Leon Trotsky

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"Our times again are rich in memoirs, perhaps richer than ever before. It is because there is much to tell. The more dramatic and rich in change the epoch, the more intense the interest in current history. The art of landscape-painting could never have been born in the Sahara. The "crossing" of two epochs, as at present, gives rise to a desire to look back at yesterday, already far away, through the eyes of its active participants. That is the reason for the enormous growth in the literature of reminiscence since the days of the last war. Perhaps it will justify the present volume as well." "The very fact of its coming into the world is due to the pause in the author's active political life. One of the unforeseen, though not accidental, stops in my life has proved to be Constantinople. Here I am camping - but not for the first time - and patiently waiting for what is to follow. The life of a revolutionary would be quite impossible without a certain amount of "fatalism." In one way or another, the Constantinople interval has proved the most appropriate moment for me to look back before circumstances allow me to move forward."

The Russian Revolution of 1917 can be regarded as the greatest event in human history. For the first time, millions of workers and peasants took political power into their own hands, sweeping aside the despotic rule of the capitalists and landlords, and setting out to create a socialist world order based upon the rule of the Soviet of Workers', Soldiers' and Peasants' Deputies. Capitalism had broken at its weakest link. The Russian Revolution heralded the beginning of the world revolution, inspiring the hopes and dreams of millions. Notwithstanding the terrible backwardness of Russia, the new Socialist Soviet Republic represented a decisive threat to the world capitalist order. It struck terror in the ruling classes everywhere, which rightly regarded it as a threat to their power and privileges. Leon Trotsky History of these events is a masterpiece. It was the first time that a scientific history of a great event has been written by a man who played a dominant part in it. Together with Lenin, he led the Bolshevik Revolution, and lived throughout its stormy events. However, this book is not simply a dramatic narrative, but a profound analysis of the inner forces of the Revolution. It remains by far the best account of the Russian Revolution today.This volume spans from the February Revolution to the prelude of the 'July Days', as well as the economic and political background of Russia before the Revolution. Also featured in this edition is Alan Woods introduction to the series.

A Marxist revolutionary and political thinker named Leon Trotsky authored the book "Dictatorship Vs. Democracy" in 1937. Trotsky's writings and articles collected in this volume analyses the political climate in the Soviet Union, the emergence of fascism in Europe, and the conflict between democracy and autocracy. According to Trotsky, Joseph Stalin's rule over the Soviet Union resulted in its transformation into a totalitarian dictatorship. Stalin's installation of an oppressive dictatorship and betrayal of the principles of the Russian Revolution are criticized by Trotsky. He also talks on the danger of fascism and how crucial it is to protect democracy against it. The Soviet Union banned the book because it was so divisive. Stalin finally ordered Trotsky's exile and murder in 1940. "Dictatorship Vs Democracy" is nevertheless an important contribution to Marxist theory and a crucial document in the history of the Soviet Union despite its contentious character.

Leon Trotsky's Writings on Britain span one of the most tumultuous periods in British history. The first decades of the 20th century were a time of crisis on all fronts for British capitalism. The country was rapidly sinking to a second-rate position among the world powers. Violent eruptions of class struggle shook capitalist rule to its very foundations. Amidst all this, the Marxists were striving to build a mass revolutionary party as the precondition of capitalism's overthrow.These writings were intended to assist the communists of the time to achieve their historic task. The same task is posed before us once more today. The thread of history is being re-tied, and Britain is once more moving towards revolutionary crises. This collection is indispensable for the Marxists who must rise to face this challenge.Trotsky has a profound affinity for his subject, which he brings to bear on a remarkable range of questions: from the history, psychology, philosophy and morality of the British ruling class; to Britain's revolutionary traditions going back to Chartism and the English Revolution; to the 1926 General Strike, and the questions of revolutionary strategy and tactics that the Marxists faced in the stormy decade of the 1930s.This book includes all three volumes in a single edition, and features a new introduction by Rob Sewell, author of Chartist Revolution and In the Cause of Labour: A History of British Trade Unionism.

‘…the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.’ The Modern South African Edition of the Communist Manifesto Includes: Leon Trotsky’s Afrikaans Introduction to the 1937 edition with an English translation. Neville Alexander’s 2002 Introduction in isiZulu and English to the isiZulu translation of The Communist Manifesto. A new isiZulu translation of The Communist Manifesto. Jeremy Cronin’s Introduction to this edition. As the first in the new series RADICAL PASTS, RADICAL FUTURES, this edition of The Communist Manifesto is a vantage point from where to view the lives, work and creativity of ordinary South Africans in the years 1937, 2002 & 2022, and a prompt to visit and re-visit Marx & Engels’ urgent text.

Deze autobiografie is een toegankelijke kennismaking met een opmerkelijk revolutionair en zijn opvattingen. Het is een uitermate politiek boek, wat niet verrassend is gezien de rol van politieke activiteit in het leven van Lev Dadidovitsj Bronstein, alias Leon Trotski (1879-1940). Ondanks de omvang van het boek is het een goed vertrekpunt voor lezers die Trotski willen leren kennen. Trotski is een begenadigd schrijver die vlot leest en regelmatig verrast met scherpe vergelijkingen, beelden of one-liners. Trotski schreef 'Mijn Leven' in politieke ballingschap. Hij had liever niet de tijd gehad om deze autobiografie te schrijven, maar de opgang van de stalinistische bureaucratie in de Sovjet-Unie leidde eerst tot isolement, vervolgens interne ballingschap en tenslotte uitwijzing. 'Mijn Leven' is niet geschreven omdat er nu eenmaal tijd voor was, dit boek is een polemiek en een verdediging van Oktober 1917 door n van de hoofdrolspelers in die revolutie. Deze editie bevat een bijlage door de Franse revolutionair Alfred Rosmer over het leven en werk van Trotski nadat hij dit boek had geschreven.

