Leon Trotsky
Born: 1879 Died: 1940
Last Updated: 9
January, 2006
The Trotsky
Internet Archive Subject Indexes/Collected Writings Series
Selected
Works: An index to a collection of writings here on the Trotsky
Internet Archive selected by the TIA Director and volunteers as representing
Trotsky’s most significant political works. [Note: this is
still a work in progress]
Leon
Trotsky on China: A complete collection of Trotsky’s writings on
China covering the years 1925 through 1940
Leon
Trotsky on Britain: A complete collection of Trotsky’s writings on
Britain covering the years 1920 through 1940 with an emphasis on the mid-20s
The
Rise of German Fascism: A complete collection of Trotsky’s writings
on Germany covering the years 1930 through 1940
The
Spanish Revolution: A complete (... but under construction)
collection of Trotsky’s writings on Civil War in Spain covering the years 1931
through 1939
Our
Revolution: Essays in Working Class and International Revolution, 1904-1917:
A collection of Trotksy’s writings Edited by M. Olgin for the Soviet Government.
Literature and Art: A listing of Trotsky’s views on Marxism and the
Arts.
Letters to Belgium: A collection of Trotsky’s letters to the
Belgian Trotskyists.
Trotsky on Women: A collection of Trotsky’s articles on women and
related subjects.
On Black Nationalism: A collection of discussions with Trotsky.
Political Profiles: Compilation of articles on leading figures in
the European and Russian workers’ movement (total: 1.4mB).
Or, the Complete List
Below:
1901 — 1910
1901:
On
Optimism and Pessimism; on the 20th Century and on Many Other Issues
1904:
Report of
the Siberian Delegation
1904:
Our
Political Tasks (book – 6 files, 306K)
1904:
The
Proletariat and the Revolution
1905:
The events in Petersburg
1905: Open
Letter to Professor P.N. Miliukov
1906:
Results and Prospects (book)
Significant work!
1907:
The Year
1905 (book) [Click
Here for PDF version 1 megabyte in size]
Significant work!
1907:
The
Soviet and the Revolution
1907:
Preface to My Round Trip
1908: Leo
Tolstoy, Poet & Rebel (literary criticism/article)
1909:
Why Marxists
Oppose Individual Terrorism (article)
1909:
The
Young Turks
1910:
The
Intelligentsia and Socialism
1911 — 1917
1911:
The
Bankruptcy of Individual Terrorism
1914:
War and the
International (book) [Click
Here for PDF version – 500k]
Significant work!
1915:
Why the
German Social-Democracy Failed (A 1915 Review of Leon Trotsky’s
essay)
1916:
Clemency!
(article)
1916:
On the
Events in Dublin (article)
1917:
The
Lessons of the Great Year
1917: On
the Eve of a Revolution
1917:
Two Faces
1917:
The Growing Conflict
1917:
War or Peace?
1917:
Captivity (letter)
1917:
Peace and
Reaction (article)
1917:
Forward
1917:
The Farce
of Dual Power (article)
1917:
Democracy, Pacifism and Imperialism (article)
1917:
The July
Uprising (article)
1917:
Pacifism
as the Servant of Imperialism (essay)
1917:
After the
July Days: WHAT NEXT? (pamphlet)
1917:
The
Struggle for State Power (pamphlet)
1917:
Blood and
Iron (speech)
1917:
The Peace
Program and the Revolution
1918 — 1919
1918:
History of
the Russian Revolution to Brest-Litovsk (book)
1918:
The International Will the Allies Throw Away the Last Chance?
1918:
Peace
Negotiations and the Revolution
1918:
Work, Discipline, and Order to Save the Socialist Soviet Republic
1918:
Speech on Brest-Litovsk
1918:
Lenin
Wounded
1918:
Soviet
Government documents (authored by Trotsky as Soviet Commissar of
Foreign Affairs from November of 1917 through March of 1918)
1918:
The
Principles of Democracy and Proletarian Dictatorship
1918:
May Day
and the International
1918:
Trotsky’s Military Writings, Volume 1 (collection of articles,
essays & lectures)
Significant work!
