Leon Trotsky Speaks

Trotsky, Leon; edited by Lovell, Sarah
Publisher:  Pathfinder Press
Year Published:  1972
Pages:  336pp   Resource Type:  Book

A selection of Trotsky's speeches.

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Table of Contents

Preface

Part One: Preparing the Revolution

1. On Trail for Insurrection
2. Zimmerwald Manifesto Against the War
3. The February Revolution and Its Results
On the Eve of a Revolution
Two Faces - Internal Forces of the Russian Revolution
The Growing Conflict
War or Peace?
4. All Power to the Soviets
5. President of the Petrograd Soviet
Acceptance Speech
Answer to Skobelev
To the Soviets of the Northern Region
6. Organizing the Insurrection
In Answer to a Rumor
Three Resolutions
Brother Cossacks!
Message to the Garrison
Report to the Extraordinary Session
The Overthrow of the Provisional Government
To the Army Committees and Soldiers' Soviets
Walkout of the Mensheviks and Social Revolutionaries
On the Arrest of Socialist Ministers
The Organization of Power

Part Two: Defending the Revolution

7. Commissar of Foreign Affairs
For Peace - Against Secret Diplomacy
Appeal to the Toiling, Oppressed, and Exhausted Peoples of Europe
8. A Word to the Russian Workers and Peasants on Our Friends and Enemies, and How to
Preserve and Strengthen the Soviet Republic
9. Civil War
Lenin Wounded
Recruiting the Red Army
Strike the Enemy, Spare the Prisoner!
10. Tasks of the Twelfth Congress of the Russian Communist Party
11. For the Internationalist Perspective
On the Road to the European Revolution
Prospects and Tasks in the East
12. The War Danger - The Defense Policy and the Opposition

Part Three: Preparing Anew

13. Open Letter to the Workers of the USSR
14. Interview from Prinkipo
15. In Defense of the Russian Revolution
16. Farewell to Prinkipo
17. I Stake My Life!
18. The Founding of the Fourth International
19. On the Eve of World War II
20. Testament

Notes
Index
Books and Pamphlets by Leon Trotsky

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