> The authorship of Lenin "Testimony" (only called that later by Trosky supporters) has been put into question to a significant degree by recent scholarship. I

> The authorship of Lenin "Testimony" (only called that later by Trosky supporters) has been put into question to a significant degree by recent scholarship. I suspect Lenin would be spinning in his grave when people suggest he would have wanted Trosky to be his successor. Recent scholarship meaning Kotkin. His is still a minority viewpoint, but he makes a solid case for it here (interesting throughout): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZ9KCG0KO4U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZ9KCG0KO4U More broadly speaking, his historical project is dispelling the notion that Stalin was some amoral psychopath who deviated from Lenin and the original Party and betrayed the organic development of the revolution (the viewpoint of most Trotskyists), so he's coming from a particular angle.