The Military Writings and Speeches of Leon Trotsky Vol 4

Soviet Russia in the years 1921-1923 saw the ending of the civil war fighting. As the Red Army moved on to a peace footing, its leader, Leon Trotsky, fought to prepare it for new tasks, ina  period in which the destiny of the Russian Revolution was closely bound up with the development of the working class internationally. It was a time for study, for training and for drawing the lessons of the Army's first years. In these years, Trotsky says, the history of the Red Army was in large part the history of the working class itself.

The analysis he makes in this, the fourth of the five-volume series, is a major contribution to present-day knowledge of the Russian Revolution. Suppressed fo decades in the Soviet Union, Trotsky's military writings and speeches are here published in English for the first time.