Problems of Everyday Life: Creating the Foundations for a New Society in Revolutionary Russia - Softcover

Leon Trotsky

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0873488547 ISBN 13: 9780873488549

Publisher: Pathfinder Press, 1973

Synopsis

Articles from the early Soviet press on social and cultural issues in the struggle to forge new social relations. The advance of culture, Trotsky notes, requires an increasing level of scientific, technological, and industrial development to free humanity from a dependence upon nature that is degrading, a goal that can only be completed when social relationships are free from mystery and do not oppress people.

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About the Author

Leon Trotsky (1879–1940) was part of the central leadership forged by Bolshevik party leader V.I. Lenin that organized the revolutionary conquest of power by workers and peasants in Russia in October 1917. Trotsky commanded the Red Army, was a founding leader of the Communist International, and of communists in the Soviet Union and worldwide who fought to continue Lenin’s proletarian internationalist course. He continued that struggle from exile after being deported in 1929. Trotsky was murdered in Mexico in 1940 by Stalin’s secret police.

Since the early 1930s Pathfinder and its predecessors have translated, published, and kept in print Trotsky’s principal works. These include:
The Third International after Lenin (1996)
In Defense of Marxism (1995)
History of the Russian Revolution (1980)
The Revolution Betrayed (1972)
The First Five Years of the Communist International (two volumes, 1972)
Writings of Leon Trotsky, 1929–40 (14 volumes, 1972–79)

Edition details

• Publisher: Pathfinder Press
• Publication date: 1973
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0873488547
• ISBN 13: 9780873488549
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 433