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Leon Trotsky
Trotsky was among the leaders of the Bolshevik Revolution, but within a decade he had been forced into exile by Stalin. In this blistering indictment of Stalin’s political doctrine, Trotsky…
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The definitive account of the Russian Revolution, by Leon Trotsky, its leader and key historian.
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David Van Tol
This book offers a detailed examination of Trotsky’s career and the contributions he made to the Soviet Union, both as a participant and later as a critic. Fourteen chapters cover…
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Paul Le Blanc
A new critical biography of Leon Trotsky, a strong leader of Soviets and one of the most important figures of twentieth-century Communism. This biography delves deep into Trotsky’s life and…
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An assessment of the social and economic crisis that shook France in the mid-1930s in the aftermath of Hitler’s rise to power in Germany, and a program to unite the…
1905 chronicles the key developments lead to revolution and the unsuccessful attempt at overthrowing the Tsar of Russia.
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The major political questions of the 20th century, discussed by an outstanding communist leader. Includes a defense of the right to revolution, made in 1906 in the prisoner’s dock of…
Articles and letters on the Chinese revolution of the 1920s, recording the fight to reverse Stalin’s disastrous course of subordinating the Communist Party there to an alliance with the capitalist…
Lois Young-Tulin
“Mexico, 1940.” Leon Trotsky, a key charismatic figure in the 1917 Russian Revolution, lives in exile in Mexico after losing power to Josef Stalin in 1924. He resides in a…
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Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
This is Lenin's textbook on revolutionary strategy and tactics. Written in 1920 to educate the communist parties of the Comintern, to correct the ultra-left, sectarian trends that infected many of…
Rax Rinnekangas
Mexico City - Autumn 2004. A Nordic filmmaker arrives in the city to make a documentary about a major architectural landmark - Luis Barragan’s Casa Estudio house. He meets a…
‘The Real Situation in Russia’, first published in 1928, contains three of Trotsky’s harshest rebuttals of Stalin’s takeover of the Russian Revolution following the death of Lenin.
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…
Cette autobiographie de Trotsky traduite par Maurice Parijanine a ete ecrite pendant l'exil de Trotsky, l'un des personnages principaux de la revolution russe de 1917 et de la creation et…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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The History of the Russian Revolution by Leon Trotsky is a three-volume book on the Russian Revolution of 1917. Trotsky finished writing it in Russian in 1930 and was then…
The central organizer of the Red Army discusses the challenge of organizing an army made up of peasants and workers, based on a shared interest in defending the young Soviet…
Literary and biographical sketches of Rosa Luxemburg, H.G. Wells, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, and others.
Contains discussions between leaders of the U.S. Socialist Workers Party and exiled revolutionary Leon Trotsky in 1938. The product of these discussions, a program of immediate, democratic, and transitional demands…
This is the Spanish edition of The Revolution Betrayed: What Is the Soviet Union and Where Is It Going?
This is a new edition of Trotsky’s 1928 defence of the Marxist course that had guided the Comintern in its early years under Lenin. Written in exile, and banned in…
Reissued in time for the 79th anniversary in October, this is a classic work by one of the central leaders of the first socialist revolution. It presents a panorama of…
The early years of the Communist International, documented in articles and speeches by one of its founding leaders.
The displacement of British industry, trade, finance, and diplomacy by its U.S. rival following World War I opened a period of social crisis and class battles across Britain, discussed in…
These articles are from the early Soviet press on social and cultural issues in the struggle to create socialist women and men.
Talks about politics, history, Russian studies, communism, and Stalin.
The Defence of Terrorism, originally written in 1920 on a military train during the Russian Civil War, represents one of Trotsky’s most wide-ranging and original contributions to the debates that…
In this book, Leon Trotsky discusses his views on the Bolshevik revolution and its implications for world peace. He argues that the Bolsheviks represent the true voice of the working…
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high…
First Published in 1926, Where is Britain Going? considers the future of Britain in an age when the working classes were being driven into confrontation with the state under the…
Writing in the mid-1920s, Bolshevik leader Leon Trotsky explains the emergence of the United States as imperialism’s dominant economic and financial power following World War I. He describes the sharpening…
Had the revolution developed more normally – that is, under peaceful circumstances, as it had in 1912 – the proletariat would always have held a dominant position, while the peasant…
PERMANENT REVOLUTION. PREFACE AMERICAN EDITION: As THIS book goes to press in the English language, the whole thinking part of the international working class, and in a sense, the whole…
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe…
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…
Stalinism and Bolshevism is a book written by Leon Trotsky, a prominent Marxist revolutionary and theorist, that analyzes the rise of Joseph Stalin and the deviation of the Soviet Union…
""Whither England?"" is a political analysis by Leon Trotsky, a prominent Marxist revolutionary and theorist, originally published in 1925. The book examines the social and economic conditions of England during…
