Literature and Art: A listing of Trotsky’s views on Marxism and the Arts
1934: Towards the Catastrophe
1940: On A Petty Bourgeois Philistine
1932: Prinkipo Letter, 1932 (letter) (as published in The Militant)
1934: Notes of a Journalist
1928: Who Is Leading The Comintern Today? 1931: The Question of Workers’ Control of Production
1919: Great Days
In 1940, he was murdered by a Stalinist assassin at his home in exile, in Mexico. 1924: Literature and Revolution
Soviet Commissar of Foreign Affairs 1917–1918 and Commissar of Military and Naval Affairs 1918–1924. 1917: On the Eve of a Revolution
1916: On the Events in Dublin
1917: Democracy, Pacifism and Imperialism (article)
1940: The Kremlin’s Role in the War
97 – 102).. 2. Always Revolutions. 1940: Welcome to “Our Small Garrison”
Revolutions are always verbose. 1922: The Question of the United Front
1930: World Unemployment and the First Five Year Plan
1922: The Trade Unions and the Soviet State
All footnotes and endotes are combined herein. 1939: Krupskaya’s Death [Obituary]
1938: On the National Question
1938: Learn To Think Learn To Think A Friendly Suggestion to Certain Ultra-Leftists
1938: Czechoslovakia: Toward a Decision
1924: The Lessons of October (essay – 182k-multi-part) [Click Here for PDF version] Significant work! 1938: The Chinese Revolution
What will “International Red Day” Bring? 1939: The Kremlin in World Politics
1939: A Step Towards Social Patriotism
With onset of the October revolution in 1917, Trotsky was instrumental in the transfer of total political power to the Soviets. Significant work! 1904: Our Political Tasks (book – 6 files)
1931: Ten Commandments of the Spanish Communist
1931: At the Fresh Grave of Kote Zinzadze
1931: Trotsky Greets Weekly Militant
1922: Prospects of Revolution
1931: Against National Communism! 1922: From the ECCI to the Seine Federation of the French Communist Party (Summer 1922)
1940: Stalin – An Appraisal of the Man and his Influence, The Last Letters of Leon Trotsky:
1934: War and the Fourth International Significant work! 1938: A Discussion with Trotsky on the Transitional Program (Interview)
1931: What Is Fascism? 1922: Summary of Discussion on French Question
1933: On the War in China, 1934: On the Jewish Question
He stands in front of a brick wall. To be part of this effort write the Administrator of the Trotsky Internet Archive. 1921: The March Movement in Germany
1936: Entry into the Socialists in Poland
1940: The Character of the Russian Revolution as Foreseen by Plekhanov, Lenin and Trotsky (excerpt from Stalin)
1940: On Japan’s Plans for Expansion
1925: Where Is Britain Going? 1934: Once More on Centrism
1931: Factory Councils and Workers’ Control of Production
1939: “Trotskyism” and the PSOP
1939: ‘Why I Consented to Appear Before the Dies Committee’
Civility and Politeness as a Necessary Lubricant in Daily Relations, On the Slogan of the “United States of Europe”. 1939: The Bonapartist Philosophy of the State
1917: Peace and Reaction (article)
Who is Destroying the Railways? 1930: Open Letter to the All Members of the Leninbund
1935: The Workers’ State, Thermidor and Bonapartism (essay)
of Great Britain
1922: Political Perspectives (Late 1922?) 1922: The Lessons of May Day (alternative translation)
1932: September Plenum of C.I. 1931: Trotsky on Opposition and the Party in Spain
– Danger Draws Closer in U.S.S.R.
