THE FIRST FIVE YEARS OF THE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL Volume 1

Trotsky, Leon

ISBN 10: 087348830X / ISBN 13: 9780873488303

Published by Pathfinder, New York, 1996

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374pp.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE FIRST FIVE YEARS OF THE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL Volume 1
• Publisher: Pathfinder, New York
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 087348830X
• ISBN 13: 9780873488303
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good+
• Seller catalogs:
  • Trotskyism

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Synopsis

During its first five years, the Communist International, guided by V.I. Lenin, Leon Trotsky, and other central Bolshevik leaders, sought to build a world movement of Communist parties capable of leading the toilers to overthrow capitalist exploitation and colonial oppression.

“The documents in this volume, dating from the first half of Trotsky’s most successful period, display the brilliance of intellect, the wide range of knowledge and the political vision which distinguished Lenin’s most dazzling collaborator.” —Christian Science Monitor

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)