This volume presents several addresses and texts issued by one of the central leaders of the October 1917 Revolution and the Soviet republic's first ten years, who, along with Lenin, reigned as one of the two most prominent publicfigures in the formative era, before the Stalin-led counter-revolutionary policies became the force of law. These documents span Trotsky's career, 1906-1940. Illus., b&w photos. 402p. Pap.
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The major political questions of the 20th century, discussed by an outstanding communist leader. Includes a defense of the right to revolution, made in 1906 in the prisoner's dock of the tsarist courts; speeches as a leader of the revolutionary government following the Bolshevik-led revolution; and "I Stake My Life", Trotsky's 1937 defense of his 20-year Bolshevik course and challenge to the organizers of Joseph Stalin's frame-up trials.