Our Revolution: Essays on Working-Class and International Revolution, 1904-1917

by Leon Trotsky, Moissaye J. Olgin (Translator)

Overview

Illustrated
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CONTENTS
Biographical Notes & Illustrations
The Proletariat and the Revolution
The Events in Petersburg
Prospects of a Labor Dictatorship
Appendix: The Soviet and the Revolution
Preface to My Round Trip
The Lessons of the Great Year
On the Eve of a Revolution
Two Faces
The Growing Conflict
War or Peace?
Trotzky on the Platform in Petrograd

Product Details

BN ID:	2940012964144
Publisher:	PastIsProlog
Publication date:	06/06/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	514 KB

About the Author

"Leon Trotsky (1879 – 1940), born Lev Davidovich Bronshtein, was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist theorist.

Trotsky was one of the leaders of the Russian 1917 October Revolution, second only to Vladimir Lenin. During the early days of the Soviet Union, he served first as People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs and later as the founder and commander of the Red Army and People's Commissar of War. He was a major figure in the Bolshevik victory in the 1917–1922 Russian Civil War and Kronstadt rebellion. He was also among the first members of the Politburo.

After leading a failed struggle of the Left Opposition against the policies and rise of Joseph Stalin in the 1920s and the increasing role of bureaucracy in the Soviet Union, Trotsky was successively removed from power, expelled from the Communist Party, deported from the Soviet Union and assassinated on Stalin's orders. An early advocate of Red Army intervention against European fascism, Trotsky also opposed Stalin's non-aggression pact with Adolf Hitler in the late 1930s.

As the head of the Fourth International, Trotsky continued in exile to oppose the Stalinist bureaucracy in the Soviet Union, and was eventually assassinated in Mexico, by Ramón Mercader, a Soviet agent." --Wikipedia