Trotsky In New York 1917

Author : Kenneth D. Ackerman
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781619028739

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Trotsky in New York, 1917 by Kenneth D. Ackerman Pdf

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.

Author : M Raoul Boyer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0991855825

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Revolution Anyone? Trotsky in Canada, 1917 by M Raoul Boyer Pdf

In March 1917 Russian Socialist Revolutionary Leon Trotsky left New York for Russia and the upcoming Russian Revolution. His goal upon arrival in his homeland, was to create a new communist country based on long-espoused ideals. During his previous ten weeks in New York he had been under constant surveillance by British and American intelligence. Through all of it Trotsky would continue to write, to speak, and to generally agitate for the socialist cause. On the trip back to Russia, Trotsky's ship went into the port of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada for a routine inspection. Little did he know that an order had been given for his arrest. This precipitated a month-long saga which would initially find Trotsky imprisoned in the historic Halifax Citadel. Then he and his compatriots would be shuttled inland to the internment camp in Amherst, Nova Scotia for most of the month of April, 1917. His wife and two children would remain under house-arrest in Halifax. Revolution Anyone? Trotsky in Canada 1917 recounts fascinating stories of intrigue as well as a snapshot of interned life in a German POW camp, in this little-known event in the history of World War One.

Author : Leon Trotsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1870958845

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Trotsky in 1917 by Leon Trotsky Pdf

Author : Leon Trotsky
Publisher : Penguin Classics
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-02
Category : Soviet Union
ISBN : 0241301319

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History of the Russian Revolution by Leon Trotsky Pdf

Regarded by many as among the most powerful works of history ever written, The History of the Russian Revolution offers an unparalleled account of one of the most pivotal and hotly debated events in world history. This book presents, from the perspective of one of its central actors, the profound liberating character of the early Russian Revolution. Originally published in three parts, Trotsky's masterpiece is collected here in a single volume. It is still the most vital and inspiring record of the Russian Revolution ever published.

Author : Ian D. Thatcher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005-06-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781134572144

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Trotsky by Ian D. Thatcher Pdf

This new biography provides a full account of Leon Trotsky's political life, based upon a wealth of primary sources, including previously unpublished material. Ian D. Thatcher paints a new picture of Trotsky's standing in Russian and world history. Key myths about Trotsky's heroic work as a revolutionary, especially in Russia's first revolution of 1905 and the Russian Civil War, are thrown into question. Although Trotsky had a limited understanding of crucial contemporary events such as Hitler's rise to power, he was an important thinker and politician, not least as a trenchant critic of Stalin's version of communism.

Author : Antony Cyril Sutton
Publisher : CLAIRVIEW BOOKS
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781905570614

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Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution by Antony Cyril Sutton Pdf

Why did the 1917 American Red Cross Mission to Russia include more financiers than medical doctors? Rather than caring for the victims of war and revolution, its members seemed more intent on negotiating contracts with the Kerensky government, and subsequently the Bolshevik regime. In a courageous investigation, Antony Sutton establishes tangible historical links between US capitalists and Russian communists. Drawing on State Department files, personal papers of key Wall Street figures, biographies and conventional histories, Sutton reveals: The role of Morgan banking executives in funnelling illegal Bolshevik gold into the US; the co-option of the American Red Cross by powerful Wall Street forces; the intervention by Wall Street sources to free the Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky, whose aim was to topple the Russian government; the deals made by major corporations to capture the huge Russian market a decade and a half before the US recognized the Soviet regime; the secret sponsoring of Communism by leading businessmen, who publicly championed free enterprise. Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution traces the foundations of Western funding of the Soviet Union. Dispassionately, and with overwhelming documentation, the author details a crucial phase in the establishment of Communist Russia. This classic study - first published in 1974 and part of a key trilogy - is reproduced here in its original form. (The other volumes in the series include Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler and a study of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1933 Presidential election in the United States.)

Author : Leon Trotsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Soviet Union
ISBN : 1900007266

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The History of the Russian Revolution by Leon Trotsky Pdf

This edition of Trotsky's masterpiece, with a new foreword by Ahmed Shawki, tells the epic story of the remarkable events that transformed Russian - and world - history for ever.

Author : Geoffrey Swain
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317812784

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Trotsky and the Russian Revolution by Geoffrey Swain Pdf

Supporters of Stalin saw Trotsky as a traitor and renegade. Trotsky’s own supporters saw him as the only true Leninist. In Trotsky and the Russian Revolution, Geoffrey Swain restores Trotsky to his real and central role in the Russian Revolution. In this succinct and comprehensive study, Swain contests that: In the years between 1903 and 1917, it was the ideas of Trotsky, rather than Lenin, which shaped the nascent Bolshevik Party and prepared it for the overthrow of the Tsar. During the autumn of 1917 workers supported Trotsky’s idea of an insurrection carried out by the soviet, rather than Lenin’s demand for a party orchestrated coup d’etat. During the Russian Civil War, Trotsky persuaded a sceptical Lenin that the only way to victory was through the employment of officers trained in the Tsar’s army. As well as examining Trotsky’s critique of Stalin’s Russia in the 1930s, this seminar reader probes deeper to explore the ideas which drove Trotsky forward during his years of influence over Russia’s revolutionary politics, exploring such key concepts as how to construct a revolutionary party, how to stage a successful insurrection, how to fight a revolutionary war, and how to build a socialist state.

Author : Leon Trotsky
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1986134466

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The History of the Russian Revolution Vol. I by Leon Trotsky Pdf

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)

Author : Leon Trotsky
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547025665

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Our Revolution by Leon Trotsky Pdf

"Our Revolution" is a book by Leon Trotsky, first issued in 1906. The final article of this book, "Results and Prospects," became the most important and famous part of the work. In the book, Trotsky completed the concept of "permanent revolution" and "the law of uneven and combined development," which became the philosophical foundations of the socialist movements till today.

Author : Leon Trotsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1913026779

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History of the Russian Revolution: Volume 1 by Leon Trotsky Pdf

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 spans from the February Revolution to the prelude of the 'July Days', as well as the economic and political background of Russia before the Revolution. Also featured in this edition is Alan Woods introduction to the series.

Author : Nikolai Nikolaevich Sukhanov
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 745 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400857104

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The Russian Revolution 1917 by Nikolai Nikolaevich Sukhanov Pdf

Author of the only full-length eyewitness account of the 1917 Revolution, Sukhanov was a key figure in the first revolutionary Government. His seven-volume book, first published in 1922, was suppressed under Stalin. This reissue of the abridged version is, as the editor's preface points out, one of the few things written about this most dramatic and momentous event, which actually has the smell of life, and gives us a feeling for the personalities, the emotions, and the play of ideas of the whole revolutionary period." Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Leon Trotsky
Publisher : Wellred Books
Page : 719 pages
File Size : 44,9 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 : Hassan Malik
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691202228

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Bankers and Bolsheviks by Hassan Malik Pdf

A must-read financial history for investors navigating today's volatile global markets Following an unprecedented economic boom fed by foreign investment, the Russian Revolution triggered the largest sovereign default in history. In Bankers and Bolsheviks, Hassan Malik tells the story of this boom and bust, chronicling the experiences of leading financiers of the day as they navigated one of the most lucrative yet challenging markets of the first modern age of globalization. He 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. 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.

Author : Leon Trotsky
Publisher : New York : Pathfinder Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015011517524

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Writings of Leon Trotsky: 1938-39 by Leon Trotsky Pdf

Fourteen volumes covering the period of Trotsky's exile from the Soviet Union in 1929 until his assassination at Stalin's orders in 1940.