Trotsky's theory of permanent revolution, based on his view of the strategy and class alliances needed to overthrow tsarism in Russia, as first elaborated in 1906 and later generalized in to struggles throughout the colo...Trotsky's theory of permanent revolution, based on his view of the strategy and class alliances needed to overthrow tsarism in Russia, as first elaborated in 1906 and later generalized in to struggles throughout the colonial and semicolonial world.