My Life An Attempt at an Autobiography

by Trotsky, Leon

• ISBN13: 9780486456096
• ISBN10: 0486456099
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-06-05
• Publisher: Dover Publications

Summary

This priceless historical document by the Bolshevik leader features firsthand accounts from the top levels of the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917. Trotsky chronicles the struggle to consolidate a government run by workers and peasants, along with the rift between Lenin and Stalin and its political consequences.

Table of Contents

Preface to this Edition	p. i
Foreword	p. xiii
Yanovka	p. 1
Our Neighbors and My First School	p. 27
Odessa: My Family and My School	p. 41
Books and Early Conflicts	p. 59
Country and Town	p. 78
The Break	p. 93
My First Revolutionary Organization	p. 103
My First Prisons	p. 114
My First Exile	p. 124
My First Escape	p. 134
An Emigre for the First Time	p. 142
The Party Congress and the Split	p. 150
The Return to Russia	p. 165
The Year 1905	p. 175
Trial, Exile, Escape	p. 187
My Second Foreign Exile: German Socialism	p. 202
Preparing for a New Revolution	p. 220
The Beginning of the War	p. 233
Paris, and Zimmerwald	p. 243
My Expulsion from France	p. 252
Through Spain	p. 258
New York	p. 270
In a Concentration Camp	p. 279
In Petrograd	p. 286
Concerning Slanderers	p. 298
From July to October	p. 311
The Deciding Night	p. 321
"Trotskyism" in 1917	p. 329
In Power	p. 334
In Moscow	p. 348
Negotiations at Brest-Litovsk	p. 362
Peace	p. 379
A Month at Sviyazhsk	p. 395
The Train	p. 411
The Defense of Petrograd	p. 423
The Military Opposition	p. 436
Disagreements over War Strategy	p. 451
The Transition to the New Economic Policy, and My Relations with Lenin	p. 461
Lenin's Illness	p. 470
The Conspiracy of the Epigones	p. 489
Lenin's Death and the Shift of Power	p. 502
The Last Period of Struggle within the Party	p. 518
The Exile	p. 539
The Deportation	p. 558
The Planet without a Visa	p. 567
Index	p. 585
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