Leon Trotsky: Writings in Exile (Get Political)
Leon Trotsky, Paul Le Blanc
Language: English
Pages: 258
ISBN: B007IVBF1C
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Leon Trotsky was a key political figure of the twentieth century – a leader of the Russian Revolution, founder of the Red Army, author of books on literature, history, morality and politics.Leon Trotsky: Writings in Exile contains some of his most insightful and penetrating works. Exiled and isolated by Stalin, Trotsky used the only weapon he had left – words. In these writings he defends the 1917 revolution, warns prophetically of fascism and analyses anti-colonial movements in the global south.This collection gives a sense of the real Trotsky – passionate, humanist, Marxist. It will introduce the writings of one of history's great revolutionaries to a new generation.
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Immanuel Ness et al., eds, The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest, 8 vols. (Malden, MA, and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009). Isaac Deutscher, with George Novack, ed., The Age of Permanent Revolution: A Trotsky Anthology (New York: Dell Publishing Co., 1964), 40–1. See David Mandel’s outstanding entries on these matters in Ness et al., The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest. A classic account of the Russian Revolution and Civil War can be found in William H.
Of the Third International (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2008). See Bryan Palmer, James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890–1928 (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Trotsky T02424 01 text 23 29/12/2011 10:30 24 T rotsk y – writings i n e xil e 9. 10. 11. 12. Press, 2007), and James P. Cannon, The History of American Trotskyism: Report of a Participant (New York: Pathfinder Press, 1972). Trotsky’s major writings about the Sixth Congress have been.
(New York: International Publishers, 1938), 110; E. H. Carr, Twilight of the Comintern, 1930–1935 (New York: Pantheon Books, 1982). 7. Theodore Dan, The Origins of Bolshevism (New York: Schocken Books, 1970), 406. 8. An outstanding and informative study can be found in Pierre Broué and Emile Témime, The Revolution and the Civil War in Spain (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2008). See also Andy Durgan, The Spanish Civil War (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). 9. See Leon Trotsky, The Spanish.
Of the families of the fighters; the expropriation of the land and agricultural inventory in the interests of the peasants; the establishment of workers’ control and soviet power in the place of the former bureaucracy. 6. Enemies of the socialist revolution, that is, exploiting elements and their agents, even if masquerading as ‘democrats’, ‘republicans’, ‘Socialists’, and ‘Anarchists’, must be mercilessly driven out of the army. 7. At the head of each military unit must be placed commissars.
At this critical moment Trotsky fell ill and could take no personal part in the struggle. Those who did, like Pyatakov, Preobrazhenskii, and Radek, found Stalin using his organisational controls to ensure a stage-managed victory of the party leadership at the Party Conference in January 1924. This was followed by Lenin’s death and the opening up of a long campaign against ‘Trotskyism’, calling it a semi-Menshevik tendency. Later in 1924, Trotsky responded by writing a book-length introduction to.