Leon Trotsky Speaks
Publisher: Pathfinder
Published: Jan 01, 1972
Number of pages: 402
ISBN-13: 9780873482226
Description: The major political questions of the 20th century, discussed by one of the most important communist leaders. Includes a defense of the right to revolution, made in 1906 in the prisoner's dock of the tsarist courts; speeches as a leader of the revolutionary government following the Bolshevik-led revolution; and "I Stake My Life," Trotsky's 1937 defense of his 20-year Bolshevik course and challenge to the organizers of Joseph Stalin's frame-up trials.