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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Trotsky, Leon, 1879-1940. Leon Trotsky speaks. New York, Pathfinder Press [1972] (OCoLC)646526215 |
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Named Person: | Leon Trotsky; Leon Trotsky |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Leon Trotsky |
ISBN: | 9780873482226 0873482220 |
OCLC Number: | 482880 |
Notes: | "Books and pamphlets by Leon Trotsky published in the United States and in print in 1972": pages [334]-[335]. |
Description: | 333, [2] pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
Contents: | Preparing the revolution. On trial for insurrection -- Zimmerwald manifesto against the war -- The February revolution and its results: On the eve of a revolution ; Two faces -- internal forces of the Russian revolution ; The growing conflict ; War or peace? -- All power to the Soviets -- President of the Petrograd Soviet: Acceptance speech ; Answer to Skobelev ; To the Soviets of the Northern Region -- Organizing the insurrection: In answer to a rumor ; Three resolutions ; Brother Cossacks! ; Message to the garrison ; Report to the Extraordinary Session ; The overthrow of the Provisional Government ; To the army committees and soldiers' Soviets ; Walkout of the Mensheviks and Social Revolutionaries ; On the arrest of socialist ministers ; The organization of power. Defending the revolution. Commissar of Foreign Affairs: For peace -- against secret diplomacy! ; Appeal to the toiling, oppressed and exhausted peoples of Europe -- A word to the Russian workers and peasants on our friends and enemies, and how to preserve and strengthen the Soviet Republic -- Civil War: Lenin wounded ; Recruiting the Red Army ; Strike the enemy, spare the prisoner! -- Tasks of the Twelfth Congress of the Russian Communist Party -- For the internationalist perspective: On the road to the European revolution ; Prospects and tasks in the East -- The war danger -- the defense policy and the opposition. Preparing anew. Open letter to the workers of the USSR -- Interview from Prinkipo -- In defense of the Russian revolution -- Farewell to Prinkipo -- I stake my life! -- The founding of the Fourth International -- On the eve of World War II -- Testament. |
Other Titles: | Works. |
Abstract:
The major political questions of the 20th century, discussed by one of the most important communist leaders. Includes a defense of the right to revolution, made in 1906 in the prisoner's dock of the tsarist courts; speeches as a leader of the revolutionary government following the Bolshevik-led revolution; and "I Stake My Life," Trotsky's 1937 defense of his 20-year Bolshevik course and challenge to the organizers of Joseph Stalin's frame-up trials.
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