Leon Trotsky

Born: 1879 Died: 1940

Lev Davidovich Bronstein. Leader, with V.I. Lenin, of the Russian Revolution. Architect of the Red Army. Soviet Commissar of Foreign Affairs 1917–1918 and Commissar of Military and Naval Affairs 1918–1924. In 1929, he was expelled from the Communist Party by the Stalinist faction of the Party and then deported from the USSR. In 1938 he helped found the Fourth International, the World Party of Socialist Revolution. In 1940, he was murdered by a Stalinist assassin at his home in exile, in Mexico.

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A complete listing of the writings of Leon Trotsky in e-book format is here. A PDF of a 1959 SWP produced bibliography of Trotsky’s writings is available here

Last Updated: 21 November 2014

The Trotsky Internet Archive Subject Indexes/Collected Writings Series

Selected Works: An index to a collection of writings here on the Trotsky Internet Archive selected by the TIA Director and volunteers as representing Trotsky’s most significant political works [Note: this is still a work in progress]

Leon Trotsky on China: A complete collection of Trotsky’s writings on China covering the years 1925 through 1940

Leon Trotsky on Britain: A complete collection of Trotsky’s writings on Britain covering the years 1920 through 1940 with an emphasis on the mid-20s

The Rise of German Fascism: A complete collection of Trotsky’s writings on Germany covering the years 1930 through 1940

The Spanish Revolution: A complete (... but under construction) collection of Trotsky’s writings on Civil War in Spain covering the years 1931 through 1939

Our Revolution: Essays in Working Class and International Revolution, 1904–1917: A collection of Trotksy’s writings – Edited by M. Olgin for the Soviet Government

Literature and Art: A listing of Trotsky’s views on Marxism and the Arts

Letters to Belgium: A collection of Trotsky’s letters to the Belgian Trotskyists

Trotsky on Women: A collection of Trotsky’s articles on women and related subjects

On Black Nationalism: A collection of discussions with Trotsky

Political Profiles: Compilation of articles on leading figures in the European and Russian workers’ movement

1901 — 1910

1900: On the Philosophy of the Superman

1901: On Optimism and Pessimism; on the 20th Century and on Many Other Issues

1904: Report of the Siberian Delegation

1904: Our Political Tasks (book – 6 files)

1904: The Proletariat and the Revolution

1905: The events in Petersburg

1905: Political Letter II

1905: Open Letter to Professor P.N. Miliukov

1906: Results and Prospects (book) Significant work!

1907: The Year 1905 (book) [Click Here for PDF version 1 megabyte in size] Significant work!

1907: The Soviet and the Revolution

1907: Preface to My Round Trip

1908: Leo Tolstoy, Poet & Rebel (literary criticism/article)

1909: Why Marxists Oppose Individual Terrorism (article)

1909: The Young Turks

1910: The Intelligentsia and Socialism

1911 — 1917

1911: The Bankruptcy of Individual Terrorism

1914: War and the International (book) [Click Here for PDF version] Significant work!

1915: Why the German Social-Democracy Failed (A 1915 Review of Leon Trotsky’s essay)

1915: First Year of the War

1916: Clemency! (article)

1916: The National Principle

1916: The Big Lie: The Defence of Small Nations

1916: On the Events in Dublin

1916: On the Paris Commune

1917: The Lessons of the Great Year

1917: On the Eve of a Revolution

1917: Two Faces

1917: The Growing Conflict

1917: War or Peace?

1917: Captivity (letter)

1917: Peace and Reaction (article)

1917: Democracy, Pacifism and Imperialism

1917: Forward

1917: The Farce of Dual Power (article)

1917: Democracy, Pacifism and Imperialism (article)

1917: The July Uprising (article)

1917: Pacifism as the Servant of Imperialism (essay)

1917: After the July Days: WHAT NEXT? (pamphlet)

1917: The Struggle for State Power (pamphlet)

1917: Blood and Iron (speech)

1917: The Peace Program and the Revolution OR [the redited/translated version from Fourth International]

1918 — 1919

1918: History of the Russian Revolution to Brest-Litovsk (book)

1918: Chapters from My Diary 1918: The International Will the Allies Throw Away the Last Chance?

1918: Peace Negotiations and the Revolution

1918: Work, Discipline, and Order to Save the Socialist Soviet Republic

1918: Speech on Brest-Litovsk

1918: Lenin Wounded

1918: Soviet Government documents (authored by Trotsky as Soviet Commissar of Foreign Affairs from November of 1917 through March of 1918)

1918: The Principles of Democracy and Proletarian Dictatorship

1918: May Day and the International

1918: Trotsky’s Military Writings, Volume 1 (collection of articles, essays & lectures) For a PDF version, click here.

