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My life : an attempt at an autobiography / by Leon Trotsky. With an introduction by Joseph Hansen.

By:

Trotsky, Leon, 1879-1940 [author]

Contributor(s):

Hansen, Joseph [author of introduction]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: Russian Publisher: New York, NY : Pathfinder Press Incorporated, c1970Description: xxxvii, 602 pages ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0873481445
978-0873481441

Uniform titles:

Moi︠a︡ zhiznʹ. English

Subject(s):

LOC classification:

DK 254 .T6 A48 1970

Online resources:

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Contents:

Chapter I : Yanovka -- Chapter II : Our neighbors and my first school -- Chapter III : Odessa - my family and my school -- Chapter IV : Books and early conflicts -- Chapter V : Country and town -- Chapter VI : The break -- Chapter VII : My first revolutionary organization -- Chapter VIII : My first prisons -- Chapter IX : My first exile -- Chapter X : My first escape -- Chapter XI : An émigré for the first time -- Chapter XII : The party congress and the split -- Chapter XIII : The return to Russia -- Chapter XIV : The year 1905 -- Chapter XV : Trial, exile, escape -- Chapter XVI : My second foreign exile - german socialism -- Chapter XVII : Preparing for a new revolution -- Chapter XVIII : The beginning of the war -- Chapter XIX : Paris, and Zimmerwald -- Chapter XX : My expulsion from France -- Chapter XXI : Through Spain -- Chapter XXII : New York -- Chapter XXIII : In a concentration camp -- Chapter XXIV : In Petrograd -- Chapter XXV : Concerning slanderers -- Chapter XXVI : From July to October -- Chapter XXVII : The deciding night -- Chapter XXVIII : "Trotskyism" in 1917 -- Chapter XXIX : In power -- Chapter XXX : In Moscow -- Chapter XXXI : Negotiations at Brest-Litvosk -- Chapter XXXII : Peace -- Chapter XXXIII : A month at Sviyazhsk -- Chapter XXXIV : The train -- Chapter XXXV : The defense of Petrograd -- Chapter XXXVI : The military opposition -- Chapter XXXVII : Disagreements over strategy -- Chapter XXXVIII : The transition to the new economic policy, and my relations with Lenin -- Chapter XXXIX : Lenin's illness -- Chapter XL : The conspiracy of the epigones -- Chapter XLI : Lenin's death and the shift of power -- Chapter XLII : The last period of struggle within the party -- Chapter XLIII : The exile -- Chapter XLIV :The deportation -- Chapter XLV : The planet without a visa.

Summary: "Since its original publication in 1930 this has been recognized as one of the world's great autobiographies. Its literary qualities and the author's character would by themselves have made it a fascinating human document. But because Trotsky played such an important and heroic role in world-shaking events, it takes on historic dimensions. The reader is given an inside picture of the tempestuous 1905 revolution, the Bolshevik victory in 1917, and the civil war which followed. Written in the year of Trotsky's exile in Turkey, 'My Life', contains authoritative account of the rise of Stalinism and its overpowering of the Left Opposition which fought for the continuance of Lenin's revolutionary course. To this edition have been added a chronology of events in the remaining years of Trotsky's life and an introduction by Joseph Hansen, who was Trotsky's secretary from 1937, the year of Trotsky's arrival in Mexico, until August 21, 1940, when the great revolutionist died from wounds inflicted by an agent of Stalin's GPU" -- from book jacket

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Translation of Moi͡a zhiznʹ.

Includes a chronology (584 - 587) includes principal events and writings of Leon Trotsky from 1929 to his assassination in 1940. The Chronology is further divided into countries where Trotsky spent a significant amount of time particularly Turkey, France, and Norway.

Martin Chancey Memorial Fund/Library

Includes an index.

"Since its original publication in 1930 this has been recognized as one of the world's great autobiographies. Its literary qualities and the author's character would by themselves have made it a fascinating human document. But because Trotsky played such an important and heroic role in world-shaking events, it takes on historic dimensions. The reader is given an inside picture of the tempestuous 1905 revolution, the Bolshevik victory in 1917, and the civil war which followed. Written in the year of Trotsky's exile in Turkey, 'My Life', contains authoritative account of the rise of Stalinism and its overpowering of the Left Opposition which fought for the continuance of Lenin's revolutionary course. To this edition have been added a chronology of events in the remaining years of Trotsky's life and an introduction by Joseph Hansen, who was Trotsky's secretary from 1937, the year of Trotsky's arrival in Mexico, until August 21, 1940, when the great revolutionist died from wounds inflicted by an agent of Stalin's GPU" -- from book jacket

Translated from Russia into English.

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