Leon Trotsky My Life

Author : Leon Trotsky
Publisher : Wellred Books
Page : 719 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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My Life by Leon Trotsky Pdf

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.

Author : Leon Trotsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:878463305

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Leon Trotsky My Life by Leon Trotsky Pdf

Author : Leon Trotsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Revolutionaries
ISBN : 1900007177

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Leon Trotsky's My Life by Leon Trotsky Pdf

This priceless historical document by the Bolshevik leader features firsthand accounts from the top levels of the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917. Trotsky chronicles the struggle to consolidate a government run by workers and peasants, along with the rift between Lenin and Stalin and its political consequences.

Author : Robert Service
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780330522687

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Trotsky by Robert Service Pdf

Revolutionary practitioner, theorist, factional chief, sparkling writer, ‘ladies’ man’ (e.g., his affair with Frieda Kahlo), icon of the Revolution, anti-Jewish Jew, philosopher of everyday life, grand seigneur of his household, father and hunted victim, Trotsky lived a brilliant life in extraordinary times. Robert Service draws on hitherto unexamined archives and on his profound understanding of Russian history to draw a portrait of the man and his legacy, revealing that though his followers have represented Trotsky as a pure revolutionary soul and a powerful intellect unjustly hounded into exile by Stalin and his henchmen. The reality is very different, as this masterful and compelling biography reveals.

Author : Joshua Rubenstein
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300178418

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Leon Trotsky by Joshua Rubenstein Pdf

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.

Author : Nadezhda Ioffe
Publisher : Mehring Books
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Political persecution
ISBN : 9780929087702

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Back in Time by Nadezhda Ioffe Pdf

The only memoir to be written in the post-Stalin Soviet Union by a member of the Left Opposition formed under the leadership of Leon Trotsky in 1923. Nadezhda Joffe is the daughter of Adolf Abramovich Joffe, the Bolshevik leader and Left Oppositionist who committed suicide in 1927 to protest the expulsion of Trotsky from the Bolshevik Party. She gives a nightmarish and moving account of her fate and that of countless others at the hands of the Stalinist bureaucracy. Nadezhda Joffe survived and her memoir provides us with the testimony of one who experienced, with a high degree of political consciousness, the most tragic events of this century.

Author : Isaac Deutscher
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781781685600

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The Prophet by Isaac Deutscher Pdf

Few political figures of the twentieth century have aroused such intensities of fierce admiration and reactionary fear as Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky. His extraordinary life and extensive writings have left an indelible mark on the revolutionary consciousness. Yet there was once a danger that his life and influence would be relegated to the footnotes of history. Published over the course of ten years, beginning in 1954, Deutscher’s magisterial three-volume biography turned back the tide of Stalin’s propaganda, and has since been praised by everyone from Tony Blair to Graham Greene. In this definitive work, now reissued in a single volume, Trotsky’s true stature emerges as the most heroic, and ultimately tragic, character of the Russian Revolution.

Author : Leon Trotsky
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 1394 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781608467723

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Stalin by Leon Trotsky Pdf

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.

Author : Victor Serge,Natalia Ivanovna Sedova,Natalii︠a︡ Ivanovna Trot︠s︡kai︠a︡
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-05
Category : Communists
ISBN : 1608464695

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Life and Death of Leon Trotsky by Victor Serge,Natalia Ivanovna Sedova,Natalii︠a︡ Ivanovna Trot︠s︡kai︠a︡ Pdf

A biography of Leon Trotsky by two of his close friends and collaborators

Author : Leon Trotsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : History
ISBN : 0873488296

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The History of the Russian Revolution by Leon Trotsky Pdf

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.

Author : Bertrand M. Patenaude
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780060820695

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Trotsky by Bertrand M. Patenaude Pdf

Few political figures of the twentieth century have aroused as much passion, controversy, and curiosity as Leon Trotsky. His role in history—his epic rise and fall, his fiery persona, his violent end in Mexico in August 1940—holds a fascination that transcends the history of the Russian Revolution. Bertrand M. Patenaude masterfully interweaves the story of Trotsky’s final years with flashbacks to pivotal episodes in his career as a young Marxist, revolutionary hero, Red Army chief, Bolshevik leader, outcast from Stalin’s USSR, and ultimately heretic of the Kremlin, targeted for assassination by its secret police. Gripping, tragic, and based on extensive firsthand research, Trotsky brilliantly illuminates the fateful and dramatic life of one of history’s most captivating and important figures.

Author : Leon Trotsky
Publisher : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
Page : 2286 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : History
ISBN : PKEY:SMP2200000096364

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The Collected Works. Illustrated by Leon Trotsky Pdf

Leon Trotsky was a Ukrainian-Russian Marxist revolutionary, political theorist and politician. Ideologically a communist, he developed a variant of Marxism which has become known as Trotskyism. His politics differed from some aspects from those of Stalin or Mao Zedong, most importantly in his rejection of the theory of Socialism in one country and his declaring of the need for an international “permanent revolution.” This book contains: Trotsky on Lenin, My Life, The Revolution Betrayed, The Bolsheviki and World Peace and others. 1. My Life 2. The Revolution Betrayed 3. Our Revolution Essays on Working-Class and International Revolution, 1904-1917 4. Dictatorship vs. Democracy 5. From October to Brest-Litovsk 6. Lenin 7. Results and Prospects 8. The Permanent Revolution 9. Literature and Revolution 10. The Bolsheviki and World Peace

Author : Mary-Kay Wilmers
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781844679003

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The Eitingons by Mary-Kay Wilmers Pdf

A family history that explores the KGB, the fur trade, Freud and the assassination of Trotsky Leonid Eitingon was a KGB assassin who dedicated his life to the Soviet regime. He was in China in the early 1920s, in Turkey in the late 1920s, in Spain during the Civil War, and, crucially, in Mexico, helping to organize the assassination of Trotsky. “As long as I live,” Stalin said, “not a hair of his head shall be touched.” It did not work out like that. Max Eitingon was a psychoanalyst, a colleague, friend and protégé of Freud’s. He was rich, secretive and—through his friendship with a famous Russian singer— implicated in the abduction of a white Russian general in Paris in 1937. Motty Eitingon was a New York fur dealer whose connections with the Soviet Union made him the largest trader in the world. Imprisoned by the Bolsheviks, questioned by the FBI. Was Motty everybody’s friend or everybody’s enemy? Mary-Kay Wilmers, best known as the editor of the London Review of Books, began looking into aspects of her remarkable family twenty years ago. The result is a book of astonishing scope and thrilling originality that throws light into some of the darkest corners of the last century. At the center of the story stands the author herself—ironic, precise, searching, and stylish—wondering not only about where she is from, but about what she’s entitled to know.

Author : Leon Trotsky
Publisher : Westport, Conn : Hyperion Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Political Science
ISBN : WISC:89032315350

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Problems of Life by Leon Trotsky Pdf

Author : Joel Carmichael
Publisher : New York : St. Martin's
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Revolutionaries
ISBN : UCAL:B3849497

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Trotsky by Joel Carmichael Pdf