Leon Trotsky and World War One August 1914 - February 1917 [Hardcover]

World War I was one of the most important events of the twentieth century. It was also a crucial period in Leon Trotsky's political biography. This work is the first comprehensive examination of Trotsky's writings of 1914-1917 and the context in which they were produced. Its findings challenge Trotsky's autobiography and the standard account by Isaac Deutscher. Trotsky's war-time journalism is shown to be of continuing relevance to contemporary issues ranging from European unity to ethnic cleansing in the Balkans.Preface Switzerland Kievskaya Mysl The Censor in Paris Lenin and the Bolsheviks Martov and the Mensheviks Russian Social-Patriotism in Paris Russian Politics European Social-Democracy From the Old World to the New: Spain and America Conclusion Notes Bibliography IndexIAN THATCHER is Lecturer in the History of Soviet Russia at the Department of History, University of Leicester. The author of many articles and several edited collections he is currently researching a one-volume political biography of Trotsky.