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| leon trotsky history of the russian revolution: History of the Russian Revolution Leon Trotsky, 2017-08-08 An unparalleled account of one of the most pivotal and hotly debated events in world history. |
| leon trotsky history of the russian revolution: The History of the Russian Revolution Leon Trotsky, 1980 The classic account of the social, economic, and political dynamics of the first socialist revolution as told by one of its central leaders. Trotsky describes how, under Lenin’s leadership, the Bolshevik Party led the working class, peasantry, and oppressed nationalities to overturn the monarchist regime of the landlords and capitalists and bring to power a government of the workers and peasants—one that set an example for toilers the world over. Nowhere are those world-shattering events explained with more clarity and insight than in this powerful account. Unabridged edition, 3 vols. in one. “Trotsky’s History is a monumental work”—Studies in East European Thought Chronology, glossary, lists of principal persons, parties, and political groups, index. |
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| leon trotsky history of the russian revolution: History of the Russian Revolution Leon Trotsky, 2008-07-01 “During the first two months of 1917 Russia was still a Romanov monarchy. Eight months later the Bolsheviks stood at the helm. They were little known to anybody when the year began, and their leaders were still under indictment for state treason when they came to power. You will not find another such sharp turn in history especially if you remember that it involves a nation of 150 million people. It is clear that the events of 1917, whatever you think of them, deserve study.” --Leon Trotsky, from History of the Russian Revolution Regarded by many as among the most powerful works of history ever written, this book offers an unparalleled account of one of the most pivotal and hotly debated events in world history. This book reveals, from the perspective of one of its central actors, the Russian Revolution’s profoundly democratic, emancipatory character. Originally published in three parts, Trotsky’s masterpiece is collected here in a single volume. It serves as the most vital and inspiring record of the Russian Revolution to date. “[T]he greatest history of an event that I know.” --C. L. R. James “In Trotsky all passions were aroused, but his thought remained calm and his vision clear.... His involvement in the struggle, far from blurring his sight, sharpens it.... The History is his crowning work, both in scale and power and as the fullest expression of his ideas on revolution. As an account of a revolution, given by one of its chief actors, it stands unique in world literature.” --Isaac Deutscher |
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| leon trotsky history of the russian revolution: The History of the Russian Revolution to Brest-Litovsk Leon Trotsky, 1919 |
| leon trotsky history of the russian revolution: October China Miéville, 2018-05-22 Multi-award-winning author China Miéville captures the drama of the Russian Revolution in this “engaging retelling of the events that rocked the foundations of the twentieth century” (Village Voice) In February of 1917 Russia was a backwards, autocratic monarchy, mired in an unpopular war; by October, after not one but two revolutions, it had become the world’s first workers’ state, straining to be at the vanguard of global revolution. How did this unimaginable transformation take place? In a panoramic sweep, stretching from St. Petersburg and Moscow to the remotest villages of a sprawling empire, Miéville uncovers the catastrophes, intrigues and inspirations of 1917, in all their passion, drama and strangeness. Intervening in long-standing historical debates, but told with the reader new to the topic especially in mind, here is a breathtaking story of humanity at its greatest and most desperate; of a turning point for civilization that still resonates loudly today. |
| leon trotsky history of the russian revolution: Trotsky on Lenin Leon Trotsky, 2018-01-03 “Fascinating . . . full of insight and a perceptive portrait of Lenin’s single-mindedness and his relentless, all-consuming drive towards revolution in Russia.” —The Guardian Combining Young Lenin and On Lenin in one volume, this is a fascinating political biography by Lenin’s fellow revolutionary, Leon Trotsky. Trotsky on Lenin brings together two long-out-of-print works in a single volume for the first time, providing an intimate and illuminating portrait of the Bolshevik leader by another of the twentieth century’s greatest revolutionaries. Written shortly after its subject’s death, On Lenin covers the period of revolutionary struggle leading up to 1917 as well as the early years of Bolshevik power. We see a man totally committed to the revolutionary cause, whose legacy was later corrupted under the Soviet Union’s Stalinist degeneration. Young Lenin, meanwhile, describes his early years and conversion to Marxism, dispelling many of the myths later created by Soviet hagiography in the process. This is the essential guide for anyone wanting to understand Lenin as a thinker, active revolutionary, and personality. |
| leon trotsky history of the russian revolution: Life and Death of Leon Trotsky Victor Serge, Natalia Ivanovna Sedova, Natalii︠a︡ Ivanovna Trot︠s︡kai︠a︡, 2016-01-05 A biography of Leon Trotsky by two of his close friends and collaborators |
| leon trotsky history of the russian revolution: The Permanent Revolution & Results and Prospects Leon Trotsky, 2010 Originally published: Moscow; New York: Progress Publishers/ Militant Publishing Association, 1931. |
