Leninism, Trotskyism And Revolutionary Socialism

Theorists and political leaders of twentieth century revolutionary socialist movements and states, spanning Bolshevism and its Leninist theory of the vanguard party, the Trotskyist and post-Trotskyist currents that opposed Stalinism from the left, and the national communist and socialist leaderships that took power or led major revolutionary movements across Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America. This group gathers the largest single current among this subcategory's Marxist theorists, reflecting how much of twentieth century revolutionary politics organized itself explicitly around Leninist party theory or a Trotskyist critique of it.