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{{cite book |last1=Daniels |first1=Robert V. |title=The Rise and Fall of Communism in Russia |date=1 October 2008 |publisher=Yale University Press |pages=195,396 |isbn=978-0-300-13493-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=27JGzAoMLjoC |language=en}}</ref>
Other figures such as [[The Social and Political Thought of Leon Trotsky|Baruch Knei-Paz]] acknowledge some affinities with Stalinism in regards to the use of coercion but have also recognised clear differences between Trotsky and Stalin. On the [[culture|cultural field]], he highlighted their contrasting attitudes towards matters such as the [[arts]] and [[sciences]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Knei-Paz |first1=Baruch |title=The social and political thought of Leon Trotsky |date=1978 |location=Oxford [Eng.] |publisher= Clarendon Press |isbn=978-0-19-827233-5 |pages=289–301 |url=https://archive.org/details/socialpoliticalt0000knei/page/300/mode/2up?q=proletarian+culture}}</ref> According to Knei-Paz, it does not seem credible that Trotsky would have treated [[Culture of the Soviet Union|culture and society]] with the same total, brutal disregard as Stalin.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Knei-Paz |first1=Baruch |title=The social and political thought of Leon Trotsky |date=1978 |location=Oxford [Eng.] |publisher= Clarendon Press |isbn=978-0-19-827233-5 |pages=289–301 |url=https://archive.org/details/socialpoliticalt0000knei/page/300/mode/2up?q=proletarian+culture}}</ref> He also argued that Trotsky sought [[International trade|far-reaching economic, commercial relations with European countries]] which was at variance with the policy of [[isolationism]] and harsher measures pursued under Stalin.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Knei-Paz |first1=Baruch |title=The social and political thought of Leon Trotsky |date=1978 |location=Oxford [Eng.] |publisher= Clarendon Press |isbn=978-0-19-827233-5 |pages=289–301 |url=https://archive.org/details/socialpoliticalt0000knei/page/300/mode/2up?q=proletarian+culture}}</ref> Biographer Geoffrey Swain believed that the Soviet Union under the leadership of Trotsky would have been
[[File:Diego rivera Commies.jpg|thumb|left|250px|A [[Diego Rivera]] mural (''[[Man, Controller of the Universe]]'') depicts Trotsky with [[Marx]] and [[Engels]] as a true champion of the workers' struggle]]
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