1924: May Day in the East & the West
1937: Ninety Years of the Communist Manifesto
1936: Trotsky in Norway (essay)
1938: Soviet-Japanese War Inevitable
1927: The Russian Opposition: Questions and Answers [Interview], 1928: The Third International After Lenin (A Draft Criticism of the Communist International) [thesis] [Click Here for PDF version] Significant work! 1921: A School of Revolutionary Strategy
1933: On the Saar Question
(article)
1922: Bourgeois Public Opinion, Social Democracy and Communism (extract from Between Red and White – alternative translation)
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]
1936: France at the Crossroads
1923: Theses on Industry
Trotsky Tells of ‘Letter’ from Victim of G.P.U. 1937: The Case of Leon Trotsky Significant work! 1922: Report on the French Question
1934: A Centrist Attack on Marxism
1931: The Role of Strikes in a Revolution
1905: The events in Petersburg
1908: Leo Tolstoy, Poet & Rebel (literary criticism/article)
1931: The Catalonian Federation’s Platform
1922: Communism and Freemasonry
1930: Radek’s Novitiate – What is Social-Fascism? 1935: On the South African Thesis
1922: A Glimpse of Soviet Democracy
1922: Trotsky’ Military Writings, Volume 5 (collection of articles, essays & lectures) For a PDF version, click here. 1923: From the Old Family to the New
Lenin, of the Russian Revolution. 1919: Great Times(to Class Struggle, article)
1934: Centrism and the 4th International
1931: Workers’ Control of Production
1917: The July Uprising (article)
1916: The National Principle
1937: The Beginning of the End
1937: A Letter to the Editor of the Modern Monthly (letter)
1935: Increasing Oppression the Path of Bureaucracy
Vladimir Lenin helped put Marxism into action and conjoined his interpretation of it with Marx's ideals. 1924: Class and Art – Culture Under the Dictatorship
1917: Blood and Iron (speech)
1922: Resolution on the French Question (Alternative translation by John Riddell)
Written: 1920. Which was called Marxism-Leninism, which then later came the Communist worldview. 1930: An Open Letter to the Italian Left Communists (alternative translation)
1932: The Barbusse Congress
1932: Perspectives of the Upturn
Part I | Part II
1939: Once Again on the Crisis of Marxism
Open Letter to the C.E.C. 1940: Stalin Still Hitler’s Vassal, Writes Trotsky (statement)
1936: Cablegram from Leon Trotsky Hits Hearst and Daily Worker Lies
1933: The Class Nature of the Soviet State (essay) (as published in The Militant)
1933: Germany and the USSR
1936: Notes of a Journalist
1939: The USSR and the War
1925: Lenin [book]
1924: Perspectives of World Development [94k]
1940: Letter to the Workers of the USSR (as printed in Socialist Appeal and reprinted after Trotsky’ assassination)
1922: The New Economic Policy of Soviet Russia and the Perspectives of the World Revolution
1934: Notes of a Journalist
1935: On the Seventh World Congress of the Comintern
Soviet Commissar of Foreign Affairs 1917–1918 and Commissar of Military and Naval Affairs 1918–1924. 1939: Letter to Modern Quarterly
Using the name "Lvov", he wrote and printed leaflets … 1927: Platform of the Opposition [Click Here for PDF version] Significant work! 1938: Trotsky Predicts Stalin Will Now Seek an Understanding with Hitler
1933: New Falsifications of the Stalinists
1910: The Intelligentsia and Socialism, 1911: The Bankruptcy of Individual Terrorism
1917: The Struggle for State Power (pamphlet)
1933: Discussion of the German Tasks
1939: On the Causes for the Defeat of the Spanish Revolution
Bread for the Hungary! 1931: A Slander! 1933: The Trade Unions in Britain
1928: The Theses of Comrade Radek
1923: On the Slogan of the “United States of Europe” (contribution to a discussion)
1935: Chen Tu-hsiu and the General Council
1931: For the Spanish Revolution
1930: Open Letter to the Communist Party
Trotsky's Military Writings and Speeches, Volume 3 (1920) 1920– year of the war with Poland. 1917: Democracy, Pacifism and Imperialism
~ Trotsky, Leon (1879-1940) Leon Trotsky was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and theorist, Soviet politician, and the founder and first leader of the Red Army. All contemporary references by the translator, Brian Pearce. 1921: The Main Lesson of the Third Congress
1930: Stalin as a Theoretician
1923: Civility and Politeness as a Necessary Lubricant in Daily Relations
Leon Trotsky around 1940, The Trotsky Archive, marxist.org . 1940: After Burnham – Macdonald (letter extract)
Who Defends Hitler? 1938: The Transitional Program for Socialist Revolution (Pamphlet – in 3 parts) [Click Here for PDF version] Significant work! 1925: Twenty Years After 1905
1919: To Comrades Of the Spartacus League
1922: On the United Front (alternative translation)
1907: The Soviet and the Revolution
1937: The Questions of Wendelin Thomas (letter)
1901: On Optimism and Pessimism; on the 20th Century and on Many Other Issues
Letters to Belgium: A collection of Trotsky’s letters to the Belgian Trotskyists