1919: To the Spartacus League of Germany and the Communist Party of German Austria

1919: Order Out of Chaos (as published in Socialist Appeal)

1919: Invitation to the First World Congress [of the Comintern]

1919: Manifesto Of the Communist International to the Workers Of the World (alternative translation – extract)

1919: Report on the Communist Party Of the Soviet Union and the Red Army

1919: Order Of the Day Number 83 to the Red Army and Navy

1919: To Comrades Of the Spartacus League

1919: A Creeping Revolution

1919: Great Days

1919: En Route: Thoughts on the Progress Of the Proletarian Revolution

1919: A Letter to Our French Comrades

1919: French Socialism on the Eve Of Revolution

1919: Jean Longuet

1919: Rallying the Army During the Civil War (speech)

1919: Report of Comrade Trotzky: Russia (to Class Struggle, article)

1919: Great Times(to Class Struggle, article)

1919: Order Of The Day Number 83 To The Red Army And Navy

1919: Problems the Army During the Civil War (speech)

1919: Trotsky’ Military Writings, Volume 2 (collection of articles, essays & lectures) For a PDF version, click here.

1920

1920: Nationalism in Lenin

1920: V.I. Lenin on His Fiftieth Birthday

1920: Letter to Yugoslav Communists

1920: On the Coming Congress of the Comintern

1920: Speech on Comrade Zinoviev’s Report on the Role of the Party

1920: Manifesto of the Second World Congress

Part I | Part II

1920: A Letter to a French Syndicalist About the Communist Party

1920: On the Policy of the KADP (Communist Workers Party of Germany)

1920: Trotsky’ Military Writings, Volume 3 (collection of articles, essays & lectures)For a PDF version, click here.

1920: Terrorism and Communism: An Answer to Karl Kautsky Significant work!

1921

1921: Vergeat, Lepetit and Lefebvre

1921: Lessons of the Paris Commune

1921: The March Movement in Germany

1921: The March Revolutionary Movement in Germany (Personal Notes)

1921: May Day Manifesto of the ECCI

1921: The Unemployed and the Trade Unions

1921: Speech Delivered at the Second World Conference of Communist Women

1921: Letter to Comrade Monatte

1921: Letter to Comrades Cachin and Frossard

1921: On l’Humanité, the Central Organ Of the French Party

1921: The Red Army to the General Staff Of the Revolution

1921: Report on the World Economic Crisis and the New Tasks Of the Communist International Part I | Part II

1921: Summary Speech [At the 3rd Congress of the Communist International]

1921: Theses of the Third World Congress on the International Situation and the Tasks of the Comintern

1921: Speech on the Italian Question at the Third Congress of the Communist International

1921: Speech on Comrade Radek’s Report on “Tactics of the Comintern” a the Third Congress

1921: Speech on Comrade Lenin’s Report: “Tactics of the Russian Communist Party”

1921: The Main Lesson of the Third Congress

1921: Report on “The Balance Sheet” of the Third Congress of the Communist International

1921: Summary Speech

1921: A School of Revolutionary Strategy

1921: From the ECCI to the Central Committee of the French Communist Party

1921: From the ECCI to the Marseilles Convention of the French Communist Party

1921: Speech on Comrade Zinoviev’s Report “The Tactics of the Comintern” at the Eleventh Party Conference

1921: Trotsky’ Military Writings, Volume 4 (collection of articles, essays & lectures) For a PDF version, click here.

1921: The Red Army to the General Staff of the Revolution

1921: Summary Speech at the Eleventh Party Conference

1921: Flood-tide

1921: Letter to Olminsky

1922

1922: Paul Levi and Some ‘Lefts’

1922: On the United Front (alternative translation)

1922: The Economic Boom and the International Labor Movement

1922: The Trade Unions and the Soviet State

1922: The Question of the United Front

1922: Resolution of the ECCI on the French Communist Party (alternative translation)

1922: The Georgian Gironde as a Political Type (extract from Between Red and White – alternative translation)

1922: Bourgeois Public Opinion, Social Democracy and Communism (extract from Between Red and White – alternative translation)

1922: Letter of the CC of the RCP, to the Session of the Enlarged ECCI (with Zinoviev)

1922: A Note on Plekhanov

1922: The Communists and the Peasantry in France (alternative translation)

1922: The Lessons of May Day (alternative translation)

1922: From the ECCI to the Central Committee of the French Communist Party

1922: French Communism and the Position of Comrade Rappoport

1922: To Comrade Ker

1922: Resolution of the ECCI on the French Communist Party

1922: To Comrade Treint

1922: From the ECCI to the Seine Federation of the French Communist Party (Summer 1922)

1922: From the ECCI to the Paris Convention of the French Communist Party (September 13, 1922)

1922: From the ECCI to the Paris Convention of the French Communist Party (October 6, 1922)

1922: The Fifth Anniversary of the October Revolution and the Fourth World Congress of the Communist International

1922: Who Are the Traitors? A PDF document from the Early American Marxism archive [Alternative version]

1922: On World Politics (responses to press questions)

1922: Speech in Honour of the Communist International

1922: The New Economic Policy of Soviet Russia and the Perspectives of the World Revolution

1922: The Economic Situation of Soviet Russia from the Standpoint of the Socialist Revolution

1922: Resolution on the French Question

1922: A Militant Labour Program for the French Communist Party (December 5, 1922)

1922: Resolution of the French Commission

1922: Between Red and White (essay) Significant work!

1922: Report on the Communist International

1922: Prospects of Revolution

1922: The Position of the Republic and the Tasks of Young Workers (report to Communist Youth – 56k)

1922: Political Perspectives (Late 1922?)

