Stalin had also been relentlessly accusing Trotsky of underestimating the peasantry, and in the speech characterized “Trotskyism” as the “disbelief in the forces of our revolution, disbelief in the alliance [smychka] between workers and peasants,” which was indispensable to the success of the NEP and the revolution’s ultimate triumph.254 Attacks on Trotsky, in other words, translated into strong support for the NEP.
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