1939: For Grynszpan: Against Fascist Pogrom Gangs and Stalinist Scoundrels
What will “International Red Day” Bring? 1930: Unifying The Left Opposition
Who is Condemning the Population to Hunger and Every Other Form of Hardship? 1933: C.I. 1917: The Peace Program and the Revolution OR [the redited/translated version from Fourth International]. 1938: Leon Trotsky Hits Back at N.Y. Daily News Slanders
1933: A Note on Max Eastman
A reference to the debate in the Russian Communist Party over the Red Army’s use of thousands of officers and military specialists from the old tsarist army. 1934: What is the Meaning of Rakovsky’s Surrender? and the Opposition’s Tasks, Apropos the Foreign Policy of the Stalinists, C.I. 1936: On the Stalin Interview
On the German Revolution: A Speech to the Moscow Metal Workers, Lenin – The Philistine and the Revolutionary, Class and Art – Culture Under the Dictatorship, First Five Years of the Communist International, Against Bureaucracy, Progressive and Unprogressive, The Letter of Comrade Trotsky to the Plenum of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party, Towards Capitalism or Towards Socialism? 1937: A Tragic Lesson
1938: Trotsky Fears Fate of Klement, G.P.U. 1938: New War Flows from Versailles Banditry
of the U.S.S.R. Closer to the Proletarians of the Colored Races, Stalinism in Straits; Opposition on Upsurge, A Strategy of Action and Not of Speculation, Letter To Pekin Friends, The Stalinists and Trotsky’s Radio Speech to America, International Pre-Conference of the Left Opposition Presents Thesis, The Passage of Trotsky to Anvers – Open Letter to Vandervelde. 1924: Against Bureaucracy, Progressive and Unprogressive, 1925: The Letter of Comrade Trotsky to the Plenum of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party
Trotsky became involved in revolutionary activities in 1896 after moving to the harbor town of Nikolayev (now Mykolaiv) on the Ukrainian coast of the Black Sea. Lev Davidovich Bronstein. 1930: The Turn in the Communist International and the Situation in Germany Significant work! 1934: A Program of Action for France Significant work! 1921: Summary Speech
1937: Stalinism and Bolshevism (essay)
1921: The March Revolutionary Movement in Germany (Personal Notes)
1932: The Soviet Economy in Danger (as published in The Militant)
1935: Sectarianism, Centrism and the Fourth International
1937: Trotsky Urges Backing for Pioneer Publishers
1927: Hankow and Moscow
1940: The Political Backwardness of American Workers
1944: Fascism (pamphlet first published in 1944). 1905: Open Letter to Professor P.N. 1939: Clarity or Confusion? 1929: The Groupings in the Communist Opposition
(extract)
1938: On Lovestone – No, It Is Not The Same! 1925: Dialectical Materialism and Science
1918: Trotsky’s Military Writings, Volume 1 (collection of articles, essays & lectures) For a PDF version, click here. Work, Discipline, and Order to Save the Socialist Soviet Republic, The Principles of Democracy and Proletarian Dictatorship, To the Spartacus League of Germany and the Communist Party of German Austria, Invitation to the First World Congress [of the Comintern], Manifesto Of the Communist International to the Workers Of the World, Report on the Communist Party Of the Soviet Union and the Red Army, Order Of the Day Number 83 to the Red Army and Navy, En Route: Thoughts on the Progress Of the Proletarian Revolution, French Socialism on the Eve Of Revolution, Order Of The Day Number 83 To The Red Army And Navy, Speech on Comrade Zinoviev’s Report on the Role of the Party, A Letter to a French Syndicalist About the Communist Party, On the Policy of the KADP (Communist Workers Party of Germany), The March Revolutionary Movement in Germany (Personal Notes), Speech Delivered at the Second World Conference of Communist Women, The Red Army to the General Staff Of the Revolution, Theses of the Third World Congress on the International Situation and the Tasks of the Comintern, Speech on the Italian Question at the Third Congress of the Communist International, Speech on Comrade Radek’s Report on “Tactics of the Comintern” a the Third Congress, Speech on Comrade Lenin’s Report: “Tactics of the Russian Communist Party”, Report on “The Balance Sheet” of the Third Congress of the Communist International, From the ECCI to the Central Committee of the French Communist Party, From the ECCI to the Marseilles Convention of the French Communist Party, Speech on Comrade Zinoviev’s Report “The Tactics of the Comintern” at the Eleventh Party Conference, The Red Army to the General Staff of the Revolution, Summary Speech at the Eleventh Party Conference, The Economic Boom and the International Labor Movement, Resolution of the ECCI on the French Communist Party, Bourgeois Public Opinion, Social Democracy and Communism, Letter of the CC of the RCP, to the Session of the Enlarged ECCI, The Communists and the Peasantry in France, French Communism and the Position of Comrade Rappoport, From the ECCI to the Seine