1922: Report on the Fourth World Congress

1922: Trotsky’ Military Writings, Volume 5 (collection of articles, essays & lectures) For a PDF version, click here.

1922: The Contradictions of the Soviet Policy

1923

1923: The New Course (essay) Significant work!

1923: A Necessary Discussion with Our Syndicalist Comrades (March 23, 1923)

1923: Preface to The Communist Movement in France (March 25, 1923)

1923: The Anarcho-Syndicalist Prejudices Again! (May 8, 1923)

1923: Is the Slogan of ’The United States of Europe’ a Timely One? (June 30, 1923)

1923: Can a Counter-Revolution or a Revolution Be Made on Schedule? (September 23, 1923)

1923: To Comrade McKay (March 13, 1923) (as published in Socialist Appeal)

1923: The Curve of Capitalist Development

1923: Civility and Politeness as a Necessary Lubricant in Daily Relations

1923: The Struggle for Cultured Speech

1923: Habit and Custom

1923: Vodka, the Church and the Cinema

1923: From the Old Family to the New

1923: The Family and Ceremony

1923: Lenin Ill

1923: On the Slogan of the “United States of Europe” (contribution to a discussion)

1923: Communist Policy Toward Art (essay)

1923: The Social Function of Literature & Art (essay)

1923: What Is Proletarian Culture, and Is It Possible? (essay)

1923: The Transformation of Morals

1923: On the German Revolution: A Speech to the Moscow Metal Workers

1923: Man Does Not Live by Politics Alone

1923: Not By Politics Alone ... (different extract)

1923: Bureaucratism and Factional Groups

1923: Theses on Industry

1923: The Tasks of Communist Education

1924

1924: How Lenin Spoke on the Platform

1924: Lenin Dead (essay)

1924: The Timetable for Revolution (essay)

1924: Lenin – The Philistine and the Revolutionary

1924: Engels’s War Articles

1924: Lenin Before October

1924: May Day in the East & the West

1924: Perspectives and Tasks in the East Speech on the Third Anniversary of the Communist University for Toilers of the East

1924: Class and Art – Culture Under the Dictatorship

1924: Through What Stage Are We Passing?

1924: Perspectives of World Development [94k]

1924: Literature and Revolution

1924: The Lessons of October (essay – 182k-multi-part) [Click Here for PDF version] Significant work! [Alternate Translation]

1924: First Five Years of the Communist International Volume I Significant work!

1924: First Five Years of the Communist International Volume II Significant work!

1924: Not by Politics Alone Does Man Thrive

1924: Against Bureaucracy, Progressive and Unprogressive

1925 — 1926

1925: The Letter of Comrade Trotsky to the Plenum of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party

1925: Jacob Sverdlov [memorial essay]

1925: Dialectical Materialism and Science

1925: Towards Capitalism or Towards Socialism? – The Language of Figures

1925: Twenty Years After 1905

1925: Lenin [book]

1925: Letter on Eastman’s Book

1925: Where Is Britain Going? [book] Significant work!

1926: To the Memory of Sergei Essenin

1926: Theses on Revolution and Counter-Revolution

1926: On the Tempo and Timescale of the Revolution

1926: Europe and America

1926: Brailsford and Marxism

1926: Radio, Science, Technique and Society

1926: An Answer to the Stalinist Critics

1926: Once More on Pacifism and Revolution

1926: Problems of the British Revolution [book]

1927

1927: Class Relations in the Chinese Revolution (letter)

1927: The Four Portraits of Chiang Kai-Shek (letter)

1927: The Struggle for Peace and the Anglo-Russian Committee

1927: The Chinese Revolution and the Theses of Comrade Stalin

1927: Epilogue: The Speech of Comrade Chen Duxiu on the Tasks of the Chinese Communist Party

1927: First Speech on the Chinese Question

1927: Second Speech on the Chinese Question

1927: The Sure Road

1927: Hankow and Moscow

1927: Is It Not Time to Understand?

1927: What We Gave and What We Got

1927: The “Clémenceau Thesis” and the Party Regime [27k]

1927: The Opposition and the Wrangel Officer

1927: The Appeal to Party Members

1927: Platform of the Opposition [Click Here for PDF version] Significant work!

1927: The Russian Opposition: Questions and Answers [Interview]

1928 —1929

1928: The Third International After Lenin (A Draft Criticism of the Communist International) [thesis] [Click Here for PDF version] Significant work!

1928: Who Is Leading The Comintern Today?

1928: On the Canton Insurrections: Three Letters to Preobrazhensky [letter]

1928: A Letter from Exile in Alma-Ata

1928: The July Plenum and the Right Danger

1928: The Theses of Comrade Radek

1928: On Max Eastman

1928: Some Remarks on the Sixth Congress

1928: On the Situation in Russia – A Letter to a Comrade

1928: Crisis in the Right-Center Bloc

1928: Our Differences with the Democratic Centralists

1928: Reply to Stalin

1929: The Groupings in the Communist Opposition

1929: A Letter to the American Trotskyists

1929: Open Letter to the Workers of the USSR

1929: Trotsky on Radek

1929: A Letter to Souvarine

1929: On Churchill

1929: Behind the Scenes in the Russian Party

1929: A Letter on the Capitulators

1929: First of August! What will “International Red Day” Bring?