| leon trotsky history of the russian revolution: Leon Trotsky Joshua Rubenstein, 2011-10-15 Born Lev Davidovich Bronstein in southern Ukraine, Trotsky was both a world-class intellectual and a man capable of the most narrow-minded ideological dogmatism. He was an effective military strategist and an adept diplomat, who staked the fate of the Bolshevik revolution on the meager foundation of a Europe-wide Communist upheaval. He was a master politician who played his cards badly in the momentous struggle for power against Stalin in the 1920s. And he was an assimilated, indifferent Jew who was among the first to foresee that Hitler's triumph would mean disaster for his fellow European Jews, and that Stalin would attempt to forge an alliance with Hitler if Soviet overtures to the Western democracies failed. Here, Trotsky emerges as a brilliant and brilliantly flawed man. Rubenstein offers us a Trotsky who is mentally acute and impatient with others, one of the finest students of contemporary politics who refused to engage in the nitty-gritty of party organization in the 1920s, when Stalin was maneuvering, inexorably, toward Trotsky's own political oblivion. As Joshua Rubenstein writes in his preface, Leon Trotsky haunts our historical memory. A preeminent revolutionary figure and a masterful writer, Trotsky led an upheaval that helped to define the contours of twentieth-century politics. In this lucid and judicious evocation of Trotsky's life, Joshua Rubenstein gives us an interpretation for the twenty-first century. |
| leon trotsky history of the russian revolution: Trotsky Robert Service, 2009 This illuminating portrait of Leon Trotsky sets the record straight on the common misconceptions about the man and his legacy. Completing his masterful trilogy on the founding figures of the Soviet Union, Service delivers an authoritative biography. |
| leon trotsky history of the russian revolution: Year One of the Russian Revolution Victor Serge, 2017-01-15 An eyewitness account of the world-changing uprising—from the author of Memoirs of a Revolutionary. “A truly remarkable individual . . . an heroic work” (Richard Allday of Counterfire). Brimming with the honesty and passionate conviction for which he has become famous, Victor Serge’s account of the first year of the Russian Revolution—through all of its achievements and challenges—captures both the heroism of the mass upsurge that gave birth to Soviet democracy and the crippling circumstances that began to chip away at its historic gains. Year One of the Russian Revolution is Serge’s attempt to defend the early days of the revolution against those, like Stalin, who would claim its legacy as justification for the repression of dissent within Russia. Praise for Victor Serge “Serge is one of the most compelling of twentieth-century ethical and literary heroes.” —Susan Sontag, MacArthur Fellow and winner of the National Book Award “His political recollections are very important, because they reflect so well the mood of this lost generation . . . His articles and books speak for themselves, and we would be poorer without them.” —Partisan Review “I know of no other writer with whom Serge can be very usefully compared. The essence of the man and his books is to be found in his attitude to the truth.” —John Berger, Booker Prize–winning author “The novels, poems, memoirs and other writings of Victor Serge are among the finest works of literature inspired by the October Revolution that brought the working class to power in Russia in 1917.” —Scott McLemee, writer of the weekly “Intellectual Affairs” column for Inside Higher Ed |
| leon trotsky history of the russian revolution: A People's History of the Russian Revolution Neil Faulkner, 2017 The Russian Revolution may be the most misunderstood and misrepresented event in modern history, its history told in a mix of legends and anecdotes. In A People's History of the Russian Revolution, Neil Faulkner sets out to debunk the myths and pry fact from fiction, putting at the heart of the story the Russian people who are the true heroes of this tumultuous tale. In this fast-paced introduction, Faulkner tells the powerful narrative of how millions of people came together in a mass movement, organized democratic assemblies, mobilized for militant action, and overturned a vast regime of landlords, profiteers, and warmongers. Faulkner rejects caricatures of Lenin and the Bolsheviks as authoritarian conspirators or the progenitors of Stalinist dictatorship, and forcefully argues that the Russian Revolution was an explosion of democracy and creativity--and that it was crushed by bloody counter-revolution and replaced with a form of bureaucratic state-capitalism. Grounded by powerful first-hand testimony, this history marks the centenary of the Revolution by restoring the democratic essence of the revolution, offering a perfect primer for the modern reader. |
| leon trotsky history of the russian revolution: The History of the Russian Revolution Vol. I Leon Trotsky, 2018-03-02 THE HISTORY OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION Vol. I: The overthrow of Tzarism This book offers an unparalleled account of one of the most pivotal and hotly debated events in world history. It reveals, from the perspective of one of its central actors, the revolution's profoundly democratic, emancipatory character. In this first part Trotsky analyzes the social and political characteristics of Russia preceding the Revolution and presents the events of 1917 till July. It is an exciting chronicle and at the same time a historical document of extraordinary value. Bi Classics also published part 2 and 3 of this fundamental political and historical work. During the first two months of 1917 Russia was still a Romanov monarchy. Eight months later the Bolsheviks stood at the helm. They were little known to anybody when the year began, and their leaders were still under indictment for state treason when they came to power. You will not find another such sharp turn in history especially if you remember that it involves a nation of 150 million people. It is clear that the events of 1917, whatever you think of them, deserve study. (L. Trotsky) |
| leon trotsky history of the russian revolution: In Defense of Leon Trotsky David North, 2010 |
| leon trotsky history of the russian revolution: History of the Russian Revolution: Volume 3 Leon Trotsky, 2022-11-30 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 covers the lead up to the October Revolution and the triumph of the Soviets. |
| leon trotsky history of the russian revolution: Lessons of October (1924) Leon Trotsky, 1971 |
