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Expulsado de Francia por germanófilo y de Alemania por francófono, Lev Trotski llegó a España en 1916, donde permaneció tan sólo unos meses. Tiempo suficiente para que sufriese todo tipo de incidentes, que motivaron una interpelación parlamentaria al Gobierno del conde de Romanones. Trotski fue encarcelado en Madrid y trasladado posteriormente a Cádiz en espera de un barco con rumbo a Nueva York. El libro se publicó en español en 1929, traducido por Andrés Nin y con prólogo del propio Trotski enviado desde Constantinopla. Mis peripecias en España retrata a una sociedad atrasada, pícara y corrupta que el líder de la revolución soviética compara constantemente con Alemania y Francia. Este volumen recupera las ilustraciones realizadas por K. Rotova para la edición príncipe rusa.

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On 20th August 1940 Trotsky's life was brutally ended when a Stalinist agent brought an ice pick crashing down on his head. Among the works left unfinished was the second part of his biography of Stalin. 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 began his political life as a revolutionary and a Bolshevik, ended as a tyrant and a monster? Was this something pre-ordained by genetic factors or childhood upbringing? Drawing on a mass of carefully assembled material from his personal archives and many other sources, Trotsky provides the answer to these questions. In the present edition we have brought together all the material that was available from the Trotsky archives in English and supplemented it with additional material translated from Russian. It is the most complete version of the book that has ever been published.

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Para hacer al individuo sagrado debemos destruir el orden social que lo crucifica. Y este problema sólo puede ser resuelto a sangre y hierro. Trotsky Escrito en el momento candente de la guerra civil de la Rusia revolucionaria, "Terrorismo y comunismo" de Trotsky es una de las defensas más potentes de la dictadura del proletariado. En su provocativo comentario a esta nueva edición, el filósofo Slavoj ?i?ek defiende la relevancia vital que actualmente tiene el ataque de Trotsky a las ilusiones de la democracia liberal.

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Combining Young Lenin and On Lenin in one volume, this is a fascinating political biography by Lenin's fellow revolutionary, Leon Trotsky. Trotsky on Lenin brings together two long-out-of-print works in a single volume for the first time, providing an intimate and illuminating portrait of the Bolshevik leader by another of the twentieth century's greatest revolutionaries.

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'The greatest history of an event I know' - C.L.R. JamesRegarded by many as among the most powerful works of history ever written, The History of the Russian Revolution offers an unparalleled account of one of the most pivotal and hotly debated events in world history. This book presents, from the perspective of one of its central actors, the profound liberating character of the early Russian Revolution.Originally published in three parts, Trotsky's masterpiece is collected here in a single volume. It is still the most vital and inspiring record of the Russian Revolution ever published.

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‘…the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.’ The Modern South African Edition of the Communist Manifesto Includes: Leon Trotsky’s Afrikaans Introduction to the 1937 edition with an English translation. Neville Alexander’s 2002 Introduction in isiZulu and English to the isiZulu translation of The Communist Manifesto. A new isiZulu translation of The Communist Manifesto. Jeremy Cronin’s Introduction to this edition. As the first in the new series RADICAL PASTS, RADICAL FUTURES, this edition of The Communist Manifesto is a vantage point from where to view the lives, work and creativity of ordinary South Africans in the years 1937, 2002 & 2022, and a prompt to visit and re-visit Marx & Engels’ urgent text.

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Written in the white heat of revolutionary Russia's Civil War, Trotsky's Terrorism and Communism is one of the most potent defenses of revolutionary dictatorship. In his provocative commentary to this new edition the philosopher Slavoj Zizek argues that Trotsky's attack on the illusions of liberal democracy has a vital relevance today.

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