1919:
To the
Spartacus League of Germany and the Communist Party of German Austria
1919:
Order
Out of Chaos
1919:
Invitation to the First World Congress [of the Comintern]
1919:
Manifesto Of the Communist International to the Workers Of the World
1919:
Report
on the Communist Party Of the Soviet Union and the Red Army
1919:
Order Of
the Day Number 83 to the Red Army and Navy
1919:
To
Comrades Of the Spartacus League
1919:
A
Creeping Revolution
1919:
Great
Days
1919:
En
Route: Thoughts on the Progress Of the Proletarian Revolution
1919:
A
Letter to Our French Comrades
1919:
French
Socialism on the Eve Of Revolution
1919:
Jean
Longuet
1919:
Rallying the Army During the Civil War (speech)
1919:
Report of
Comrade Trotzky: Russia (to Class Struggle, article)
1919:
Great Times(to
Class Struggle, article)
1919:
Problems
the Army During the Civil War (speech)
1919:
Trotsky’ Military Writings, Volume 2 (collection of articles,
essays & lectures)
Significant work!
1920
1920:
Nationalism
in Lenin
1920:
Letter to Yugoslav Communists
1920:
On the
Coming Congress Of the Comintern
1920:
Speech
on Comrade Zinoviev’s Report on the Role Of the Party
1920: Manifesto Of the Second World Congress
Part I
| Part
II
1920:
A
Letter to a French Syndicalist About the Communist Party
1920:
On the
Policy Of the KADP (Communist Workers Party of Germany)
1920:
Trotsky’ Military Writings, Volume 3 (collection of articles,
essays & lectures)
Significant work!
1920:
Terrorism and Communism: An Answer to Karl Kautsky
Significant work!
1921
1921:
Vergeat, Lepetit and Lefebvre
1921:
Lessons of
the Paris Commune
1921:
The
March Movement in Germany
1921:
The
March Revolutionary Movement in Germany (Personal Notes)
1921:
May Day
Manifesto of the ECCI
1921:
The
Unemployed and the Trade Unions
1921:
Speech
Delivered At the Second World Conference Of Communist Women
1921:
Letter
to Comrade Monatte
1921:
Letter
to Comrades Cachin and Frossard
1921:
On
L’Humanité, the Central Organ Of the French Party
1921:
The Red
Army to the General Staff Of the Revolution
1921: Report on the World Economic Crisis and the New Tasks Of the
Communist International
Part I
| Part
II
1921:
Summary
Speech [At the 3rd Congress of the Communist International]
1921:
Theses
of the Third World Congress on the International Situation and the Tasks of the
Comintern
1921:
Speech
on the Italian Question At the Third Congress Of the Communist International
1921:
Speech
on Comrade Radek’s Report on “Tactics Of the Comintern” At the Third Congress
1921:
Speech
on Comrade Lenin’s Report: “Tactics Of the Russian Communist Party”
1921:
The Main
Lesson Of the Third Congress
1921:
Report
on “The Balance Sheet” Of the Third Congress Of the Communist International
1921:
Summary
Speech
1921:
A School
of Revolutionary Strategy
1921:
From the
ECCI to the Central Committee of the French Communist Party
1921:
From the
ECCI to the Marseilles Convention of the French Communist Party
1921:
Speech on
Comrade Zinoviev’s Report “The Tactics of the Comintern” at the Eleventh Party
Conference
1921:
Trotsky’ Military Writings, Volume 4 (collection of articles,
essays & lectures)
Significant work!
1921:
Summary
Speech at the Eleventh Party Conference
1921:
Flood-tide
1922
1922:
Paul Levi
and Some ‘Lefts’
1922:
On the
United Front
1922:
The Question of the United Front
1922:
Resolution
of the ECCI on the French Communist Party
1922:
The
Communists and the Peasantry in France
1922:
A Note
on Plekhanov (24k)
1922:
The
Lessons of May Day
1922:
From the
ECCI to the Central Committee of the French Communist Party
1922:
French
Communism and the Position of Comrade Rappoport
1922:
To Comrade
Ker
1922:
Resolution
of the ECCI on the French Communist Party
1922:
To Comrade
Treint
1922:
From the
ECCI to the Seine Federation of the French Communist Party (Summer
1922
1922:
From the
ECCI to the Paris Convention of the French Communist Party (September
13, 1922)
1922:
From the
ECCI to the Paris Convention of the French Communist Party (October
6, 1922)
1922:
The Fifth
Anniversary of the October Revolution and the Fourth World Congress of the
Communist International
1922:
Who
Are the Traitors? A PDF document from the Early American Marxism
archive
1922:
Speech in
Honour of the Communist International
1922:
The New
Economic Policy of Soviet Russia and the Perspectives of the World Revolution
1922:
The
Economic Situation of Soviet Russia From the Standpoint of the Socialist
Revolution
1922:
Resolution
on the French Question
1922:
A Militant
Labour Program for the French Communist Party(December 5, 1922
1922:
Resolution of the French Commission
1922:
Between Red and White(essay)
Significant work!
