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These two lectures challenge the claims of right-wing historians that the demise of the Soviet Union proved (1) that the October Revolution was nothing more than a putsch that lacked significant popular support; (2) that any other effort to create a socialist society is doomed to failure; and (3) that the capitalist market is the only viable basis for human existence. Learn More

Raskolnikov's account of the role played by the Kronstadt sailors is an essential document of the October Revolution. Trotsky, in his own history of the revolution, made repeated references to it. A leader of the sailors, the author was 25 in 1917 and a heroic figure in his own right. This lively account was first published in 1925. Learn More

The first of two volumes containing the complete minutes of the Second Congress of the Communist International (Comintern) held in 1920. Learn More

The second of two volumes containing the complete minutes of the Second Congress of the Communist International (Comintern) held in 1920. Learn More

American journalist John Reed's classic eyewitness acount the of October 1917 revolution in Russia. Learn More

Three articles written between 1925 and 1932 which consider the fundamental problems of the Soviet economy, from the New Economic Policy to forced collectivization. Controversial in their own day, the articles examine the deep-rooted contradictions in Soviet economic development and warn of the potentially disastrous character of Stalinist policies. Learn More

This book was originally published under the title Between Red and White. It contains an account by Trotsky of the Civil War in the Caucasus, with a focus on events in Georgia. Learn More

Writing in 1920 aboard his military train in the midst of the Civil War, Trotsky defended the Bolsheviks' revolutionary measures against Karl Kautsky, the German renegade from Marxism and opponent of Soviet power. Learn More