Sutton replaces workers, soldiers, and soviets with bankers and boardrooms, turning revolution into elite theater. Trotsky’s travel becomes “proof” of sponsorship, as bureaucracy and wartime chaos are rebranded as capitalist command. Forged documents linger as atmosphere while the real record—bank nationalization, debt repudiation, and trade monopoly—buries the thesis. The book ends where history begins: capital... Continue Reading →