Trotsky, Leon 1879-1940 creator text utu 2012 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "Dictatorship vs. Democracy (Terrorism and Communism): a reply to Karl Kantsky" by Leon Trotsky is a political tract published in August 1920. Written in response to Karl Kautsky's critique of the Russian Revolution, Trotsky's work defends the Bolsheviks' rejection of parliamentary democracy and justifies the use of revolutionary force by the dictatorship of the proletariat. The book enters a heated debate between leading Marxist thinkers about democracy, violence, and the proper path for socialist revolution in Soviet Russia. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_and_Communism Release date is 2012-02-25 Produced by Odessa Paige Turner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) Original publication data not identified Revolutions Communism -- Russia Kautsky, Karl, 1854-1938. Terrorismus und Kommunismus HX Original publication data not identified 23011800 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38982 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38982 UtSlPG 260607 20260610133907.0 38982