1922:
Report
on the Communist International
1922:
Prospects
of Revolution
1922:
The
Position of the Republic and the Tasks of Young Workers (report to
Communist Youth – 56k)
1922:
Political
Perspectives (Late 1922?) 1922:
Report on
the Fourth World Congress
1922:
Trotsky’ Military Writings, Volume 5 (collection of articles,
essays & lectures)
Significant work!
1922:
The Contradictions of the Soviet Policy
1923
1923:
The
New Course (essay)
Significant work!
1923:
A
Necessary Discussion with Our Syndicalist Comrades (March 23,
1923)
1923:
Preface to
The Communist Movement in France (March 25, 1923)
1923:
The Anarcho-Syndicalist Prejudices Again! (May 8, 1923)
1923:
Is the
Slogan of ’The United States of Europe’ a Timely One? (June 30,
1923)
1923:
Can a
Counter-Revolution or a Revolution be Made on Schedule? (September
23, 1923)
1923:
To
Comrade McKay (March 13, 1923)
1923:
The Curve
of Capitalist Development
1923:
Lenin Ill
1923:
On the
Slogan of the “United States of Europe” (contribution to a
discussion)
1923:
Communist
Policy Toward Art (essay)
1923:
The Social
Function of Literature & Art (essay)
1923:
What Is
Proletarian Culture, and Is It Possible? (essay)
1923:
Man Does
Not Live by Politics Alone
1923:
Bureaucratism and Factional Groups
1923:
Theses on
Industry
1923:
The Tasks of Communist Education
1924
1924:
Lenin Dead
(essay)
1924:
The Timetable for Revolution (essay 24k )
1924:
Lenin – The
Philistine and the Revolutionary
1924:
May Day in
the East & the West
1924:
Perspectives and Tasks in the East Speech on the Third Anniversary
of the Communist University for Toilers of the East
1924:
Class and Art – Culture Under the Dictatorship
1924:
Through What
Stage Are We Passing?
1924:
Perspectives
of World Development [94k]
1924:
Literature and Revolution
1924:
The
Lessons of October (essay - 182k-multi-part) [Click
Here for PDF version]
Significant work! [Alternate
Translation]
1924:
First
Five Years of the Communist International Volume I
Significant work!
1924:
First
Five Years of the Communist International Volume II
Significant work!
1925 — 1926
1925:
The
Letter of Comrade Trotsky to the Plenum of the Central Committee of the Russian
Communist Party
1925:
Jacob
Sverdlov [memorial essay – 29.3k]
1925:
Dialectical Materialism and Science
1925:
Towards
Capitalism or Towards Socialism? – The Language of Figures
1925:
Twenty Years After 1905
1925:
Lenin
[book]
1925:
Where
Is Britain Going? [book]
Significant work!
1926:
To The
Memory of Sergei Essenin
1926:
Theses on Revolution and Counter-Revolution [11.8k]
1926:
On the
Tempo and Timescale of the Revolution
1926:
Europe and
America [47.7k]
1926:
Brailsford and Marxism
1926:
Radio,
Science, Technique and Society [40.7k]
1926:
Once
More on Pacifism and Revolution
1926:
Problems of the British Revolution [book]
1927
1927:
The Struggle
for Peace and the Anglo-Russian Committee [36k]
1927:
The Chinese Revolution and the Theses of Comrade Stalin
1927: Epilogue:
The Speech of
Comrade Chen Duxiu on the Tasks of the Chinese Communist Party
1927:
First Speech on the Chinese Question
1927:
Second Speech on the Chinese Question
1927:
The Sure Road
1927:
Hankow and Moscow
1927:
Is It Not Time to Understand?