| leon trotsky history of the russian revolution: The Russian Revolution Sean McMeekin, 2017-05-30 From an award-winning scholar comes this definitive, single-volume history that illuminates the tensions and transformations of the Russian Revolution. In The Russian Revolution, acclaimed historian Sean McMeekin traces the events which ended Romanov rule, ushered the Bolsheviks into power, and introduced Communism to the world. Between 1917 and 1922, Russia underwent a complete and irreversible transformation. Taking advantage of the collapse of the Tsarist regime in the middle of World War I, the Bolsheviks staged a hostile takeover of the Russian Imperial Army, promoting mutinies and mass desertions of men in order to fulfill Lenin's program of turning the imperialist war into civil war. By the time the Bolsheviks had snuffed out the last resistance five years later, over 20 million people had died, and the Russian economy had collapsed so completely that Communism had to be temporarily abandoned. Still, Bolshevik rule was secure, owing to the new regime's monopoly on force, enabled by illicit arms deals signed with capitalist neighbors such as Germany and Sweden who sought to benefit-politically and economically-from the revolutionary chaos in Russia. Drawing on scores of previously untapped files from Russian archives and a range of other repositories in Europe, Turkey, and the United States, McMeekin delivers exciting, groundbreaking research about this turbulent era. The first comprehensive history of these momentous events in two decades, The Russian Revolution combines cutting-edge scholarship and a fast-paced narrative to shed new light on one of the most significant turning points of the twentieth century. |
| leon trotsky history of the russian revolution: 1905 Leon Trotsky, 2017-01-15 Leon Trotsky's 1905—despite long being out of print—has remained the central point of reference for those looking to understand the rising of workers, peasants, and soldiers that nearly unseated the Tsar in 1905. Trotsky's elegant, beautifully written account draws on his experience as a key leader of the revolution. |
| leon trotsky history of the russian revolution: The Russian Revolution Leo Graf Tolstoy, 2023-07-18 Written by one of Russia's greatest writers and social critics, this book offers a unique perspective on the events that led to the Russian Revolution of 1917. Tolstoy examines the social and economic conditions that gave rise to the revolution, the role of the Bolsheviks and other political groups, and the impact of the revolution on Russian society and culture. With its penetrating insights and passionate critique of the status quo, this book remains a powerful and provocative analysis of one of the most significant events of the twentieth century. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant. |
| leon trotsky history of the russian revolution: Eyewitnesses to the Russian Revolution Todd Chretien, 2017-11-20 This comprehensive chronicle of the Russian Revolution is told through the eyewitness accounts of journalists, political leaders, and ordinary citizens. More than a century ago, workers and peasants in Russia turned the world upside down when they overthrew their tsar, took over their factories, farms, and schools, and set out to build a new society. In this gripping reader, participants and firsthand observers of the revolution tell the inspiring, heroic, and sometimes tragic story of what happened in Russia over the course of 1917. Introduced and edited by Todd Chretien, Eyewitnesses to the Russian Revolution includes contributions from Leon Trotsky, Rosa Luxemburg, Vladimir Lenin, John Reed, Louise Bryant, and others. |
| leon trotsky history of the russian revolution: Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991 Orlando Figes, 2014-04-08 From the author of A People's Tragedy, an original reading of the Russian Revolution, examining it not as a single event but as a hundred-year cycle of violence in pursuit of utopian dreams In this elegant and incisive account, Orlando Figes offers an illuminating new perspective on the Russian Revolution. While other historians have focused their examinations on the cataclysmic years immediately before and after 1917, Figes shows how the revolution, while it changed in form and character, nevertheless retained the same idealistic goals throughout, from its origins in the famine crisis of 1891 until its end with the collapse of the communist Soviet regime in 1991. Figes traces three generational phases: Lenin and the Bolsheviks, who set the pattern of destruction and renewal until their demise in the terror of the 1930s; the Stalinist generation, promoted from the lower classes, who created the lasting structures of the Soviet regime and consolidated its legitimacy through victory in war; and the generation of 1956, shaped by the revelations of Stalin's crimes and committed to making the Revolution work to remedy economic decline and mass disaffection. Until the very end of the Soviet system, its leaders believed they were carrying out the revolution Lenin had begun. With the authority and distinctive style that have marked his magisterial histories, Figes delivers an accessible and paradigm-shifting reconsideration of one of the defining events of the twentieth century. |
| leon trotsky history of the russian revolution: The Bolsheviks Come to Power Alexander Rabinowitch, 2004 For generations in the West, Cold War animosity blocked dispassionate accounts of the Russian Revolution. This history authoritatively restores the upheaval's primary social actors-workers, soldiers, and peasants-to their rightful place at the center of the revolutionary process. |
| leon trotsky history of the russian revolution: A Concise History of the Russian Revolution Richard Pipes, 2011-04-27 An authoritative history of the Russian Revolution and the violent and disruptive acts that created the first modern totalitarian regime, portraying the crisis at the heart of the tsarist empire A deep and eloquent condemnation of the revolution and its aftermath. —The New York Times Drawing on archival materials released in Russia, Richard Pipes chronicles the upheaval that began as a conservative revolt but was soon captured by messianic intellectuals intent not merely on reforming Russia but on remaking the world. He provides fresh accounts of the revolution's personalities and policies, crises, and cruelties, from the murder of the royal family through civil war, famine, and state terror. Brilliantly and persuasively, Pipes shows us why the resulting system owes less to the theories of Marx than it did to the character of Lenin and Russia's long authoritarian tradition. What ensues is a path-clearing work that is indispensable to any understanding of the events of the century. |
