Writings of Leon Trotsky [1932]

In 1932 Leon Trotsky, the Russian revolutionary who had been exiled from the Soviet Union he had helped to create, was in the fourth year of his exile in Turkey. He was finishing the last volume of his monumental History of the Russian Revolution and he wrote several pamphlets urging united front action against the rising danger of fascism in Germany.

In addition he found time to write the many pamphlets, articles, interviews, letters, and press statements collected here - about the crisis of the Soviet economy; the Japanese invasion of Manchuria; the peasant war in China; the revolutionary future of the oppressed colored races; morality and the family; pacifism and disarmament; the ultraleftism then being practiced by the Communist International; the falsification of Soviet history; Stalin's slanders about Rosa Luxemburg; the second expulsion of Zinoviev and Kamenev from the Soviet Communist Party; the nature of 'proletarian' literature; the perspectives of American Marxism; problems of the International Left Opposition; the Soviet edict revoking the citizenship of Trotsky and his family; the text of his CBS radio speech to the United States - and more. May of these 85 selections have never before been published in English.