Trotsky

At a time when old Stalinist lies about Trotsky are again being revived, My Life is essential reading.

This is an extraordinary work. Trotsky published this autobiography in 1930 while residing in Turkey, where Stalin had sent him into exile. Learn More

In the annals of political literature, few works have withstood the test of time so well as Leon Trotsky's The Revolution Betrayed. More than 70 years after its initial publication, its analysis of the structure and dynamics of Soviet society and of the Soviet Union remains unsurpassed. Learn More

Trotsky wrote this book in the wake of the failure of the German Communist Party to capitalize on the revolutionary opportunity present in 1923. This essay marked an important development in the struggle by Trotsky against the degeneration of the Bolshevik Party under the leadership of Stalin, Kamenev and Zinoviev. In it the Bolshevik leader examines the critical role of working class leadership in the October Revolution in Russia. Trotsky insisted that the Communist International must assimilate the lessons of the experiences of 1917 or face disaster. This book provoked a furious response by the growing bureaucracy. Learn More

This book documents Trotsky's intervention in the political struggle with the Burnham-Shachtman tendency inside the US Socialist Workers Party, which was of fundamental importance for the Fourth International. (ePub version) Learn More

Trotsky wrote this book in the wake of the failure of the German Communist Party to capitalize on the revolutionary opportunity present in 1923. This essay marked an important development in the struggle by Trotsky against the degeneration of the Bolshevik Party under the leadership of Stalin, Kamenev and Zinoviev. In it the Bolshevik leader examines the critical role of working class leadership in the October Revolution in Russia. Trotsky insisted that the Communist International must assimilate the lessons of the experiences of 1917 or face disaster. This book provoked a furious response by the growing bureaucracy. (.mobi version) Learn More

1905 is an account by Trotsky of the events surrounding the great revolutionary uprising in Russia that year. Long out of print, this book is crucial reading for those seeking an understanding of these great events which served as a "dress rehearsal" for the 1917 Russian Revolution. In his introduction Trotsky notes that the experiences of the 1905 revolution laid his basis for the theory of Permanent Revolution, which formed the theoretical framework for the seizure of power by the Bolsheviks in 1917. The essays by Trotsky are written from the unique vantage point of a participant of the tumultuous events themselves. Learn More

A collection of writings by Leon Trotsky on the question of fascism. Trotsky reviews the experience of the rise of fascism in Germany
as well as the struggle in France against the emergence of armed fascist bands in the wake of the German catastrophe.

In these essays Trotsky examines the political and social origins of fascism and elaborates the strategical and tactical methods for the defense of the working class against this deadly menace. Among the topics covered by Trotsky is the use of the united front and the arming of the working class for self defense. In all his writings he stresses the need for a revolutionary orientation by the working class as the basis for winning vacillating elements of the middle class to the side of socialism.

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In this work, Trotsky, writing from the unique vantage point of a leading participant in both the 1905 and the October 1917 revolutions, explains the historical events, socio-economic processes, and political struggles that led to the creation of the world’s first workers’ state. Learn More

Contains some of the most important articles and speeches by Leon Trotsky on questions of everyday life, culture and education. The articles contained in the first section were first published in 1923 in the Soviet Union in the daily paper Pravda and also as a book. This edition also contains a selection of Trotsky's writings on education and culture, science and technology and the materialist world outlook. Learn More