In the annals of political literature, few works have withstood the test of time so well as Leon Trotsky's The Revolution Betrayed. More than 70 years after its initial publication, its analysis of the structure and dynamics of Soviet society and of the Soviet Union remains unsurpassed. Learn More

This book documents Trotsky's intervention in the political struggle with the Burnham-Shachtman tendency inside the US Socialist Workers Party, which was of fundamental importance for the Fourth International. Learn More

In this work, Trotsky, writing from the unique vantage point of a leading participant in both the 1905 and the October 1917 revolutions, explains the historical events, socio-economic processes, and political struggles that led to the creation of the world’s first workers’ state. Learn More

This book contains four articles by Trotsky devoted to fundamental problems of the revolutionary movement. Learn More

Trotsky wrote this book in the wake of the failure of the German Communist Party to capitalize on the revolutionary opportunity present in 1923. This essay marked an important development in the struggle by Trotsky against the degeneration of the Bolshevik Party under the leadership of Stalin, Kamenev and Zinoviev. In it the Bolshevik leader examines the critical role of working class leadership in the October Revolution in Russia. Trotsky insisted that the Communist International must assimilate the lessons of the experiences of 1917 or face disaster. This book provoked a furious response by the growing bureaucracy. Learn More

At a time when old Stalinist lies about Trotsky are again being revived, My Life is essential reading. Learn More

These five volumes contain Trotsky's speeches, articles and documents on the Red Army during 1918-1923, the years of civil war and bitter fighting against intervention by the imperialist armies. Essential material on the history of the Russian Revolution, this is also one of the major military works of the twentieth century. First published in Russian in 1923 and then suppressed by Stalin, these writings represent an invaluable documentary record. Learn More

This document, written by Trotsky in late 1923 on the question of the danger of the degeneration of the party regime, was the opening shot in the struggle against the growing bureaucracy led by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union. Learn More

The 1927 program of the Joint (Bolshevik-Leninist) Opposition which drew together the supporters of Trotsky and Zinoviev against Stalin and Bukharin. Submitted to the Central Committee in September 1927, the program was signed by thirteen members of the Central Committee, including Trotsky, Zinoviev, Kamenev, Smilga, Evdokimov, Rakovsky, Piatakov and Bakaev. Learn More