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Lev Davidovich Bronstein [b] (7 November [O.S. 26 October] 1879 – 21 August 1940), better known as Leon Trotsky, [c] was a Soviet politician, revolutionary, and political theorist. He was a central figure in the 1905 Revolution , [ 3 ] October Revolution of 1917, Russian Civil War , and establishment of the Soviet Union .
Trotsky: A Biography is a biography of the Marxist theorist and revolutionary Leon Trotsky (1879–1940) written by the English historian Robert Service, then a professor in Russian history at the University of Oxford. It was first published by Macmillan in 2009 and later republished in other languages.
The following is a chronological list of books by Leon Trotsky, a Marxist theoretician, including hardcover and paperback books and pamphlets published during his life and posthumously during the years immediately following his assassination in the northern summer of 1940. Included are the original Russian or German language titles and ...
On 22 January 1918, an overwhelming majority of the Central Rada voted in favour of Ukrainian independence, which was subsequently proclaimed in the Fourth Universal of the Ukrainian Central Council. Trotsky was the leading advocate of the "neither war nor peace" policy, and on 28 January 1918 announced that Soviet Russia considered the war ...
History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviks: Us Military Intervention in Soviet Russia 1918–1919. St Petersburg, FL: Red and Black Publishers. Nelson, J. C. (2019). The Polar Bear Expedition: The Heroes of America's Forgotten Invasion of Russia, 1918–1919. New York: William Morrow. Patenaude, B. M. (2002).
In January 1918, the Central Powers demanded secession of all occupied territories of the former Russian Empire. The Soviets sent a new peace delegation led by Leon Trotsky, which aimed to stall the negotiations while awaiting revolutions in Central Europe.
Trotsky's Military Writings are a voluminous compilation of articles, essays and lectures on military theory by Russian revolutionary, Leon Trotsky during the course of the Russian Civil War with the formation of the Red Army. [1] In his writings, Trotsky notably expressed his views that military doctrine was an art rather than a empirical ...
In The Stalin School of Falsification, Trotsky quotes Bukharin's 1918 pamphlet, From the Collapse of Czarism to the Fall of the Bourgeoisie, which was re-printed in 1923 by the party publishing house, Proletari. Bukharin explains and embraces Trotsky's theory of permanent revolution in this pamphlet: "The Russian proletariat is confronted more ...