12 - Modern History - Leon Trotsky: Personality Study: Journal articles

The article reviews the books "Trotsky: A Biography," by Robert Service and "In Defense of Leon Trotsky," by David North.

A reprint of the article "Trotsky in Mexico" by Kingsley Martin, which appeared in the April 10, 1937 issue of "New Statesman," is presented. The author recounts visiting with Russian revolutionary leader and former Soviet Union official Leon Trotsky in Mexico City, Mexico, and discussing with him the political show trials being carried out in Moscow, Russia, under the leadership of the head of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin.

he article presents an examination into the political intrigues and rivalry between the early Soviet leaders Joseph Stalin and Leon Trotsky during the 1920s. Excerpts from four primary sources are given, highlighting different elements of Stalin's victory over Trotsky in gaining power over the Communist government during the decade. Documents cited include the 14th Party Congress of December 1925, a Politburo declaration from October 15, 1923, and the 1924 work "Problems of Leninism."

This article focuses on the claims made by revolutionary journalist and orator Leon Trotsky about the theory of permanent revolution in 1905. Trotsky returned to Russia from European exile in February 1905. He not only propagated the program and slogans of revolutionary social democracy, he also became more intimately involved in the strike movement.

Leon Trotsky, a leader in the Russian Revolution and the civil war, protested against Joseph Stalin's increasingly dictatorial leadership of the Soviet Union and was expelled from the Soviet Union on January 19, 1929. Individuals involved include Leon Trotsky, Joseph Stalin, dictator of the Soviet Union, Lev Borisovich Kamenev, and Grigori Evseevich Zinoviev, Bolshevik leaders. Details and consequences of the conflict are provided.

Examines the authenticity of the purge trials against Leon Trotsky on the conspiracy to overthrow the Soviet Union, which were presented before a Preliminary Commission of Inquiry headed by John Dewey. Manifesto arguing the findings of the Commission; Media analysis of Trotsky's defense.

Focuses on Russian military commander Leon Trotsky. Family and educational background; His role in the Russian revolution and civil War; Information on his death.

Explores how much modern Soviet historians might learn from Western commentaries on Leon Trotsky and how much Western scholars can learn from the contemporary Soviet debate on Trotsky by providing a guide to traditional Western interpretations of Trotsky and examining new historiographical developments in the USSR. Pro-Soviet; Orthodox Trotskyism; Trotsky in the West; The skeptics; The realists; Trotsky in the USSR; Conclusion.

The article recalls the social and political revolution in Russia on February 27, 1917. The leaders of workers' unions demanded fire arms from the Petrograd Committee. Political prisoners including the group of the Military and Industrial Committee and Petrograd Committee members were released by the people from the jails. Revolutionary leaders captured the police stations and destroyed the hiding places of anti-revolutionists.

Discusses the leadership of Leon Trotsky in the Russian Revolution of 1905. Popularity of Trotsky as a revolutionary in 1905; Information on the exile of Trotsky; Outcome of the meeting of Trotsky with Leonid Krasin, a member of the Bolshevik central committee.

Ten years ago, Eric Hobsbawm presented his Deutscher Lecture on 'Can We Write the History of the Russian Revolution?' This essay argues that Hobsbawm articulated a perspective on the Russian Revolution that was shared by a much wider audience on the Left after the fall of the Soviet Union and that many of these arguments continue to resonate today. Placing the contours of the historiographical discussion of the Russian Revolution within a broader political context, I argue that Hobsbawm has underestimated the extent to which the standard academic accounts intentionally have marginalised Marxist interpretations.

If it is true, as I have argued in an earlier essay, that discontinuity is not an unintended side-effect of our ambition to attain goals that are in line with our identity, but the result of our giving in to a sublime 'why not?,' then how can we conceive of history as a process? In this essay I will explore the thesis that my notion that the discontinuities of history spring from a dehors texte squares well with an evolutionary view of history. I will do so by giving an account of how Lenin and Trotsky brought off one of the primordial discontinuities of the twentieth century, the Russian Revolution.