1929: Two Letters on the Origin of the Fourth International

1929: Once Again on Brandler-Thalheimer (alternative translation)

1929: The Sino-Russian Conflict and the Opposition

1929: An Open Letter to the Editorial Board of La Verité

1929: A Letter to the Editorial Board of La Lutte De Classes

1929: Communism and Syndicalism

1929: The Errors in Principle of Syndicalism

1929: The First Contact with Belgium

1929: The Defense of the Soviet Union and the Opposition [essay]

1930: Letter to the Italian Left Communists

1929: Letter on the Opposition Press in France

1929: Disarmament and the United States of Europe [essay]

1929: Greetings to the Weekly The Militant

1929: The Austrian Crisis and Communism

1929: A Reply to the Chinese Oppositionists

1929: Bessedovsky’s “Revelations”

1929: The “Third Period” of the Comintern’s Mistakes

1930

1930: The History of the Russian Revolution (book) Significant work!

1930: Internationalism and the Theory of “Exceptionalism”

1930: Molotov’s Prosperity in Knowledge

1930: My Part in the October

1930: Notes of a Journalist

1930: Radek’s Novitiate – What is Social-Fascism?

1930: With Lenin Against Stalin

1930: La Verité and The Militant

1930: Opposition Serves the Bolshevik Revolution

1930: The Results Of The Sino-Soviet Conflict

1930: The Fundamental Principle Errors of Syndicalism

1930: Open Letter to the All Members of the Leninbund

1930: Lessons Of The Capitulations (Obituary Reflections)

1930: Unifying The Left Opposition

1930: As Pure and Transparent as Crystal (essay)

1930: The 5 Year Plan and World Unemployment

1930: The New Course in the Economy of the Soviet Union

1930: Open Letter to the Communist Party

1930: Stalin as a Theoretician

1930: Letter to Revolutionary Age

1930: An Open Letter to the Italian Left Communists (alternative translation)

1930: The Slogan of the National Assembly in China

1930: A Squeak in the Apparatus (A Popular Explanation of Rights and Lefts)

1930: A Letter on the Italian Revolution

1930: The Revolution in India – Its TASKS and its DANGERS

1930: To the Editorial Board of Prometeo

1930: The Party and the Left Opposition

1930: Introduction to The Russian Bolshevik-Leninists on the Present Situation

1930: The Turn in the Communist International and the Situation in Germany Significant work!

1930: Monatte Crosses the Rubicon

1930: World Unemployment and the First Five Year Plan

1930: My Life (autobiography) [Click Here for PDF version – 3.5 megbytes big!] Significant work!

1931

1931: The Problems of the Spanish Revolution

1931: Communism and Syndicalism [pamphlet]

1931: The Mistakes of Rightist Elements of the Communist League on the Trade Union Question

1931: The Bloc of the Left and the Right

1931: Factory Councils in Germany and Workers’ Control of Production

1931: Fragments of Truth from Under the Garbage of Slander

1931: Notes of a Journalist

1931: The Permanent Revolution (book) Significant work!

1931: The Permanent Revolution and the Canton Insurrection

1931: The Question of Trade Union Unity

1931: Russian-German Trade Relations

1931: Stalin and the Chinese Revolution – Facts and Documents

1931: The Strangled Revolution

1931: The Successes of Socialism and the Dangers of Adventurism

1931: Thermidor and Bonapartism

1931: Thermidorianism and Bonapartism

1931: The Trial of the Russian Mensheviks

1931: Very Significant Facts!

1931: What Is to Be Learned from the Moscow Trial?

1931: At the Fresh Grave of Kote Zinzadze

1931: The Revolution in Spain [pamphlet]

1931: The Case Of Comrade Ryazanov

1931: For the Spanish Revolution

1931: Ten Commandments of the Spanish Communist

1931: A New Slander Against D.B. Riazanov

1931: For Communist Unity in Spain

1931: The Spanish Revolution and the Dangers Threatening It

1931: The Catalonian Federation’s Platform

1931: Maurin and the Anarcho-Syndicalists

1931: The Catalonian Federation’s Platform

1931: The Character of the Revolution

1931: Maurin and the Anarcho-Syndicalists

1931: Problems of the Spanish Revolution

1931: A Letter About the Spanish Revolution

1931: The National Question in Catalonia

1931: A New Zig-zag and the New Dangers

1931: Nine-Tenths of Our Activities for the Revolution in Spain

1931: A Slander! Blackguards and Assistants

1931: Tactics Flowing from the Election Results

1931: Trotsky Greets Weekly Militant

1931: Trotsky’s Letter to the Pravda

1931: The Question of Workers’ Control of Production

1931: Workers’ Control of Production

1931: Against National Communism! (Lessons of the “Red Referendum”) (alternative translation)

1931: The Role of Strikes in a Revolution

1931: The Catalonian Separatists, Soviets and the Communists

1931: A Letter To Albert Treint [Letter on the German Revolution]

1931: Factory Councils and Workers’ Control of Production

1931: Trotsky Greets El Soviet

1931: Trotsky on Opposition and the Party in Spain

1931: [1st] Letter to the Communist League (alternative translation)

1931: On The Slogan of Soviets: From a Letter to Andres Nin

1931: Germany, the Key to the International Situation Significant work!