| leon trotsky history of the russian revolution: Stalin Leon Trotsky, 2019-07-02 On 20th August 1940 Trotsky’s life was brutally ended when a Stalinist agent brought an ice pick crashing down on his head. Among the works left unfinished was the second part of his biography of Stalin. Trotsky’s Stalin is unique in Marxist literature in that it attempts to explain some of the most decisive events of the 20th century, not just in terms of epoch-making economic and social transformations, but in the individual psychology of one of the protagonists in a great historical drama. It is a fascinating study of the way in which the peculiar character of an individual, his personal traits and psychology, interacts with great events. How did it come about that Stalin, who began his political life as a revolutionary and a Bolshevik, ended as a tyrant and a monster? Was this something pre-ordained by genetic factors or childhood upbringing? Drawing on a mass of carefully assembled material from his personal archives and many other sources, Trotsky provides the answer to these questions. In the present edition we have brought together all the material that was available from the Trotsky archives in English and supplemented it with additional material translated from Russian. It is the most complete version of the book that has ever been published. |
| leon trotsky history of the russian revolution: Bankers and Bolsheviks Hassan Malik, 2020-05-26 Following an unprecedented economic boom fed by foreign investment, the Russian Revolution triggered the worst sovereign default in history. Bankers and Bolsheviks tells the dramatic story of this boom and bust, chronicling the forgotten experiences of leading financiers of the age. Shedding critical new light on the decision making of the powerful personalities who acted as the gatekeepers of international finance, Hassan Malik narrates how they channeled foreign capital into Russia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. While economists have long relied on quantitative analysis to grapple with questions relating to the drivers of cross-border capital flows, Malik adopts a historical approach, drawing on banking and government archives in four countries. The book provides rare insights into the thinking of influential figures in world finance as they sought to navigate one of the most challenging and lucrative markets of the first modern age of globalization. Bankers and Bolsheviks reveals how a complex web of factors--from government interventions to competitive dynamics and cultural influences - drove a large inflow of capital during this tumultuous period in world history. This gripping book demonstrates how the realms of finance and politics - of bankers and Bolsheviks - grew increasingly intertwined, and how investing in Russia became a political act with unforeseen repercussions. |
| leon trotsky history of the russian revolution: A Short History of the Russian Revolution Geoffrey Swain, 2017-01-30 In 1917 revolutionary fervour swept through Russia, ending centuries of imperial rule and instigating political and social changes that would lead to the formation of the Soviet Union. Arising out of proletariat discontent with the Tsarist autocracy and Lenin's proclaimed version of a Marxist ideology, the revolutionary period saw a complete overhaul of Russian politics and society and led directly to the ensuing civil war. The Soviet Union eventually became the world's first communist state and the events of 1917 proved to be one of the turning-points in world history, setting in motion a chain of events which would change the entire course of the twentieth century. Geoffrey Swain provides a concise yet thorough overview of the revolution and the path to civil war. By looking, with fresh perspectives, on the causes of the revolution, as well as the international response, Swain provides a new interpretation of the events of 1917, published to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the revolution. |
| leon trotsky history of the russian revolution: The Struggle Against Fascism in Germany Leon Trotsky, 1971 Writing in the heat of struggle against the rising Nazi movement, a central leader of the Russian revolution examines the class roots of fascism and advances a revolutionary strategy to combat it. |
| leon trotsky history of the russian revolution: History of the Russian Revolution Leon Trotsky, 2022-05-24 |
| leon trotsky history of the russian revolution: Through the Russian Revolution Albert Rhys Williams, 1921 |
| leon trotsky history of the russian revolution: The History of The Russian Revolution Volume-II Leon Trotsky, 2020-03-17 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 translated into English.Regarded by many as among the most powerful works of history ever written, this book offers an unparalleled account of one of the most pivotal and hotly debated events in world history. This book reveals, from the perspective of one of its central actors, the Russian Revolution's profoundly democratic, emancipatory character. |
| leon trotsky history of the russian revolution: Trotsky and the Problem of Soviet Bureaucracy Thomas M. Twiss, 2014-05-08 During the twentieth century the problem of post-revolutionary bureaucracy emerged as the most pressing theoretical and political concern confronting Marxism. No one contributed more to the discussion of this question than Leon Trotsky. In Trotsky and the Problem of Soviet Bureaucracy, Thomas M. Twiss traces the development of Trotsky’s thinking on this issue from the first years after the Bolshevik Revolution through the Moscow Trials of the 1930s. Throughout, he examines how Trotsky’s perception of events influenced his theoretical understanding of the problem, and how Trotsky’s theory reciprocally shaped his analysis of political developments. Additionally, Twiss notes both strengths and weaknesses of Trotsky’s theoretical perspective at each stage in its development. |
| leon trotsky history of the russian revolution: My Life Leon Trotsky, 2023-03-02 Since My Life was first published it has been regarded as a unique political, literary and human document. Written in the first year of Trotsky's exile in Turkey, it contains the earliest authoritative account of the rise of Stalinism and the expulsion of the Left Opposition, who heroically fought for the ideas and traditions of Lenin. Trotsky's exile is the culmination of a narrative which moves from his childhood, his education in the universities of Tsarist prisons, Siberia and then foreign exile - to his involvement in the European revolutionary movement and his central role in the tempestuous 1905 revolution and the Bolshevik victory in October 1917 and the civil war which followed. The work concludes with his deportation and exile. With an introduction by Alan Woods and a preface by Trotsky's grandson, Vsievolod Volkov. |
