Left Opposition

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The Left Opposition was formed in Russia in 1923.

One of the primary disputes was on the possibility of sustaining a Socialist revolution without world wide revolution. The left opposition supported the permanent revolution theory, while the right supported Socialism is one country.

In 1927 the members of the Left Opposition were expelled from the Soviet Communist party (CSPU), and forced to leave the Soviet Union. Shortly thereafter the International Left Opposition was created.

Nearly every party member who followed or supported in anyway the Left Opposition was executed during the Moscow Trials (1936-38), a list of the leading members in the left opposition:

Leon Trotsky

Karl Radek (1885-1939)

Eugene Preobrazhensky (1886-1937)

Ivan N. Smirnoy (1881-1936)

Mikhail Boguslavsky (1886-1937)

Sergei Mrachkovsky (1883-1936)

Alexander Beloborodov (1891-1938)

Christian Rakovsky (1873-1941)

Lev S. Sosnovsky (1886-1937)

Nikolai L. Muralov (1877-1937)

Ivan T. Smilga