1931: The British Election and the Communists

1931: For a Workers’ United Front Against Fascism (extract published in The Militant)

1931: Tasks of the Left Opposition in England and India

1931: What Is a Revolutionary Situation?

1931: What Is Fascism?

1931: The Impending Danger of Fascism in Germany

1932

1932: Extract from Letter to the National Sections

1932: Family Relations Under the Soviets

1932: “The Foundations of Socialism” (series of articles)

1932: I See War with Germany

1932: Left Opposition and the Brandlerites

1932: Mill as a Stalinist Agent

1932: On the American Economic Crisis

1932: On the Disarmament Question (alternative version)

1932: On the Labor Party Question in the United States

1932: A Political Biography of Stalin

1932: Problems of the Chinese Revolution (collection of articles) Significant work!

1932: Trotsky Discusses World Situation (interview)

1932: What Next? Vital Questions for the German Proletariat (as published in The Militant) Significant work!

1932: The “Uprising” of Nov. 7

1932: Open Letter to the C.E.C. of the U.S.S.R.

1932: German Paper Interviews Trotsky

1932: Interview with Montag Morgen

1932: [2nd] Letter to the Communist League (alternative version from The Militant)

1932: Trotsky Greets Unser Kamf

1932: The Barbusse Congress

1932: Closer to the Proletarians of the Colored Races

1932: Hands Off Rosa Luxemburg! (as published in The Militant

1932: Letter to Alois Neurath

1932: A Letter to the Workers of Zurich

1932: Stalinism in Straits; Opposition on Upsurge

1932: Let Us Reenforce Our Offensive!

1932: Perspectives of the Upturn

1932: The Only Road (as published in The Militant) Significant work!

1932: Peasant War in China and the Proletariat (as published in The Militant)

1932: The Expulsion of Zinoviev

1932: German Bonapartism (as published in The Militant)

1932: Negotiations with Weisbord Suspended

1932: Prinkipo Letter, 1932 (letter) (as published in The Militant)

1932: September Plenum of C.I.

1932: The Soviet Economy in Danger (as published in The Militant)

1932: A Strategy of Action and Not of Speculation, Letter To Pekin Friends

1932: Four Years – Trotsky Greets Militant

1932: In Defense of October (Speech in Copenhagen, Denmark) (as published in The Militant) Significant work!

1932: Perspectives of American Marxism (as published in The Militant)

1932: The Stalinists and Trotsky’s Radio Speech to America

1932: Trotsky Sues for a Literary Forgery (letter)

1932: On the Suppressed Testament of Lenin (essay)

1932: International Pre-Conference of the Left Opposition Presents Thesis

1932: The Passage of Trotsky to Anvers – Open Letter to Vandervelde (as published in The Militant)

1933

1933: Alarm Signal! – Danger Draws Closer in U.S.S.R.

1933: Even Slander Needs Meaning

1933: Foreword to Leninism versus Stalinism

1933: The I.L.P. & the New International

1933: An Interview with B.J. Field (interview)

1933: The Left Socialists and Our Tasks

1933: New Falsifications of the Stalinists

1933: The Platform of the Brandler Group

1933: Problems of the Soviet Regime

1933: Stalin Prepares Treacherous Blow

1933: Stalin Reassures Hitler on Trotsky’s ‘Return’

1933: The Danger of Thermidor

1933: My Daughter’s Suicide

1933: A Note on Max Eastman

1933: “Soviet Economy in Danger”

1933: Stalin’s Denial

1933: Two Articles on Those Who Have Forgotten the ABCs

1933: Before the Decision (as published in The Militant)

1933: Austria Next in Order! (extract)

1933: On Hitler’s Victory

1933: The United Front for Defense: A Letter to a Social Democratic Worker (as published in The Militant)

1933: To the Austrian S.D. Opposition

1933: The Tragedy of the German Proletariat (as published in The Militant)

1933: Germany and the USSR

1933: Hitler and the Red Army (as published in The Militant)

1933: The Collapse of the C.P.G. and the Opposition’s Tasks

1933: Discussion of the German Tasks

1933: Historical Objectiveness ...

1933: Letter to South African Revolutionaries (letter)

1933: Apropos the Foreign Policy of the Stalinists

1933: The German Catastrophe

1933: Lessons of May Day in Austria

1933: On Zinoviev and Kamenev

1933: Trotsky Greets Red Flag, British Organ of L.O.

1933: What’s Happened to Rakovsky?

1933: C.I. Impotence Veils Itself with Parliamentary Cretinism

1933: Hitler’s ‘Disarmament’ and Prospects of War

1933: How Long Can Hitler Stay?

1933: Interview with Georges Simenon (interview)

1933: On “The Fourth of August”

1933: The Party in the Field of Art and Philosophy

1933: What Is National Socialism?

1933: Fascism and Democratic Slogans

1933: Fontamara (book review)

1933: It Is Necessary to Build Communist Parties and an International Anew (as published in The Militant) Significant work!