| leon trotsky history of the russian revolution: Leon Trotsky Tariq Ali, 2013 This illustrated introduction's irreverent cartoons will amuse readers, and surprise them with its sophisticated portrait of Trotsky's life and works. |
| leon trotsky history of the russian revolution: Fascism Leon Trotsky, 2005 Fascism, Which First Triumphed In Italy And Later In Germany And Afterwards In Many Countries As A Counter Revolutionary Mass Movement Showed Its Brutal Nature In Form Of A Bloody Dictatorship. It Proved Itself The Most Reactionary Rule Of The Bourgeoisie And Most Detrimental To The Working Class Movement. Today When The Advanced Capitalist Countries Also Facing The Economic Crisis, They Continuously Place Their Burden On The Underdeveloped Countries. As A Result Working Class And Toiling Masses Of Both Advanced And Backward Countries Face Immense Oppression. Alongside That The Fascist Movement Raises Its Head Everywhere. In India We Have Already Felt The Sound Of The Boots Of Indian Nazis And Seen The Terror Of Saffron Flag Bearers.This Pamphlet Is A Part Of Trotsky S Writings On Fascism. Trotsky, Along With Lenin, Developed The Theory Of Permanent Revolution In 1905, Later Was Expelled From Soviet Russia During Stalinist Regime. He Fought With His Marxist Analysis Within The Third International, But Defeated To The Bureaucratic Apparatus Of The Party. After The Communist Parties Under Moscow S Direction Made A Decisive Right Turn To Collaborate With Bourgeois Democracy Against Fascism And Thus Subordinated The Proletarian Struggle, Trotsky Founded The Fourth International In 1938. Trotsky S Ideas Still Presents Itself Between Latin American And European Mass Movements And In Some Cases In Asia Also.This New Edition Features An Introduction Looking An Eye On Indian Context With An Objective Of Reorienting The Programmatic Debate Within The Indian Left |
| leon trotsky history of the russian revolution: Literature and Revolution [First Edition] Leon Trotsky, 2018-02-27 Literature and Revolution, written by the founder and commander of the Red Army, Leon Trotsky, in 1924 and first published in 1925, represents a compilation of essays that Trotsky drafted during the summers of 1922 and 1923. This book is a classic work of literary criticism from the Marxist standpoint. By discussing the various literary trends that were around in Russia between the revolutions of 1905 and 1917, Trotsky analyses the concrete forces in society, both progressive as well as reactionary, that helped shape the consciousness of writers at the time. In the book, Trotsky also explains that since the dawn of civilisation art had always borne the stamp of the ruling class and was primarily a vehicle that expressed its tastes and its sensibilities. “It is difficult to predict the extent of self-government which the man of the future may reach or the heights to which he may carry his technique. Social construction and psycho-physical self-education will become two aspects of one and the same process. All the arts—literature, drama, painting, music and architecture will lend this process beautiful form. More correctly, the shell in which the cultural construction and self-education of Communist man will be enclosed, will develop all the vital elements of contemporary art to the highest point. Man will become immeasurably stronger, wiser and subtler; his body will become more harmonized, his movements more rhythmic, his voice more musical. The forms of life will become dynamically dramatic. The average human type will rise to the heights of an Aristotle, a Goethe, or a Marx. And above this ridge new peaks will rise.”—Leon Trotsky |
| leon trotsky history of the russian revolution: Trotsky in New York, 1917 Kenneth D. Ackerman, 2017-08-15 Lev Davidovich Trotsky burst onto the world stage in November 1917 as co–leader of a Marxist Revolution seizing power in Russia. It made him one of the most recognized personalities of the Twentieth Century, a global icon of radical change. Yet just months earlier, this same Lev Trotsky was a nobody, a refugee expelled from Europe, writing obscure pamphlets and speeches, barely noticed outside a small circle of fellow travelers. Where had he come from to topple Russia and change the world? Where else? New York City. Between January and March 1917, Trotsky found refuge in the United States. America had kept itself out of the European Great War, leaving New York the freest city on earth. During his time there—just over ten weeks—Trotsky immersed himself in the local scene. He settled his family in the Bronx, edited a radical left wing tabloid in Greenwich Village, sampled the lifestyle, and plunged headlong into local politics. His clashes with leading New York socialists over the question of US entry into World War I would reshape the American left for the next fifty years. |
| leon trotsky history of the russian revolution: Russian Revolution E. B. Rogachevskai︠a︡, 2017 First published in 2017 ... on the occasion of the British Library exhibition Russian Revolution: hope, tragedy, myths--Title page verso. |
| leon trotsky history of the russian revolution: The Russian Revolution David Killingray, 1975 |
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Leon Trotsky was a leading figure in the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in October 1917. He was expelled from the party and exiled by Joseph Stalin.In January 1929, he was banished from the Soviet Union. During his exile period in Turkey, Trotsky wrote this book on the isle of Prinkipo. [2]The History of Russian Revolution tells the story of the February and October Revolution's …
Leon Trotsky: The History of the Russian Revolution (1930)
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7 Aug 2008 · Trotsky's History of the Russian Revolution is a long, very complex, and extremely detailed treatment of the remarkably eventful period from February to October of 1917. Russia at the time was at war with Germany as part of an entente or three-country coalition that also included Great Britain and France. The Russian army was doing badly, its ...
