In essays later collected with his account of 1905, Trotsky interpreted the workers’ council as an institution that could unite strike coordination and political authority. This was his...
As European socialist parties backed their governments, Trotsky opposed the war and analyzed it as a struggle among imperial powers. His internationalist position connected European war to colonial...
In polemics during the war, Trotsky opposed treating Russia or the Allied states as progressive defenders of smaller nations. He linked the European front to imperial competition, though colonized...
