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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,...

The Real Situation in Russia, first published in 1928, contains three of Trotsky s harshest rebuttals of Stalin s takeover of the Russian Revolution following the death of Lenin. The first part contains a defence of the Opposition Platform against the Stalinist denunciation; the second details Trotsky s view of the precise nature of the Stalinist program, as well as its disastrous consequences for Russia; and the third demonstrates the unashamed falsification of the history by Stalin with regard to the beginning of the Revolution.

Including a sympathetic, but nonetheless astute,...

The Defence of Terrorism, originally written in 1920 on a military train during the Russian Civil War, represents one of Trotsky s most wide-ranging and original contributions to the debates that dominated the 1920s and 30s.

Trotsky s intention is "far away from any thought of defending terrorism in general." Rather, he seeks to promote an historical justification for the Revolution, by demonstrating that history has set up the revolutionary violence of the progressive class against the conservative violence of the outworn classes . The argument is developed in response to the...

When Lenin died and the Russian Revolution began to devour its leaders, Trotsky survived longer than most as an exile in Mexico, until his assassination in 1940. "The Essential Trotsky," first published in 1963, demonstrates the significance of this innovative and radical thinker s contribution to the Bolshevik success, the magnetism of his personality, and also a certain tragic heroism discernible throughout his life."

The History of the Russian Revolution" "to Brest-Litovsk" was written immediately after the events it describes, when Trotsky was attending the negotiations that...