On 20 August 1940, Leon Trotsky was mortally wounded by one of Stalin’s agents, in an attempt to extinguish the flame of genuine Marxism that he represented. But you cannot kill an idea. We defend and maintain this revolutionary heritage today.

The USSR was the most progressive state in history, yet within ten years it had transformed into a bureaucratic regime. In this episode of Marxist Voice, Rob Sewell will discuss the main processes that led to the degeneration of the Russian revolution.

Continuing our series on the historic crimes of Stalinism, and in defence of the genuine ideas of communism, Rob Sewell examines the Moscow Trials of the 1930s – a kangaroo court, through which the bureaucracy drowned Bolshevism in blood.