoviev and Kamenev, Stalin turns on his erstwhile allies. In the name of a policy of forced industrialisation and national self-sufficiency ('Socialism in one Country'), he establishes his authority over the monolithic party and the state.In the second volume E. H. Carr examines the political and constitutional issues of the new Soviet society which, like the economic transformations described in the previous volume, underpinned the struggle for mastery within the party.