“As a class conscious young worker, and a committed communist, Volodya was naturally opposed to capitalist restoration, but he was also critical of the corrupt bureaucracy that had undermined the gains of the October Revolution and, in most cases, gone over to capitalism. Looking for a radical alternative to the bureaucracy and capitalism, he first joined a small pro-Albanian Stalinist Party. He was present at the founding congress of the Russian Communist Workers’ Party (RKRP). But in the early 1990s, when Russia was plunged into a maelstrom by the capitalist counterrevolution, Volodya began to study the works of Trotsky. Through experience and discussion, he broke with Stalinism and wholeheartedly embraced the ideas of Leon Trotsky, the genuine continuer of Bolshevism-Leninism.”

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