Leon Trotsky Quotes:
Ocupation: Revolutionary
Life: November 7, 1879 - August 21, 1940
Birthday: November 7
Death: August 21
Only when the kulak refused to deliver grain to the State did [Joseph] Stalin, under the pressure of the Left Opposition, accomplish a sharp turn. Being the empiricist that he is, he moved, to the opposite extreme, and set as a task for two or three years the collectivization of all the peasantry, the liquidation of the kulaks as a class, and the compression of the Five Year Plan into four years.
source: Source: www.marxists.org
topic: Years, Opposites, Class, Five Year Plans, Compression
