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Reassessing Trotsky's biography of Stalin

John Riddell — 2019-02-03T18:14:40Z

The new edition of Leon Trotsky's biography of Joseph Stalin, published in 2016 by Wellred Books, is a significant contribution to our understanding of Trotsky's thinking in the last years before his assassination in August 1940.

- Reviews section / Trotsky, Reviews, Historical events and figures

Lenin and Trotsky confronting the bureaucracy

Éric Toussaint — 2017-03-19T07:16:37Z

This study was first prepared for a training course and presented in the summer of 1989. The French version was published on January 21, 2016 http://www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article37007">on the occasion of the 92nd anniversary of Lenin's death, followed by an English translation. The last part of the text titled “The struggle of Leon Trotsky, Rosa Luxemburg and the Fourth International for a Socialist Democracy” has been added in January 2017.

- Features / Marxism, Trotsky, Historical events and figures, Features

The Institute Pantelis Pouliopoulos and the legacy of Greek Trotskyism

2015-08-28T12:27:13Z

On August 6, Left Voice interviewed Kostas Skordoulis and Yanis Felekis, leading members of the group OKDE-Spartakos and founding members of the Institute for Political and Social Research Center Pantelis Pouliopoulos (IPSR Pouliopoulos).

- Features / Greece, Fourth International, Trotsky

“A most intelligent and insightful presentation of Trotsky's thought and historical action”

Michael Löwy — 2015-05-03T11:06:41Z

This new intellectual and political biography of Lev Davidovitch doesn't pretend to bring sensational new discoveries from the archives in Moscow, but it gives us a wonderful introduction to the ideas and struggles of the founder of the Red Army. Sympathetic but even-handed, it emphasizes the greatness of the revolutionary thinker and leader, without ignoring his shortcomings. The hostile biographers, from Robert Service to Peter Beilherz are criticized and rejected, but their arguments are considered with attention. In short, this is a most intelligent and insightful presentation of Trotsky's thought and historical action.

- Reviews section / Fourth International, Trotsky, Reviews

Trotsky lives!

Paul Le Blanc — 2010-01-01T16:25:45Z

Robert Service has written, to great acclaim, a new biography of Leon Trotsky. “Trotsky moved like a bright comet across the political sky,” Service tells us.

- IV419 - December 2009 / Trotsky, Reviews

The Russian Revolution - Ninety Years On

David Mandel — 2007-11-05T20:21:15Z

The October Revolution of 1917 was the most influential political event of the twentieth century. But since history is written by the victors, it is not well known that October was the opening shot of a vast and powerful challenge to capitalism that swept the industrial world and had echoes in the colonial countries.

- IV394 - November 2007 / Russia, Trotsky, Historical events and figures

The Marxism of Trotsky's "Results and Prospects"

Michael Löwy — 2006-09-09T14:53:09Z

Trotsky's theory of permanent revolution, as sketched for the first time in his essay Results and Prospects (1906), was one of the most astonishing political breakthroughs in Marxist thinking at the begining of the XXth century.

- Features / Marxism, Trotsky, Features

Stalinism and Bolshevism

Daniel Bensaïd — 2005-12-16T18:13:13Z

This article, written for the Italian magazine Erre, reviews how well Trotsky's 1937 pamphlet stands the test of time in examining the origins of Stalinism - and discusses what needs to be reformulated today.

- Daniel Bensaïd archive / Marxism, Trotsky, Daniel Bensaid

Trotsky and culture

Michel Lequenne — 2000-12-10T00:00:00Z

Is the recent republication of a French edition of Leon Trotsky's "Literature and Revolution" a sign of a resurgence of interest in Trotsky in our epoch of (anything but innocent) confusion between Bolshevism and Stalinism?

- IV326 - December 2000 / Trotsky

Introduction

2000-10-07T00:00:00Z

This dossier, appearing shortly after the 60th anniversary of Trotsky's assassination - a crime denied by its authors and their successors for more than 50 years - deals with some aspects of Trotsky's theoretical legacy. More than a homage - which would certainly be merited - we have attempted to respond to the question of in what respect, sixty years after his death, the theoretical contribution of Trotsky retains relevance.

- IV324 - October 2000 / Marxism, Fourth International, Trotsky