"Tens of thousands of people beat in huge waves against the walls of the People's Palace… The air seemed impregnated with an electric current, such as is felt at the most critical moments of a revolution."The Russian October Revolution, for the first time, placed power in the hands of the working class and changed the course of world history. A succinct first-hand account, this text was written to answer the distortions of bourgeois apologists and reformists, and arm the revolution...

Notre civilisation est celle du manichéisme. La planète se scinde en deux Empires antagonistes, l'Empire du Bien et l'Empire du Mal. L'Empire du Bien est l'Empire du Droit, de la Justice, du Respect de l'Individu, de la Raison. Les autorités morales y prêchent l'amour du prochain aux fidèles : 'Ne fais pas à autrui ce que tu ne voudrais pas qu'on te fasse'. Dans l'Empire du Mal, au contraire, des autorités morales dépravées incitent des individus ivres de haine et de sang à faire à autrui ...

É possível que nenhuma outra compilação de textos de Leon Trotsky esteja tão atual e pertinente à conjuntura brasileira quanto o que é apresentado em Como esmagar o fascismo. O Brasil vive um momento delicado que provoca e desafia aqueles que lutaram contra a ditadura militar e que vivem sob uma democracia, imperfeita como a democracia liberal sempre é, há meros 30 anos. Poucos imaginavam que voltaríamos a exclamar "fascistas!" em tão pouco tempo e com tanta intensidade. Todavia, o próprio...

Leon Trotsky, born Lev Davidovich Bronshtein, was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and theorist, Soviet politician, and the founder and first leader of the Red Army. After leading a failed struggle of the Left Opposition against the policies and rise of Joseph Stalin in the 1920s and the increasing role of bureaucracy in the Soviet Union, Trotsky was successively removed from power, expelled from the Communist Party, deported from the Soviet Union and assassinated on Stalin's orders. An early ...

Leon Trotsky was a Ukrainian-Russian Marxist revolutionary, political theorist and politician. Ideologically a communist, he developed a variant of Marxism which has become known as Trotskyism.His politics differed from some aspects from those of Stalin or Mao Zedong, most importantly in his rejection of the theory of Socialism in one country and his declaring of the need for an international "permanent revolution."This book contains: Trotsky on Lenin, My Life, The Revolution...

Key themes and aspects covered in "Our Revolution" include:Early Life and Political Awakening: Trotsky begins by describing his upbringing, early education, and his political awakening. He was a prominent figure in the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party and one of the key leaders of the Bolshevik faction.Role in the Russian Revolution: The book provides an insider's perspective on the events leading up to the 1917 October Revolution that brought the Bolsheviks to power. Trotsky discusse...

This early work by Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It contains his analysis of Socialism, the Soviet State and Economics of Russia during the early twentieth century. This is a fascinating work and is thoroughly recommended for anyone with an interest in Russian history and the politics of Trotsky. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce. We are republishing thes...

Literature and Revolution, written by the founder and commander of the Red Army, Leon Trotsky, in 1924 and first published in 1925, represents a compilation of essays that Trotsky drafted during the summers of 1922 and 1923.This book is a classic work of literary criticism from the Marxist standpoint. By discussing the various literary trends that were around in Russia between the revolutions of 1905 and 1917, Trotsky analyses the concrete forces in society, both progressive as well...

Trotsky's theory of the permanent revolution is one of the most important additions to the arsenal of Marxism. It was first developed by Trotsky in 1904, on the eve of the first Russian Revolution. At that time, all the tendencies of the Russian Social Democracy had the perspective of a bourgeois democratic revolution. Trotsky alone in 1905 put forward the idea that the Russian working class could come to power before the workers of Western Europe. The correctness of Trotsky's theory was b...

Trotsky's Stalin is unique in Marxist literature in that it attempts to explain some of the most decisive events of the 20th century, not just in terms of epoch-making economic and social transformations, but in the individual psychology of one of the protagonists in a great historical drama. It is a fascinating study of the way in which the peculiar character of an individual, his personal traits and psychology, interacts with great events.How did it come about that Stalin, who be...

La vita è bella. Possano le generazioni future liberarla da ogni male, oppressione e violenza, e goderla in tutto il suo splendore. Leon Trotsky

Leon Trotsky foi o um dos mentores da revolução russa. Amado por uma parte dos dirigentes do partido e odiado por outra, tanto que foi assassinado a mando de Stalin, é fato que ele foi um grande líder e pensador, tendo exercido um papel primordial na implantação do socialismo e do regime bolchevique na Rússia. O livro Minha Vida, escrito por Trotsky no exílio, descreve o processo que culminou com a implantação do socialismo na União Soviética e os fatos ne...