Federation of the French Communist Party, From the ECCI to the Paris Convention of the French Communist Party, The Fifth Anniversary of the October Revolution and the Fourth World Congress of the Communist International, Speech in Honour of the Communist International, The New Economic Policy of Soviet Russia and the Perspectives of the World Revolution, The Economic Situation of Soviet Russia from the Standpoint of the Socialist Revolution, Five Years of Russian Revolution and the Prospects of the World Revolution, A Militant Labour Program for the French Communist Party, The Position of the Republic and the Tasks of Young Workers, A Necessary Discussion with Our Syndicalist Comrades, Preface to The Communist Movement in France. Leon Trotsky 1933: The United Front for Defense: A Letter to a Social Democratic Worker (as published in The Militant)
Leon Trotsky’s essay on Vladimir Lenin is historically significant not because it is trustworthy in its judgments but because it is unique. The Trotsky Internet Archive Index Sorted by Individual Sets of Years: 1901–1910 | 1911–1917 | 1918–1919 | 1920 | 1921 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 1925–1926 | 1927 | 1928–1929 | 1930 | 1931 | 1932 | 1933 | 1934 | 1935 | 1936 | 1937 | 1938 | 1939 | 1940, A complete listing of the writings of Leon Trotsky in e-book format is here. 1938: Art and Politics in Our Epoch
1933: Maria Reese and the Comintern
In November 1932, Robert Capa was just a darkroom boy working at Dephot (a famous photoagency that the time). 1930: Notes of a Journalist
1933: Interview with Georges Simenon (interview)
1936: On Dictators and the Heights of Oslo
1938: Karl Kautsky [obiturary]
1921: Speech Delivered at the Second World Conference of Communist Women
1939: Lenin [Submission to The Encyclopædia Britannica on the Encyclopædia’s entry for “Lenin”]
1919: Rallying the Army During the Civil War (speech)
1921: Letter to Comrade Monatte
1937: Drive to Aid C.N.T. 1937: Stalin on His Own Frame-Ups
1933: Foreword to Leninism versus Stalinism
Is Endorsed by L. Trotsky, Swiss Police Arrest Assassins of Murdered G.P.U. 1931: The Character of the Revolution
1935: Luxemberg and the Fourth International
1924: First Five Years of the Communist International Volume I Significant work! 1932: Interview with Montag Morgen
1940: Manifesto of the Fourth International
A PDF of a 1959 SWP produced bibliography of Trotsky’s writings is available here, The Trotsky Internet Archive Subject Indexes/Collected Writings Series
1930: My Part in the October
1935: Stalin Frame-Up Mill at Work
Many of Trotsky’s writings remains to be translated from the original Russian. Leon Trotsky's Name Lev Bronshtein was exiled to Siberia in 1898. 1934: Revisionism and Planning
1933: What Is National Socialism? 1923: The Anarcho-Syndicalist Prejudices Again! 1921: From the ECCI to the Central Committee of the French Communist Party
1940: Letter on the Manifesto of the Fourth International
Inspiring the Red Army April 1919 Leon Trotsky. 1936: How Lenin Studied Marx
1936: An Interview with Leon Trotsky on the Recent Moscow Trial (interview)
1937: Pages From Trotsky’s Journal
1933: It Is Impossible to Remain in the Same International with the Stalins, Manuilskys, Lozovskys & Co. (as published in The Militant)
1922: The Communists and the Peasantry in France (alternative translation)
1940: Nipping A New GPU Lie
(as published in The Militant
1930: Opposition Serves the Bolshevik Revolution
1921: On l’Humanité, the Central Organ Of the French Party
(Report to the 7th All-Russia Congress of Soviets of Workers’, Peasants’, Red Army Men’s and Working Cossacks’ Deputies, December 7, 1919, (Theses of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party) February 4, 1920, February 24, 1920, No. 1937: I Stake My Life! 1925: Jacob Sverdlov [memorial essay]
My reevaluation of the legacy of Leon Trotsky is largely due to my belated exposure to the left communist tradition. Leon Trotsky, Marxist revolutionary and theorist, Soviet politician, and the founder and first leader … 1931: The Catalonian Federation’s Platform
1939: Trotsky Sees Closer Hitler-Stalin Ties
1932: Trotsky Discusses World Situation (interview)
1930: Internationalism and the Theory of “Exceptionalism”
1940: Dialectics Catches Up with Burnham and Shachtman
1923: The Tasks of Communist Education, 1924: How Lenin Spoke on the Platform
Is Endorsed by L. Trotsky (telegram)
1935: The Church Struggle Under Fascism
(speech) Significant work! 1932: Stalinism in Straits; Opposition on Upsurge
1939: Their Friend Miaja
1919: Order Out of Chaos (as published in Socialist Appeal)
1934: Trotsky Answers Indictment – Links G.P.U. 1932: The Stalinists and Trotsky’s Radio Speech to America
Lenin on His Fiftieth Birthday
He was the architect of the Soviet State, led the Bolshevik Revolution, and founded the It Is Impossible to Remain in the Same International with the Stalins, Manuilskys, Lozovskys & Co. What is the Meaning of Rakovsky’s Surrender?