1933: It Is Impossible to Remain in the Same International with the Stalins, Manuilskys, Lozovskys & Co. (as published in The Militant)

1933: Whither the I.L.P. of Great Britain

1933: About the United Front with Grzezinsky

1933: Left Socialist Conference

1933: More on the Paris Conference

1933: The Trade Unions in Britain

1933: The Spanish “Kornilovs” and “Stalinists”

1933: The Class Nature of the Soviet State (essay) (as published in The Militant)

1933: Trotsky Writes to the British New Leader

1933: Hitler the Pacifist

1933: Maria Reese and the Comintern

1933: Our Present Tasks (as published in The Militant)

1933: Postscript to the Portrait of National Socialism

1933: German Perspectives

1933: On the Saar Question

1933: On the War in China

1934

1934: On the Jewish Question

1934: Notes of a Journalist

1934: Towards the Catastrophe

1934: Notes of a Journalist

1934: Are There Limits to the Fall?

1934: For the Fourth International

1934: On the Eve of the Congress

1934: Revisionism and Planning

1934: Unser Wort a Weekly – A Real Achievement

1934: Two Articles on Centrism

1934: Centrism and the 4th International

1934: A Statement on the Rakovsky Case

1934: A Centrist Attack on Marxism

1934: Once More on Centrism

1934: What is the Meaning of Rakovsky’s Surrender?

1934: Hitler’s Program

1934: A Program of Action for France Significant work!

1934: War and the Fourth International Significant work!

1934: A Greeting to New International

1934: Bonapartism and Fascism

1934: If America Should Go Communist

1934: Nationalism and Economic Life

1934: On the Kirov Assassination

1934: Fontamara (book review)

1934: Trotsky Answers Indictment – Links G.P.U. with Kirov Assassination

1935

1935: How the Stalinists Ruin the Morale of the Red Army

1935: A Trial Balance of the Stalin Amalgam

1935: The Right to Vote for Stalin Is Granted – “Soviet Democracy”

1935: The Workers’ State, Thermidor and Bonapartism (essay)

1935: Bolshevik-Leninists in U.S.S.R. Face New Frame-Up

1935: Centrist Alchemy Or Marxism?

1935: On the South African Thesis

1935: An Open Letter to the French Workers

1935: Luxemberg and the Fourth International

1935: Students at Edinburgh Offer Trotsky Rectorship

1935: Who Defends Russia? Who Defends Hitler?

1935: A Case for a Labor Jury

1935: Chen Tu-hsiu and the General Council

1935: How History Is Written Dished Up to Order by Stalin’s Savants on Frederick Engels Anniversary

1935: “Labels” and “Numbers”

1935: The Church Struggle Under Fascism

1935: ILP and the Fourth International

1935: Increasing Oppression the Path of Bureaucracy

1935: The Internationalists Need Our Help!

1935: On the Seventh World Congress of the Comintern

1935: Russia and the World Proletariat (essay)

1935: Stalin Frame-Up Mill at Work

1935: Preface to the Norwegian Edition of My Life

1935: Engels’ Letters to Kautsky

1935: Romain Rolland Executes an Assignment

1935: Sectarianism, Centrism and the Fourth International

1935: Committees of Action – Not Peoples Front

1935: Edouard Herriot – Politician of the Golden Mean

1935: How Did Stalin Defeat the Opposition? (essay)

1935: Lessons of October

1935: Not Hollow Preaching – But Clear Cut Slogans!

1935: Open Letter for the Fourth International

1936

1936: In the Columns of Pravda ...

1936: Cablegram from Leon Trotsky Hits Hearst and Daily Worker Lies

1936: The Class Nature of the Soviet State

1936: Entry into the Socialists in Poland

1936: Notes of a Journalist

1936: On the Soviet Section of the Fourth International

1936: “Trotsky Cables Denial to AP on Daily Worker Lies” (as published in the New York Times)

1936: Tell Workers the Truth About Stalin’s Hounding of Revolutionists in the Soviet Union

1936: The Treachery of the Spanish “Labor Party of Marxist Unity”

1936: 20,000 Oppositionists Expelled from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in Recent “Cleansing”

1936: Alfred Rosmer’s Book

1936: France at the Crossroads

1936: On the Stalin Interview

1936: Stalin Plans Wholesale Persecution

1936: Tasks of The Fourth International In Spain

1936: A Jingle of Lies to Please the ‘Master’

1936: On Dictators and the Heights of Oslo

1936: The Task in Spain

1936: The New Constitution of the USSR

1936: The Lesson of Spain (essay)

1936: Statement by Leon Trotsky in Reply to the Charges Made Against Him by the Tass Bureau (statement)

1936: An Interview with Leon Trotsky on the Recent Moscow Trial (interview)

1936: Trotsky in Norway (essay)

1936: The Revolution Betrayed (book) Significant work!

1936: How Lenin Studied Marx

1936: Notes of a Journalist

1936: The Moscow “Confessions”

1936: Once Again – The ILP

1936: Whither France? Significant work!

1937

1937: The Case of Leon Trotsky Significant work!

1937: The Stalin School of Falsification (book)[Click Here for PDF version] Significant work!