1927:
What We Gave and What We Got
1927:
The
“Clémenceau Thesis” and the Party Regime [27k]
1927:
The
Opposition and the Wrangel Officer (34k)
1927:
The Appeal
to Party Members (14k)
1927:
Platform of the Opposition [Click
Here for PDF version]
Significant work!
1927:
The
Russian Opposition: Questions and Answers [Interview – 20k]
1928 — 1930
1928:
The Third
International After Lenin (A Draft Criticism of the Communist International)
[thesis] [Click
Here for PDF version]
Significant work!
1928:
On the
Canton Insurrections: Three Letters to Preobrazhensky [letter –
38.3k]
1928:
On Max
Eastman
1929:
The
Groupings in the Communist Opposition
1929:
Two Letters on the Origin of the Fourth International
1929:
Once
Again on Brandler-Thalheimer
1929:
An Open
Letter to the Editorial Board of La Verité
1929:
A Letter to
the Editorial Board of La Lutte De Classes
1929:
Communism and Syndicalism
1929:
The
Errors in Principle of Syndicalism
1929:
The
First Contact with Belgium
1929:
The Defense of the Soviet Union and the Opposition [essay – 113.4k]
1929:
Disarmament
and the United States of Europe [essay – 34.5k]
1930:
Letter to
the Italian Left Communists
1930:
The History
of the Russian Revolution (book)
Significant work!
1930:
Open
Letter to the All Members of the Leninbund
1930:
As Pure
and Transparent as Crystal (essay)
1930:
An Open Letter to the Italian Left Communists
1930:
To the Editorial Board of Prometeo
1930:
The
Turn in the Communist International and the Situation in Germany
Significant work!
1930:
Monatte Crosses the Rubicon
1930:
World Unemployment and The First Five Year Plan
1930: My
Life (autobiography) [Click
Here for PDF version – 3.5 megbytes big!]
Significant work!
1931
1931:
The
Revolution In Spain [pamphlet]
1931:
Communism and Syndicalism [pamphlet]
1931:
The
Mistakes of Rightist Elements of the Communist League on the Trade Union
Question
1931: The
Case Of Comrade Ryazanov
1931:
Thälmann and the “People’s Revolution”
1931:
The
Spanish Revolution And The Dangers Threatening It
1931:
Workers’ Control of Production
1931:
Against National Communism! (Lessons of the “Red Referendum”)
1931:
A Letter To
Albert Treint [Letter on the German Revolution]
1931:
Factory Councils and Workers’ Control of Production
1931:
[1st] Letter to the Communist League
1931:
Germany, the Key to the International Situation
Significant work!
1931:
For a
Workers’ United Front Against Fascism
1931:
The
Permanent Revolution (book) Significant
work!
1931:
For the
Spanish Revolution
1931:
For
Communist Unity In Spain
1931:
The
Problems Of The Spanish Revolution
1931:
Thermidor and Bonapartism
1931:
The
Character of the Revolution
1931:
Problems of the Spanish Revolution
1931:
Tactics
Flowing from the Election Results
1931:
The
Role of Strikes in a Revolution
1931:
On The
Slogan of Soviets: From a Letter to Andres Nin
1932
1932:
What Next? Vital Questions for the German Proletariat
Significant work!
1932:
[2nd] Letter to the Communist League
1932:
Interview with Montag Morgen
1932:
Closer to
the Proletarians of the Colored Races
1932:
Hands
Off Rosa Luxemburg!
1932:
Letter to
Alois Neurath
1932:
Peasant War
In China and the Proletariat
1932:
The
Only Road
Significant work!
1932:
Prinkipo Letter, 1932 (letter)
1932:
The Soviet
Economy in Danger
1932:
German
Bonapartism
1932:
A
Strategy Of Action And Not Of Speculation, Letter To Pekin Friends. What are, at
present, the chief elements of the political situation in China?
1932:
In Defense of October (Speech in Copenhagen, Denmark – 65.9K)
Significant work!
1932:
The Passage
of Trotsky to Anvers Open Letter to Vandervelde
1926:
On the
Suppressed Testament of Lenin ( essay - 85K)
1932:
Problems of
the Chinese Revolution (collection of articles)
Significant work!