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will not find another such sharp turn in history – especially if you remember that it involves a nation of 150 million people. It is clear that the events of 1917, whatever you think of them, deserve study. The history of a revolution, like every other history, ought first of all to tell what happened and how. That, however, is little enough.
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It is clear that the events of 1917, whatever you think of them, deserve study." --Leon Trotsky, from History of the Russian Revolution Regarded by many as among the most powerful works of history ever written, this book offers an unparalleled account of one of the most pivotal and hotly debated events in world history.
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1 Feb 2018 · Leon Trotsky The History of the Russian Revolution Volume One: The Overthrow of Tzarism. Chapter 1 Peculiarities of Russia’s Development. The fundamental and most stable feature of Russian history is the slow tempo of her development, with the economic backwardness, primitiveness of social forms and low level of culture resulting from it.
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Trotsky's book is divided into 3 volumes, The Overthrow of Tsarism, the History of the Russian Revolution and the Triumph of the Soviets. The first volume primarily looks at Russia under Tsarism, the February Revolution, the Provisional Government and the initial formulation of a new strategy upon the arrival of Lenin back to Russia.
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one of leaders of revolution chased away into exile by Napoleon's dogs Leon Trotsky other leader of "October Revolution" pure communist, followed Marx wanted to improve life for all in Russia chased away by Lenin's KGB (Lenin's secret police) Napoleon not a good speaker, not as clever like Snowball Joseph Stalin
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Leon Trotsky, History of the Russian Revolution Passage B The rising cost of living and the food crisis could not but serve as revolutionary factors among the masses. . . . Gradually the minor issues of food, the price of bread, and the lack of goods turned into political discussions concerning the entire system of the social order.
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by Leon Trotsky in the History of the Russian Revolution (1930). With its focus on human agency at its heart, the anthropologist Eric R. Wolf notes that it repre-sented ‘a milestone in social history’ and ‘a major contribution to debates about the historic role of the peasantry’.5 Engels built on the empirical work of
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Leon Trotsky History Of The Russian Revolution Leon Trotsky: A History of the Russian Revolution The Russian Revolution, a seismic event that reshaped the 20th century, wouldn't be fully understood without grappling with the complex and often contradictory figure of Leon Trotsky. This isn't just another historical recounting; we'll delve deep into
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1930: Trotsky in Norway (essay) 1930: The History of the Russian Revolution (book) 1930: World Unemployment and The First Five Year Plan 1930: My Life (autobiography) 1931: The Permanent Revolution (and Results & Prospects ) (book) 1932: Prinkipo Letter, 1932 (letter) 1932: Vital Questions for the German Proletariat (pamphlet - 300k in 3 parts)
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Mandel, Trotsky: A Study in the Dynamic of His Thought (London: Robson Books, 1979); John Molyneux, Leon Trotsky's Theory of Revolution (Brighton: Harvester Press, 1981); and Peter Bielharz, Trotsky, Trotskyism and the Transition to Socialism (London: Croom Helm, 1987). Among these, Day's study is far and away the most innovative.
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The influence of Leon Trotsky´s History of the Russian Revolution (1930) on C.L.R. James´ The Black Jacobins (1938) Hanna Emilie Røtvold Spring 2022 University of Oslo . 2 ... Leon Trotsky, History of the Russian Revolution (1930) At a certain stage, the middle of 1794, the potentialities of the chaos began to ...
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will not find another such sharp turn in history – especially if you remember that it involves a nation of 150 million people. It is clear that the events of 1917, whatever you think of them, deserve study. The history of a revolution, like every other history, ought first of all to tell what happened and how. That, however, is little enough.
