Trotskyism vs Stalinism

Mansa is joined by Marilyn Vogt-Downey, translator and editor of "Notebooks for the Grandchildren", the memoirs of Mikhail Baitalsky, a left oppositionist who spent decades in Stalin's prisons, and Comrades Jon and Helene, to discuss who Baitalsky was, some of his experiences under Stalin's terror and his recollections and reflections on the bureaucratisation of the Soviet Union. Most of our discussion naturally ends up centering on how to understand Stalinism and the struggles of Trotsky and the left opposition-an important discussion which is relevant for advancing political clarification today.