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Collected Works of Leon Trotsky. Illustrated. Trotsky on Lenin, My Life, The Revolution Betrayed, The Bolsheviki and World Peace and others
My Life
Foreword
Preface to the Norwegian Edition (October 1, 1935)
Chapter I. Yanovka
Chapter II. Our Neighbors and My First School
Chapter III. Odessa: My Family and My School
Chapter IV. Books and Early Conflicts
Chapter V. Country and Town
Chapter VI. The Break
Chapter VII. My First Revolutionary Organization
Chapter VIII. My First Prisons
Chapter IX. My First Exile
Chapter X. My First Escape
Chapter XI. An Émigré for the First Time
Chapter XII. The Party Congress and the Split
Chapter XIII. The Return to Russia
Chapter XIV. The Year 1905
Chapter XV. Trial, Exile, Escape
Chapter XVI. My Second Foreign Exile: German Socialism
Chapter XVII. Preparing for a New Revolution
Chapter XVIII. The Beginning of the War
Chapter XIX. Paris, and Zimmerwald
Chapter XX. My Expulsion from France
Chapter XXI. Through Spain
Chapter XXII. New York
Chapter XXIII. In a Concentration Camp
Chapter XXIV. In Petrograd
Chapter XXV. Concerning Slanderers
Chapter XXVI. From July to October
Chapter XXVII. The Deciding Night
Chapter XXVIII. “Trotskyism” in 1917
Chapter XXIX. In Power
Chapter XXX. In Moscow
Chapter XXXI. Negotiations at Brest-Litovsk
Chapter XXXII. Peace
Chapter XXXIII. A Month at Sviyazhsk
Chapter XXXIV. The Train
Chapter XXXV. The Defense of Petrograd
Chapter XXXVI. The Military Opposition
Chapter XXXVII. Disagreements Over War Strategy
Chapter XXXVIII. The Transition to the New Economic Policy, and My Relations with Lenin
Chapter XXXIX. Lenin’s Illness
Chapter XL. The Conspiracy of the Epigones
Chapter XLI. Lenin’s Death and The Shift of Power
Chapter XLII. The Last Period of Struggle Within the Party
Chapter XLIII. The Exile
Chapter XLIV. The Deportation
Chapter XLV. The Planet Without a Visa
The Revolution Betrayed
Introduction The Purpose of the Present Work
Postscript
Chapter 1. What Has Been Achieved
Chapter 2. Economic Growth and the Zigzags of the Leadership
Chapter 3. Socialism and the State
Chapter 4. The Struggle for Productivity of Labor
Chapter 5. The Soviet Thermidor
Chapter 6. The Growth of Inequality and Social Antagonisms
Chapter 7. Family, Youth and Culture
Chapter 8. Foreign Policy and the Army
Chapter 9. Social Relations in the Soviet Union Not Yet Decided by History
Chapter 10. The Soviet Union in the Mirror of the New Constitution
Chapter 11. Whither the Soviet Union?
Appendix. “Socialism in One Country”
Our Revolution Essays on Working-Class and International Revolution, 1904–1917
Preface
Biographical Notes
The Proletariat and the Revolution
The Events in Petersburg
Prospects of a Labor Dictatorship
The Soviet and the Revolution (Fifty Days)
Preface to My Round Trip
The Lessons of the Great Year
On the Eve of a Revolution
Two Faces (Internal Forces of the Russian Revolution)
The Growing Conflict
War or Peace?
Trotzky on the Platform in Petrograd (From a Russian paper)
Dictatorship vs. Democracy
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
The Balance of Power
The Dictatorship of the Proletariat
Democracy
Terrorism
The Paris Commune and Soviet Russia
Marx and … Kautsky
The Working Class and Its Soviet Policy
Problems of the Organization of Labor
Karl Kautsky, His School and His Book
In Place of an Epilogue
From October to Brest-Litovsk
The Middle-Class Intellectuals in the Revolution
The Campaign Against the Bolsheviki
The Drive of June 18th
The July Days
The Events Following the July Days
The Conflict with the Soviets
The Democratic Conference
Inevitability of the Struggle for Power
The Conflict Regarding the Petrograd Garrison
The Democratic Soviet and “Pre-Parliament”
The S. R.'S and Mensheviks
Withdrawing from the Pre-Parliament. The Voice of the Front
The “Petrograd Soviet Day”
The Beginning of the Revolution
The Decisive Day
The Formation of the Soviet of the People's Commissaries
The First Days of the New Regime
The Cadet Uprising of October 29th
Kerensky's Advance on Petrograd
Collapse of Kerensky's Attempt
Internal Friction
The Fate of the Constituent Assembly
The Principles of Democracy and Proletarian Dictatorship
Peace Negotiations
Address of the Peoples Commissar on Foreign Affairs
The Second War and the Signing of Peace
Conclusion
Lenin
Introduction
Foreword
Lenin and the Old Iskra
Part I
Part II
Before the October Revolution
The Revolution
Brest-Litovsk
Breaking Up the Constituent Assembly
Forming the Government
The Czecho-Slovaks and the Left Social Revolutionaries
Lenin on the Platform
The Philistine and the Revolutionary
Nationalism in Lenin [89]
Lenin Wounded [90] (Alternate Translation)
Lenin III
Lenin Dead Tiflis Station, January 22nd, 1924
Results and Prospects
Preface to the Re-Issue of This Work
[Introduction]
I. The Peculiarities of Russian Historical Development
II. The Towns and Capital
III. 1789–1848 — 1905
IV. Revolution and the Proletariat
V. The Proletariat in Power and the Peasantry
VI. The Proletarian Regime
VII. The Pre-Requisites of Socialism
VIII. A Workers’ Government in Russia and Socialism
IX. Europe and Revolution
X. The Struggle for Power [107]
The Permanent Revolution
Introduction to the First (Russian) Edition
Introduction to the German Edition
1. The Enforced Nature of This Work, and Its Aim
2. The Permanent Revolution is Not a ‘Leap’ by the Proletariat, but the Reconstruction of the Nation under the Leadership of the Proletariat
3. Three Elements of the ‘Democratic Dictatorship’: Classes, Tasks and Political Mechanics
4. What Did the Theory of the Permanent Revolution Look Like in Practice?
5. Was the ‘Democratic Dictatorship’ Realized in Our Country? If so, When?
6. On the Skipping of Historical Stages
7. What Does the Slogan of the Democratic Dictatorship Mean Today for the East?
8. From Marxism to Pacifism
9. Epilogue
10. What is the Permanent Revolution?
Literature and Revolution
Introduction
Chapter 1. Pre-Revolutionary Art
Chapter 2. The Literary “Fellow-Travellers” of the Revolution
Chapter 3. Alexander Blok
Chapter 4. Futurism
Chapter 5. The Formalist School of Poetry and Marxism
Chapter 6. Proletarian Culture and Proletarian Art
Chapter 7. Communist Policy Toward Art
Chapter 8. Revolutionary and Socialist Art
The Bolsheviki and World Peace
Introduction
Author's Preface
Chapter I. The Balkan Question
Chapter II. Austria-Hungary
Chapter III. The War Against Czarism
Chapter IV. The War Against the West
Chapter V. The War of Defense
Chapter VI. What Have Socialists to Do with Capitalist Wars?
Chapter VII. The Collapse of the International
Chapter VIII. Socialist Opportunism
Chapter IX. The Decline of the Revolutionary Spirit
Chapter X. Working Class Imperialism
Chapter XI. The Revolutionary Epoch
Leon Trotsky
Collected Works of Leon Trotsky