THE REVOLUTION BETRAYED - Workers' Liberty
Leon Trotsky wrote both the best history of the Russian Revolution of 1917, but also the pioneering analysis of the subsequent Stalinist counter-revolution which replaced the workers' regime by bureaucratic tyranny. In this study group we will discuss Trotsky's book The Revolution Betrayed chapter by chapter.
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Leon Trotsky's Revolution Betrayed What is the Soviet Union and where is it going? written 1936 first published 1937 Translated by Max Eastman Transcribed for the Internet by Zodiac between August 1993 and March 1996. TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION: Purpose of the Present Work I.— WHAT HAS BEEN ACHIEVED The Principal Indices of Industrial growth
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Webbs warmed to the achievements of the Russian revolution and consigned not only Martov but the ousted Trotsky himself to history’s dustbin. Conventionally, this attachment has been taken to show the underlying affinity of Fabianism and Stalinism as the self-serving creeds of a new managerial elite. Equally, it revealed their
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revolution as expounded by Trotsky. Disaffected communists everywhere formed new parties to follow Trotsky's theory and propaganda. By 1936, when he moved to Mexico, the movement in Europe was at its peak. From his exile Trotsky channelled his ideas and instructions to the office of his son, Leon Sedov, in Paris. The latter's Bulletin of ...
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the previous days1.”Dangerous encounters between protestors and the police were occurring everywhere. Trotsky noted an encounter at the Alexander III monument in his book, History of the Russian Revolution: mounted police officers opened fire on the crowd.By the 25th, many soldiers were comrades with the demonstrators, lending them arms and force when needed.
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The History of the Russian Revolution: Trotsky's Pivotal Role The Russian Revolution, a seismic event that reshaped the 20th century, remains a fascinating and complex historical tapestry. While Lenin often takes center stage, the contributions – and betrayals – of Leon Trotsky are undeniably crucial to understanding this tumultuous period ...
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90 agrees with that of Trotsky’s History of the Russian Revolution.Carr liked to quote A.L Rowse’s remark that the difference between Sir Winston Churchill’s book about the First World War, The World Crisis, and Trotsky’s History of the Russian Revolution was that Churchill’s book had “no philosophy of his- tory behind it”.
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Leon Trotsky's In Defence Of October A speech delivered in Copenhagen, Denmark in November 1932 ... of the kind invitation to present a report on the Russian Revolution, permit me to point to the fact that ... do this in great detail in my "History of the Revolution". Here I can only formulate the most important conclusions.
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Marxism, War and Revolution Trotsky and the POUM First published in Revolutionary History, Volume 9, nº2, 2006. THE Spanish Revolution marked the end of a cycle that began with the Russian revolution of 1917. The scope and complexity of the social experiments that took
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Leon Trotsky •Trotsky was a brilliant intellectual and speaker who organized the Red Army and led it to victory against the White Armies in the Civil War of 1918-1919. •Trotsky and Stalin disagreed on Russia’s future. Trotsky wanted the Communist revolution to be worldwide. Stalin wanted to protect the Soviet Union
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much of this time, but led the revolution in October. He was a great public speaker, with a very persuasive and passionate personality. He was a true Marxist and believed in the idea of socialism. Leon Trotsky – once a Menshevik (opposed the Bolsheviks) Trotsky planned the October Revolution and would go on to led the Red Army. Very intelligent
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“bourgeois” revolution. During the Russian Revolution of November 1917, the victorious Bolshevik Party adopted neither of these strategies. It is my contention that Leon Bronstein, who became known as Leon Trotsky, first devised the revolutionary theory upon …
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The centenary both of the Russian Revolution of 1905 and of Leon Trotsky’s formulation of the theory of permanent revo-lution in 1906 is perhaps an apt moment to reconsider Trotsky’s contribution to the Marxist theory of history. While Trotsky’s place in the history books is guaranteed by the political role he
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Thus Leon Trotsky held a major responsibility for the consolidation of the Bolshevik Revolution. 7 Evan Mawdsley, The Russian Civil War (USA, 1987) p. 61 8 David Christian, Power and Privilege (Australia, 1986) p. 201 9 David Van Tol, Leon Trotsky (Australia, 2007), p.67 10 Ibid, p.75 11 David Christian, Power and Privilege (Australia, 1986) p.222
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Leon Trotsky First published: 1930 by Charles Schribner’s Sons, NY Transcription and HTML Markup: 1998 by David Walters ... Since the October revolution, the history of the revolutionary movement. v Foreword has held an important place in the …
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It is to these questions, among others, that the historian of the February revolution must provide an answer. I The question concerning the alleged spontaneity of the workers' movement exercised, among others, the historical imagination of Trotsky (in his History of the Russian Revotition). Unable to claim the credit for the successful movement ...
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Historical/Cultural Context of Animal Farm: The Russian Revolution The Russian revolution was complex! But here is a brief overview of the key players and events. ... Leon Trotsky, a strong follower of Marxist theory, and Joseph Stalin, head of the Communist Party. Stalin gained control, expelled Trotsky from the Communist Party, and ran him ...