" Cette autobiographie de Trotsky traduite par Maurice Parijanine a t crite pendant l'exil de Trotsky, l'un des personnages principaux de la r volution russe de 1917 et de la cr ation et la consolidation de l'URSS dans les ann es qui suivirent. Elle permet de jeter un regard nouveau sur cette poque de l'histoire de la Russie. Dans l'introduction, Trotsky pr cise l'objet de cet ouvrage: Notre poque abonde en M moires, peut- tre plus que jamais. C'est que l'on a bien des choses raconter. L'int r t que suscite l'histoire contemporaine est d'autant plus vif que l' poque est plus dramatique et qu'elle est plus riche en sinuosit s... Ainsi s'explique l' norme d veloppement de la litt rature m morialiste depuis la derni re guerre... Ainsi peut- tre se justifie le livre que voici. (L on Trotsky)"

The only Bolshevik leader to write his memoirs, Leon Trotsky published this remarkable book in 1930, the first year of a perilous, decade-long exile that ended with his assassination in Mexico. Expelled from the Communist party and deported from the Soviet Union, the former People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs recalled his lifelong struggle in the world of revolutionary politics. In addition to his firsthand accounts of the early intrigues within the Communist government, Trotsky also delivered chilling glimpses into the rise of the new Soviet bureaucracy and prescient warnings of the Stalinist regime's horrors.My Life recounts the rise of the revolutionary wave in Russia in 1905 and 1917, the devastating effects of World War I, and the degeneration of the Russian Revolution from Lenin's internationalist course to Stalin's increasingly counterrevolutionary policies. Trotsky's exile placed him beyond the pale of both the official Communist party and the rest of the political world; yet in this fascinating historical document, he remains true to a philosophy of permanent world revolution, offering a highly informed perspective on the struggle toward a socialist future.

The Russian Revolution of 1917 can be regarded as the greatest event in human history. For the first time, millions of workers and peasants took political power into their own hands, sweeping aside the despotic rule of the capitalists and landlords, and setting out to create a socialist world order based upon the rule of the Soviet of Workers', Soldiers' and Peasants' Deputies. Capitalism had broken at its weakest link. The Russian Revolution heralded the beginning of the world revolution, inspiring the hopes and dreams of millions. Notwithstanding the terrible backwardness of Russia, the new Socialist Soviet Republic represented a decisive threat to the world capitalist order. It struck terror in the ruling classes everywhere, which rightly regarded it as a threat to their power and privileges. Leon Trotsky's History of these events is a masterpiece. It was the first time that a scientific history of a great event has been written by a man who played a dominant part in it. Together with Lenin, he led the Bolshevik Revolution, and lived throughout its stormy events. However, this book is not simply a dramatic narrative, but a profound analysis of the inner forces of the Revolution. It remains by far the best account of the Russian Revolution today.This volume covers the lead up to the October Revolution and the triumph of the Soviets.

"Fascism: What it is and How to fight it" is a collection of writings by Trotsky. Communist leader Leon Trotsky examines the class origins and character of fascist movements. Building on foundations laid by the Communist International in Lenin's time, Trotsky advances a working-class strategy to combat and defeat this malignant danger. This was one of Trotsky's great contributions to Marxism.

Traducida al espa ol por primera vez, La fuga de Siberia en un trineo de renos es la obra de un revolucionario impetuoso, s , pero no tiene nada de alegato pol tico o propaganda. Como protagonista de la Revoluci n de 1905, sofocada por el poder zarista, un Trotsky de 27 a os es enjuiciado y deportado de por vida a Siberia. El destino final est situado sobre el C rculo Polar rtico, a 1 600 km de la estaci n de tren m s cercana. En una de las postas del trayecto, el prisionero inicia la fuga a trav s de la estepa siberiana, territorio salvaje y extremo, con temperaturas por debajo de los - 25 oC y poblaciones con costumbres, penurias y solidaridades que l no conoce. ste es el relato en primera persona de esas jornadas extenuantes, llenas de acechanzas. Temiendo cada minuto por su captura y confiando su vida y su libertad al imprevisible cochero Nikifor, que no para de beber, Trotsky se convierte, acaso contra su voluntad, en un viajero. Transita por la tundra, se fascina con los renos, pasa las noches junto al fuego como un siberiano n mada m s, urde estrategias para no ser reconocido, toma notas mientras se asegura de tener a mano el rev lver como ltimo recurso para defenderse. Diario de viaje escrito sobre la marcha, agitado por el suspenso y la expectativa, La fuga de Siberia nos muestra la intimidad del joven Trotsky, y a un narrador literario en estado puro.

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This record by Trotsky is of the events in Russia from the October Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd, to his Signing of the Brest-Litovsk deal with Germany on 3rd March 1918 that removed Russia from World War I. The treaty demanded heavy losses for Russia with regard to the annexation of land and financial indemnities to Germany. In this extended essay, Trotsky contends the reasons why he chose to sign what appears to be a disastrous agreement for Russia.Had the revolution developed more typically - - that is, under serene conditions, as it had in 1912 - - the working class would constantly have stood firm on a predominant situation, while the worker masses would progressively have been taken close behind by the low class and brought into the whirlpool of the unrest. In any case, the conflict delivered a by and large unique progression of occasions.In this book, Trotzky (until close to the end) involves the Russian Calendar in showing dates, which, as the reader will recall, is 13 days behind the Gregorian Calendar, presently introduced in Russia.