1937: On Democratic Centralism and the Regime

1937: The Lessons of Spain – The Last Warning

1937: Trotsky and the Iron Heel

1937: Zinoviev and Kamenev

1937: Thirst for Power (PDF)

1937: Pages From Trotsky’s Journal

1937: Thermidor and Anti-Semitism

1937: The Trial of the Danzig Trotskyists

1937: The Crimes of Stalin (preface)

1937: The Questions of Wendelin Thomas (letter)

1937: Stalinism and Bolshevism (essay)

1937: I Stake My Life! (speech) Significant work!

1937: London Buro Aids Stalin Frame-Ups by Refusal to Join Probe Commission

1937: On the Sino-Japanese War (letter)

1937: Pacifism and China (interview)

1937: A Tragic Lesson

1937: Trotsky Sees “Jap” Blow-up (interview)

1937: The Beginning of the End

1937: Drive to Aid C.N.T. Is Endorsed by L. Trotsky (telegram)

1937: A Letter to the Editor of the Modern Monthly (letter)

1937: Ninety Years of the Communist Manifesto

1937: Stalin on His Own Frame-Ups

1937: Swiss Police Arrest Assassins of Murdered G.P.U. Man, Reiss

1937: Bertram Wolfe on the Moscow Trials

1937: Coming Trials to Reveal Secret Plans of G.P.U.

1937: Ultralefts in General and Incurable Ultralefts in Particular

1937: It Is High Time to Launch a World Offensive Against Stalinism (open letter)

1937: Moscow-Amsterdam “Unity” – A Diplomatic Maneuver

1937: Not a Workers’ and Not a Bourgeois State?

1937: Once Again: The USSR and Its Defense

1937: Trotsky Urges Backing for Pioneer Publishers

1937: Answers to Questions of Journalists on Verdict of Dewey Commission

1937: Trotsky’s Telegram to the Commission

1938

1938: Listen to Trotsky in English on his radio broadcast on the founding of the Fourth International

1938: The Fifth Wheel

1938: Hue And Cry Over Kronstadt

1938: To the Publishers of De Nieuwe Fakkel and De Internationale

1938: Leon Sedov – Son, Friend, Fighter

1938: Trotsky Nails Fresh Attack on His Asylum

1938: Trotsky Sees Possibility of Foul Play in Death of His Son

1938: Hitler’s Austria Coup Aided by Moscow Trial

1938: The Priests of Half-Truth

1938: Stalin’s Trial as a Terrorist Demanded of League by Trotsky

1938: Trotsky Explains to Kirchwey

1938: Trotsky on Hearst

1938: Trotsky Reviews Elements of New Trial; Cites Efforts to Gag Him

1938: The Mexican Oil Expropriations

1938: On the Labor Party in the United States

1938: Learn To Think Learn To Think A Friendly Suggestion to Certain Ultra-Leftists

1938: “Trotsky Against Sneevliet”

1938: Art and Politics in Our Epoch

1938: Mexico and British Imperialism

1938: On Lovestone – No, It Is Not The Same!

1938: “It Is Necessary to Drive the Bureaucracy and the New Aristocracy Out of the Soviets”

1938: More on the Suppression of Kronstadt

1938: On My Conspiracy

1938: Trotsky Fears Fate of Klement, G.P.U. Victim

1938: Was Leon Sedoff Murdered?

1938: Damning Evidence in Sedoff Murder

1938: Freedom of the Press and the Working Class (pamphlet)

1938: Soviet-Japanese War Inevitable

1938: Trotsky Brands ‘Klement Letter’ as GPU Forgery

1938: Trotsky Tells of ‘Letter’ from Victim of G.P.U.

1938: Anti-Imperialist Struggle Is Key to Liberation

1938: ‘Fight Imperialism to Fight Fascism,’ Trotsky Tells Cuban Press

1938: New War Flows from Versailles Banditry

1938: Trade Unions and the Social Crisis

1938: Social-Patriotic Sophistry – The Question of the Defense of Czechoslovakia’s “National Independence”

1938: The Founding of the Fourth International

1938: On the Character of the Coming War

1938: Trotsky Predicts Stalin Will Now Seek an Understanding with Hitler

1938: Czechoslovakia: Toward a Decision

1938: Karl Kautsky [obiturary]

1938: Trotsky Defends Asylum in Slashing Reply to Toledano

1938: The Decisive Hour in France

1938: Leon Trotsky Hits Back at N.Y. Daily News Slanders

1938: The Transitional Program for Socialist Revolution (Pamphlet – in 3 parts) [Click Here for PDF version] Significant work!

1938: A Discussion with Trotsky on the Transitional Program (Interview)

1938: The USSR and Problems of the Transitional Epoch (extract from the Transitional Program)

1938: Their Morals and Ours (essay) Significant work!

1938: The Chinese Revolution

1938: On the National Question

1938: Nationalized Industry and Workers’ Management

1938: Twenty Years of Stalinist Degeneration

1939

1939: Correspondence on the Custody of His Grandson [letters written in 1938 and 1939]

1939: ‘Learn to Work in the Stalinist Manner’

1939: The Tragedy of Spain

1939: Clarity or Confusion?