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Leon Trotsky's Military Education: From the Russo-Japanese War to 1917* Neil M. Heyman San Diego State University Scholars have long recognized that Leon Trotsky's military policies during the Russian Civil War placed heavy emphasis on traditional military practices. As commissar of war, he established a system of discipline and hierar-
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refused to recognise the advancing revolution as a bourgeois revolution. They called it 1 In the Russian revolution of 1905, Trotsky had been the leader of the Petersburg Soviet, the assembly of workers’ delegates. Together with Lenin, Trotsky led the revolution of October 1917. He went on to build and lead the Red Army in the ensuing civil war.
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of the Russian Revolution ... stream of Russian history-that is, the major themes and issues rather than the marginal, the practical, or the convenient. ... facto "traitors" as Leon Trotsky. One of the incidental details of Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization program …
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Trotsky The History Of The Russian Revolution: History of the Russian Revolution Leon Trotsky,2008 During the first two months of 1917 Russia was still a Romanov monarchy Eight months later the Bolsheviks stood at the helm They were …
Leon Trotsky's Adventure in American Radical Politics. 1935–1937
sender of the cablegram was the exiled Bolshevik leader, Leon Trotsky, and the recipient was the wife of the most important "Trotskyist" leader in the United States, James Cannon.2 The Russian revolution-ary thus gave his blessing to a new manoeuvre by which the American Trotskyists were to enter the Socialist Party of America for certain
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Revolution were “1905 failed as a revolution because the protestors disunited and inexperienced.”‐ Leon Trotsky “The Tsar was truly out of touch with his people” and “although the regimesucceeded in restoring order, it could not hope to turn the clock back. 1905 had changed society for good. Many of the comrades of
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The History of the Russian Revolution Volume One Leon Trotsky First published: 1930 This edition: 2000 by Chris Russell for Marxists Internet Archive Please note: The text may make reference to page numbers within this document. These page numbers were maintained during the transcription process to remain faithful to the
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The role of Russian Marxist politician and theorist, Leon Trotsky facilitated the many successes of the Bolshevik regime in the period 1917 to 1940. Trotsky’s ideology and exceptional organisational ability was a major factor in the success of the 1917 October Revolution. Though his contribution to
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18 Jan 2020 · government, wrote as follows about Trotsky’s work in the revolution of 1905: “Trotsky’s popularity among the Petersburg proletariat up to the time of his arrest was very great, and it increased as a result of his extraordinarily picturesque and heroic conduct in court. I ought to say that Trotsky, of all the social democratic
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bourgeois revolution was directly bound up with the first stages of a 'socialist revolution. That fact was not" acci dental. The history of recent decades very clearly shows that, in the conditions of capitalist decline, backward countries are unable to attain that level which the old centers of capitalism have attained. Having themselves
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Trotsky still parade their writings and their politics as relevant to the working class ... History of the Russian Revolution, Leon Trotsky, p121. [4] Trotsky, p131. [5] October 1917 - A Social History of the Russian Revolution, Marc Ferro, p3. [6] quoted in Trotsky, p256.
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Lenin would be able to conquer the revolution, the masses, the whole Soviet or even his own Bolsheviks. Interpretation B From a book written by Leon Trotsky called ‘A History of the Russian Revolution’. It was published in 1930. Trotsky was a Bolshevik leader during the October/November Revolution and during the period of Lenin’s rule.
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18 Jan 2020 · government, wrote as follows about Trotsky’s work in the revolution of 1905: “Trotsky’s popularity among the Petersburg proletariat up to the time of his arrest was very great, and it increased as a result of his extraordinarily picturesque and heroic conduct in court. I ought to say that Trotsky, of all the social democratic
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Leon Trotsky, History of the Russian Revolution 3 vols. (London: Victor Gol-lancz, 1932-33) Trotsky wrote his three volume History of the Russian Revolution in exile in Turkey. As Stalin secured his hold on power in the late 1920s and moved against his leading rivals, Trotsky was first expelled from the Central Committee of the Communist Par-
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Leon Trotsky, the Red Army grew into an effective, millions-strong military force. ... The Russian Revolution, 3rd ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008). ... Oxford University Press, 2008). W. Bruce Lincoln, Red Victory: A History of the Russian Civil War (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989). Sources: Victoria Bonnell, Iconography of ...
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Leon Trotsky, from Literature and Revolution (1924) 2 protest against a shallow realism had its historical justification, it was only because it made room for a new artistic recreating of life, for destruction and re construction on new pivots.
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Underdeveloped Africa).2 Still, it was Trotsky who elaborated this concept, especially in his History of the Russian Revolution. It would be misleading to argue that there are not substantive issues separating Trotsky ist parties, such as the Socialist Workers Party, from other parties that also claim to be Marxist-Leninist. A
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2 The Power of One: The Russian Revolution Nicole Magie Imagine This … Imagine being a Russian in 1916. Many men are off fighting in World War I without adequate supplies.
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Russian by birth, is a member of the faculty of Yale University. He is perhaps best known in the United States for his works: A History of Russia, Lenin: Red Dictator and The Russian Revolution: 1917-31.] It Trotsky has been hopes in will exile be during only an what in-Trotsky hopes will be only an in-terval between his past and his future
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