Trotsky analyzes France’s February 1934 far-right crisis

Trotsky arrived in Turkey after Soviet authorities removed him from Alma-Ata. This began a long exile shaped by visa restrictions, surveillance, and international political conflict.

His autobiography recounts revolutionary activity and exile but is also a political intervention written amid the struggle over Soviet history. It is valuable testimony, not a neutral record; it...

The book assembled arguments about revolution in countries with uneven development, including the possibility that democratic and socialist tasks could become linked. Its internationalist framework...

Invited to speak to Danish social democrats, Trotsky presented a retrospective account of the Russian Revolution to a European audience. The lecture was an act of political memory by an exiled...

He concluded that the German Communist Party’s failure to stop Hitler could not be corrected through its existing leadership and called for building new parties and an international. This marked a...

Trotsky challenged a draft that equated a Black republic with white supremacy, calling Black majority rule a step toward liberation. The intervention is notable in his anticolonial thought, but it...

He argued that Black majority rule was a necessary democratic step and rejected a draft line equating it with white supremacy. The intervention contested settler colonial assumptions, but South...

The book analyzed the Soviet bureaucracy as a privileged layer that had usurped political power while retaining state ownership. It is a major critique of Stalinism, but its categories and claims...

President Lázaro Cárdenas granted Trotsky asylum after European governments restricted his residence. Mexican labor, socialist, and anti-imperialist currents shaped the context of his final years;...

The commission held hearings after the Moscow Trials and found the charges against Trotsky unsubstantiated. The inquiry was convened by his supporters, a fact relevant to its evidentiary context;...