1932:
On the
Disarmament Question
1932:
On The
American Economic Crisis
1932:
Family
Relations Under the Soviets
1932:
On the Labor Party Question in the United States
1932:
What Next? – Vital Questions for the German Proletariat (pamphlet –
330k in 3 parts)
Significant work!
1933 — 1934
1933:
Two
Articles On Those Who Have Forgotten the ABCs
1933:
Before
the Decision
1933:
The
United Front for Defense: A Letter to a Social Democratic Worker
1933:
The
Tragedy of the German Proletariat
1933:
Germany and the USSR
1933:
Hitler
and the Red Army
1933:
The
German Catastrophe
1933:
Interview with Georges Simenon
1933:
What
Is National Socialism?
1933:
How
Long Can Hitler Stay?
1933:
It Is
Necessary to Build Communist Parties and an International Anew
Significant work!
1933:
It Is
Impossible to Remain in the Same International with the Stalins, Manuilskys,
Lozovskys & Co.
1933:
The
Trade Unions in Britain
1933:
The Spanish
“Kornilovs” and“Stalinists”
1933:
The Class
Nature of the Soviet State (essay)
1933:
On the War
in China
1933:
German
Perspectives
1934:
On The
Jewish Question
1934:
Two
Articles On Centrism
1934:
Hitler’s
Program
1934:
A Program of Action for France (38K) Significant
work!
1934:
War and the
Fourth International (87K) Significant
work!
1934:
A
Greeting to New International
1933:
Bonapartism and Fascism
1934:
If America Should Go Communist
1934:
Nationalism and Economic Life
1934:
On the Kirov
Assassination (76k)
1934:
Fontamara (book review)
1935
1935:
The
Workers’ State, Thermidor and Bonapartism (essay)
1935:
Centrist
Alchemy Or Marxism? [85k]
1935:
On the South African Thesis
1935:
An Open
Letter to the French Workers [28k]
1935:
Luxemberg and the Fourth International
1935:
Who Defends
Russia? Who Defends Hitler?
1935:
Chen
Tu-hsiu and the General Council
1935:
On the
Seventh World Congress of the Comintern [25k]
1935:
Stalin
Frame-Up Mill at Work
1935:
ILP and the
Fourth International
1935:
Russia and
the World Proletariat (essay – 13K)
1935:
Preface
to the Norwegian Edition of My Life
1935:
Engels’
Letters to Kautsky
1935:
Romain
Rolland Executes an Assignment [15k]
1935:
Edouard
Herriot: Politician of the Golden Mean [40k]
1935:
Lessons of
October [14k]
1935:
How Did
Stalin Defeat the Opposition? (essay)
1935:
Open Letter For The Fourth International
1936
1936:
“Trotsky
Cables Denial to AP on Daily Worker Lies”
1936:
Notes of a
Journalist
1936:
20,000
Oppositionists Expelled from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in Recent
“Cleansing”
1936:
Tell
Workers the Truth About Stalin’s Hounding of Revolutionists in the Soviet Union
1936:
Alfred
Rosmer’s Book [6k]
1936:
Stalin
Plans Wholesale Persecution
1936:
The
Stalin-Howard Interview
1936:
“A Jingle to
Please the ‘Master’” [9k]
1936:
On Dictators and The Heights Of Oslo
1936:
The Task
in Spain
1936:
The New
Constitution Of The USSR
1936:
Trotsky in Norway (essay)
1936:
The
Revolution Betrayed (book)
Significant work!
1936:
How Lenin
Studied Marx [17k]
1936:
Once Again – The ILP
1936:
Whither France?
Significant work!
1937
1937:
Thermidor
and Anti-Semitism
1937:
Stalinism and Bolshevism (essay)
1937:
Ninety
Years Of The Communist Manifesto (28k)
1937:
Once Again: The USSR and its Defense (32K)
1937:
Not a
Workers’ and Not a Bourgeois State?
1937:
The Case
of Leon Trotsky
Significant work!
1937:
The Stalin
School of Falsification (book)[Click
Here for PDF version]
Significant work!
