David North

In Defense of Leon Trotsky (second edition)

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Leon Trotsky, leader of the 1917 Russian Revolution and of the struggle against Stalin, was the last great representative of classical Marxism. No political event in the 20th Century can be understood without reference to his extensive writings.

David North defends Trotsky’s legacy against the campaign of historical falsification begun by Stalin and continuing to this day. Stalin assassinated Trotsky in 1940, but he was unable to silence the Fourth International, founded to embody the revolutionary heritage of 1917.

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Leon Trotsky, leader of the 1917 Russian Revolution and of the struggle against Stalin, was the last great representative of classical Marxism. No political event in the 20th Century can be understood without reference to his extensive writings.

David North defends Trotsky’s legacy against the campaign of historical falsification begun by Stalin and continuing to this day. Stalin assassinated Trotsky in 1940, but he was unable to silence the Fourth International, founded to embody the revolutionary heritage of 1917.

This work contains a devastating refutation of Trotsky biographies published by three British historians, Ian Thatcher, Geoffrey Swain and Robert Service. The significantly expanded second edition contains a new foreword, four new chapters and two appendices.

David North has played a leading role in the international socialist movement for forty-five years, and is presently the chairperson of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site and the Socialist Equality Party (US). His many published works include The Heritage We Defend; The Crisis of American Democracy; In Defense of Leon Trotsky; The Russian Revolution and the Unfinished Twentieth Century; The Frankfurt School, Postmodernism and the Politics of the Pseudo-Left and A Quarter Century of War.

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