14 results for 'Leon Trotsky'

 In Leon Trotsky, Paul Le Blanc delves deep to understand Trotsky's complex character, relationships, actions and ideas. Interweaving dramatic historical events with Trotsky's...

THE PULSE-POUNDING TRUE STORY BEHIND THE ASSASSINATION THAT CHANGED THE COURSE OF HISTORY'Elegant, unshowy and gripping in the manner of a dependable le Carre' THE TIMES'The page-turning pace of a...

In this sharply polemical account, Leon Trotsky draws up a balance sheet of the world's first successful workers' revolution. Written primarily for members of the newly created Communist...

In January of 1905, thousands of Russian workers, led by a priest on the payroll of the Tsar himself, marched to the gates of the Winter Palace with the intention of humbly petitioning their ruler...

The story of contemporary China typically dates back to Mao's 1949 revolution. But in this classic work of Marxist scholarship, historian Harold Isaacs uncovers how workers and peasants struggled for...

Regarded by many as among the most powerful works of history ever written, this book offers an unparalleled account of one of the most pivotal and hotly debated events in world history. This book,...

Following his expulsion from the Soviet Union in 1929, Leon Trotsky promoted the birth of an International Anti-Stalinist Communist movement which considered itself in opposition to the Communist...

From Marx to Gramsci offers a readable introduction to the historical contexts, lives, and revolutionary ideas of six central thinkers in the Marxist tradition-Karl Marx, Frederick Engels, Rosa...

The dominant view of the Russian Revolution of 1917 is of a movement led byprominent men like Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky. Despite the demonstrations offemale workers for 'bread and herrings',...

A rich, uniquely well-sourced and deeply insightful analysis of global affairs that lays bare the potential risk of a third world war. A long period of peace and stable relations between the world's...

From her prominent role as Leon Trotsky's secretary, to the agitational and educational work conducted by her organization News and Letters, the impact of Raya Dunayevskaya's thinking on the Left in...

Why did the 1917 American Red Cross Mission to Russia include more financiers than medical doctors? Rather than caring for the victims of war and revolution, its members seemed more intent on...

Renowned Marxist scholar Michael Lwy offers an indispensable assessment of an enduringly fascinating revolutionary.Vibrant, insightful, and wide-ranging, Lwy's essays illuminate the heroic,...

Almost 80 years after Leon Trotsky founded the Fourth International, there are now Trotskyist organizations in 57 countries, including most of Western Europe and Latin America. Yet no Trotskyist...