Trotsky

by Swain,Geoffrey

• ISBN13: 9780582771901
• ISBN10: 0582771900
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2006-07-20
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This biography of Trotsky provides readers with the first full account of Trotsky's role during the Russian Civil War as Commissar for War. Concentrates on Trotsky's years in power as much as his years in opposition.Will appeal to those interested in revolutionary politics, modern politics and political activists.Offers unique insight into the Russian Civil War and Trotsky's role in founding the Red Army, which has been frequently summarised but never analysed.2007 might see some marking of 90 years since 1917. There are likely to be various events and commemorations.Will show Trotsky as a pivotal figure of world history.

Author Biography

Geoffrey Swain teaches at the Schoolof History at the Universityof West England, Bristol.

As of April 2006 Swain will be Alec Nove Professor of Russian and East European Studies at the Universityof Glasgow

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(4)
1 The Precocious Apprentice	5	(28)
Growing Up	5	(4)
The South Russia Workers' Union	9	(5)
For Iskra, against Lenin	14	(6)
The 1905 Revolution	20	(6)
Results and Prospects	26	(7)
2 Revitalising the Party	33	(24)
The Disintegrating Party	34	(3)
Vienna Pravda	37	(4)
The Vienna Conference	41	(4)
The Balkan Wars	45	(2)
The Interdistrict Group and Bor'ba	47	(3)
The First World War	50	(7)
3 Insurrection	57	(32)
Joining the Bolsheviks	57	(4)
The July Days	61	(3)
Towards October	64	(6)
Uprising	70	(8)
Brest Litovsk	78	(5)
Rebuilding the Army	83	(6)
4 Saving the Revolution	89	(33)
Uprising on the Volga	90	(4)
Sviyazhsk	94	(6)
Tsaritsyn	100	(4)
The Military Opposition	104	(2)
The Kolchak Offensive	106	(3)
Disintegration of the Southern Front	109	(4)
Command Crisis and Victory	113	(9)
5 Building a Workers' State	122	(30)
Labour Armies	122	(5)
The Polish War	127	(1)
The Trade Union Debate	128	(5)
Gosplan	133	(4)
With Lenin	137	(5)
The German October	142	(2)
Showdown	144	(8)
6 Combating Thermidor	152	(30)
A Petit Bourgeois Deviation	152	(4)
The Lessons of October	156	(3)
The Dnieper Dam	159	(3)
Zinoviev, Kamenev and the Kulak Danger	162	(2)
The United Opposition	164	(5)
China	169	(4)
Expulsion	173	(9)
7 Exile and Internationalism	182	(28)
Stalin's Zigzag	184	(5)
A Coalition Central Committee	189	(4)
Reviving the International	193	(7)
Frida Kahlo	200	(2)
The Fourth International	202	(3)
Assassination	205	(5)
Conclusion	210	(9)
Bibliographical Note	219	(3)
Index	222