Leon Trotsky Speaks

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The major political questions of the 20th century, discussed by an outstanding communist leader. Includes a defense of the right to revolution, made in 1906 in the prisoner's dock of the tsarist courts; speeches as a leader of the revolutionary government following the Bolshevik-led revolution; and I Stake My Life, Trotsky's 1937 defense of his 20-year Bolshevik course and challenge to the organizers of Joseph Stalin's frame-up trials. Contents 1. On trial for insurrection 2. Zimmerwald manifesto against the war 3. The February revolution and its results On the eve of a revolution Two faces-Internal forces of the Russian revolution The growing conflict War or peace 4. All power to the Soviets 5. President of the Petrograd Soviet Acceptance speech Answer to Skobelev To the Soviets of the Northern Region 6. Organizing the insurrection In answer to a rumor Three resolutions Brother Cossacks Message to the garrison Report to the Extraordinary Session The overthrow of the Provisional Government To the army committees and soldiers' soviets Walkout of the Mensheviks and Social Revolutionaries On the arrest of socialist ministers The organization of power