Essential Trotsky (Routledge Revivals)

<p>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. <i>The Essential Trotsky</i> 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.</p><p>The History of the Russian Revolution <i>to Brest-Litovsk</i> was written immediately after the events it describes when Trotsky was attending the negotiations that extracted Russia from the First World War; <i>The Lessons of October</i> an answer to his opponents in 1924 matches Lenin in power of analysis; and <i>Stalin Falsifies History</i> written in 1927 presents the beginning of the distorting process by which Stalin secured his position and defeated a range of attitudes many more benign than his own towards the future of the Revolution. This is a fascinating reissue that will be of value to students with an interest in early-twentieth century Russia the Russian Revolution and the writings of Trotsky more generally.</p>