1937:
On
Democratic Centralism and the Regime (8K)
1937:
The
Lessons of Spain – The Last Warning (51K)
1938
1938:
The Fifth
Wheel
1938:
Hue And
Cry Over Kronstadt
1938:
The Mexican
Oil Expropriations
1938:
Learn To
Think Learn To Think A Friendly Suggestion to Certain
Ultra-Leftists
1938:
Art and
Politics In Our Epoch
1938:
Mexico
And British Imperialism
1938:
More on
the Suppression of Kronstadt
1938:
Freedom of
the Press and the Working Class (pamphlet – 10K)
1938:
Anti-Imperialist Struggle Is Key To Liberation1938:
Social-Patriotic Sophistry – The Question of the Defense of Czechoslovakia’s
“National Independence”
1938:
The
Founding of the Fourth International
1938:
On the
Character of the Coming War
1938:
Czechoslovakia: Toward a Decision
1939:
Karl
Kautsky [Obiturary]
1938:
The
Transitional Program for Socialist Revolution (Pamphlet – 116K in 3
parts) [Click
Here for PDF version]
Significant work!
1938:
A
Discussion with Trotsky on the Transitional Program (Interview –
33K)
1938:
The USSR and
Problems of the Transitional Epoch (extract from the
Transitional
Program)
1938:
Their
Morals and Ours (essay)
Significant work!
1938:
The Chinese
Revolution
1938:
Nationalized Industry and Workers’ Management
1938:
Twenty
Years of Stalinist Degeneration
1939
1939:
Clarity or
Confusion? [23k]
1939:
Lenin on
Imperialism (18K)
1939:
Krupskaya’s Death [Obiturary]1939:
Once Again
on the Crisis of Marxism
1939:
Where is the PSOP Going? [A correspondence between Marceau Pivert,
Daniel Guerin and Leon Trotsky]
1939:
Marxism in
Our Time (93K)
1939:
The
Bonapartist Philosophy of the State
1939:
Moralists
and Sycophants Against Marxism1939:
Open Letter
to the Workers of India
1939:
“Progressive Paralysis” – The Second International on the Eve of the New War
1939:
“Trotskyism” and the PSOP
1939:
Independence of the Ukraine and Secarian Muddleheads [33k]
1939:
The USSR
and the War (53K)
1939:
The ABC of Materialist Dialectics (18K) [Click
Here for PDF version – 76K]
1939:
For
Grynszpan: Against Fascist Pogrom Gangs and Stalinist Scoundrels
1939:
Behind the
Kremlin Walls
1939:
Lenin
[Submission to The Encyclopædia Britannica on the Encyclopædia’s entry
for “Lenin”]
1940
1940:
Balance
Sheet of the Finnish Events [26k]
1940:
Letter to
the Workers of the USSR
1940:
We Do Not
Change Our Course (Article – 12k)
1940:
The May 24th
Attempt to Assassinate Trotsky
1940:
The Reptile
Breed of The Nation
1940:
China and
the Russian Revolution [9k]
1940:
Letter to
the Herald Tribune
1940:
Some
Questions on American Problems (draft article – 31k)
1940:
The Comintern and GPU [One of Trotsky’s last articles – 119k]
1940:
The
Kremlin’s Role in the War
1940:
The
Character of the Russian Revolution as Foreseen by Plekhanov, Lenin and Trotsky
(54k, excerpt fromStalin)
1940:
Trade Unions in the Epoch of Imperialist Decay [23k]
1940:
The Second World War
1940:
The Class,
the Party and the Leadership (unfinished draft article)
1940:
Trotsky’s Last Article: Bonapartism, Fascism and War (27k)
The
Last Letters of Leon Trotsky:
1940:
On
Japan’s Plans for Expansion
1940: On
A “Socialist” Ally of Chamberlain
1940:
Manifesto of the Fourth International
1940: On
Conscription
1940:
Misfortune of an Intellectual
1940:
Nipping A New GPU Lie
1940: To
Generous Friends
1940: On
A Petty Bourgeois Philistine
1940: How
to Defend Ourselves
1940: How
to Really Defend Democracy
1940: A
Letter to C. Charles
1940: On
Dewey’s Philosophy
1940:
Another Thought on Conscription
1940:
Welcome to “Our Small Garrison”
1940:
Trotsky’ Last Three Letters
Some works published
later
but written in or around 1940
1942:
In Defense
of Marxism (collection of articles, letters)
1944:
Fascism (pamphlet first published in 1944)