1939: Lenin on Imperialism

1939: Intellectual Ex-Radicals and World Reaction

1939: On the Causes for the Defeat of the Spanish Revolution

1939: Spain, Stalin and Yezhov

1939: Krupskaya’s Death [Obituary]

1939: Why I Agreed to Appear Before the Dies Committee (excerpt)

1939: Forecasts

1939: Letter to Modern Quarterly

1939: Once Again on the Crisis of Marxism

1939: Only Labor Can Stop War (interview)

1939: Stalin’s Capitulation

1939: Their Friend Miaja

1939: What Lies Behind Stalin Bid for Agreement with Hitler?

1939: Where is the PSOP Going? [A correspondence between Marceau Pivert, Daniel Guerin and Leon Trotsky]

1939: Against the Stream

1939: Marxism in Our Time

1939: Problem of the Ukraine (as published in Socialist Appeal)

1939: Trotsky Greets Tresca on 40th Year as Fighter

1939: The Bonapartist Philosophy of the State

1939: A Step Towards Social Patriotism

1939: Moralists and Sycophants Against Marxism

1939: Three Conceptions of the Russian Revolution

1939: Open Letter to the Workers of India

1939: The Kremlin in World Politics

1939: “Progressive Paralysis” – The Second International on the Eve of the New War

1939: “Trotskyism” and the PSOP

1939: Independence of the Ukraine and Sectarian Muddleheads

1939: Democratic Feudalists and the Independence of the Ukraine

1939: Ignace Reiss – The Second Anniversary of His Death

1939: Stalin – The Temporary Holder of the Ukraine

1939: Trotsky Sees Closer Hitler-Stalin Ties

1939: Trotsky Statement to Press on Soviet-German Alliance

1939: Trotsky Writes on the War and the Soviet-Nazi Pact

1939: The USSR and the War

1939: Who Is Guilty of Starting the Second World War?

1939: Why Is Russia Mobilizing?

1939: Trotsky Tells British Paper He Will Not Write For It in Sharply Worded Statement

1939: Right of Revolutionary Optimism

1939: Trotsky Gives N.Y. Times Writer a Few Pointers

1939: The ABC of Materialist Dialectics [Click Here for PDF version]

1939: On Lenin’s Program

1939: Statement on Dies Backing Down

1939: Trotsky Raps Press Lies on Dies Query

1939: ‘Why I Consented to Appear Before the Dies Committee’

1939: For Grynszpan: Against Fascist Pogrom Gangs and Stalinist Scoundrels

1939: Behind the Kremlin Walls

1939: Lenin [Submission to The Encyclopædia Britannica on the Encyclopædia’s entry for “Lenin”]

1939: A Great New Writer

1940

1940: Balance Sheet of the Finnish Events

1940: Petty Bourgeois Moralists and the Proletarian Party (as published in Socialist Appeal)

1940: Letter to the Workers of the USSR (as printed in Socialist Appeal and reprinted after Trotsky’ assassination)

1940: The Political Backwardness of American Workers

1940: The May 24th Attempt to Assassinate Trotsky

1940: Trotsky Letter Exposes Stalin Role in Recent Assassination Attempt (slightly abridged version of the above)

1940: Dialectics Catches Up with Burnham and Shachtman

1940: GPU Tried to Cover Murder with Slander

1940: Nation Backs GPU

1940: The Reptile Breed of The Nation

1940: Trotsky Indicts the Kremlin’s Role in Europe’s Catastrophe

1940: We Do Not Change Our Course (Article)

1940: China and the Russian Revolution

1940: Letter to the Herald Tribune

1940: Trotsky Nails Talk of Almazan “Plot”

1940: After Burnham – Macdonald (letter extract)

1940: The Comintern and GPU [One of Trotsky’s last articles]

1940: Some Questions on American Problems (draft article)

1940: Stalin Still Hitler’s Vassal, Writes Trotsky (statement)

1940: The “Tanaka Memorial”

1940: The Kremlin’s Role in the War

1940: The Character of the Russian Revolution as Foreseen by Plekhanov, Lenin and Trotsky (excerpt from Stalin)

1940: Trade Unions in the Epoch of Imperialist Decay

1940: The Second World War

1940: The Class, the Party and the Leadership (unfinished draft article)

1940: Trotsky’s Last Article: Bonapartism, Fascism and War

1940: The Jewish Problem

1940: Stalin Seeks My Death

1940: Manifesto of the Fourth International

1940: Stalin – An Appraisal of the Man and his Influence

The Last Letters of Leon Trotsky:

1940: On Japan’s Plans for Expansion

1940: On A “Socialist” Ally of Chamberlain

1940: Letter on the Manifesto of the Fourth International

1940: On Conscription

1940: Misfortune of an Intellectual

1940: Nipping A New GPU Lie

1940: To Generous Friends

1940: On A Petty Bourgeois Philistine

1940: How to Defend Ourselves

1940: How to Really Defend Democracy

1940: A Letter to C. Charles

1940: On Dewey’s Philosophy

1940: Another Thought on Conscription

1940: Welcome to “Our Small Garrison”

1940: Trotsky’ Last Three Letters

Some Notes Written by Leon Trotsky in August 1940:

1940: On The Future of Hitler’s Armies

Some works published later

but written in or around 1940

1942: In Defense of Marxism (collection of articles, letters) [Click here for PDF version] Significant work!

1944: Fascism (pamphlet first published in 1944)

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