In the annals of political literature, few works have withstood the test of time so well as Leon Trotsky's The Revolution Betrayed. More than 70 years after its initial publication, its analysis of the structure and dynamics of Soviet society and of the Soviet Union remains unsurpassed. Learn More

"The Revolution Betrayed", Leon Trotsky's masterful analysis of the contradictory character of the USSR and the counter-revolutionary character of the Stalinist bureaucracy, has stood the test of time. In addition to this work, this set also contains a selection of other important writings by Trotsky, from the Russian Revolution to the founding of the Fourth International in 1938. Titles included are: "The Revolution Betrayed"; "In Defense of the October Revolution"; "The Transitional Program": "The Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International"; "Political Profiles"; and "Whither France". Learn More

This book documents Trotsky's intervention in the political struggle with the Burnham-Shachtman tendency inside the US Socialist Workers Party, which was of fundamental importance for the Fourth International. Learn More

In this work, Trotsky, writing from the unique vantage point of a leading participant in both the 1905 and the October 1917 revolutions, explains the historical events, socio-economic processes, and political struggles that led to the creation of the world’s first workers’ state. Learn More

This book contains four articles by Trotsky devoted to fundamental problems of the revolutionary movement. Learn More

These writings by Leon Trotsky on the rise of fascism in Germany were aimed at changing the course of the German Communist Party (KPD). With a correct policy, this party would have been able to stop the rise of National Socialism and prevent Hitler’s victory. They represent a vital contribution to Marxism. Learn More

This volume contains a collection of Trotsky's writings on the Chinese revolution of 1925-27 and its aftermath. Learn More

First published in 1924, these essays by Trotsky illuminate the problem of literary creation in the first workers state.

"Trotsky was perhaps the greatest representative in history of the Marxist school of literary criticism, which itself incorporated what was most farsighted in the aesthetic criticism produced by the bourgeois-democratic revolutions of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries."

David Walsh Learn More

Contains some of the most important articles
and speeches by Leon Trotsky on questions of everyday life, culture and education. The articles contained in the first section were first published in 1923 in the Soviet Union in the daily paper Pravda and also as a book.

This edition also contains a selection of Trotsky's writings on education and culture, science and technology and the materialist world outlook. Learn More