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rif. 9175417Short description: In Russian. Trotsky, Lev Davidovich. In captivity with the British. Moscow: All-Central Executive Committee, 1918. You are welcome to reach out to us for a detailed description of the copies currently available. Delivery of this book may take longer than usual including extended processing and pre-shipping time, no expedited shipping is available. Please advise us if you have a set date or a deadline to receive your order.SKU9175417
rif. 9175417Short description: In Russian. Trotsky Lev Davidovich. In captivity with the British. Moscow: All-Central Executive Committee 1918. The image is provided for reference only. It may reflect condition of one of the available copies or only help in identifying the edition. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKU9175417 unknown
rif. Z1-C-077-00049The Harvill Press. Used - Good. 1932 edition by Leon Trotsky. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library so some stamps and wear but in good overall condition. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry. The Harvill Press unknown
1937rif. 015351Doubleday Doran & Co. Stated First Edition. Unclipped DJ in archival cover edge wear small chips. . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1937. Doubleday, Doran, & Co. hardcover
rif. 122525London Thornton Butterworth Limited 1930. . First edition in English; large 8vo 240 x 165 mm; portrait frontispiece occasional light spotting more pronounced to prelims; modern full burgundy morocco with one-line gilt border spine in 6 compartments lettered and lined in gilt all edges gilt very good; 512pp. The first edition in English of the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky's autobiography My Life. The Rise and Fall of a Dictator. Trotsky 1879-1940 wrote the text during his exile to Kazakhstan following his expulsion from the Soviet Union in 1929. The book contains a frank account of his fall from power in the years following Lenin's death in 1924 after which a 'division began to reveal itself between the leaders who expressed the historical line of the class and could see beyond the apparatus and the apparatus itselfa huge cumbrous heterogeneous thing that easily sucked in the average communist' p.428. For sixty years owning smuggling or quoting 'My Life' inside the USSR was considered a severe counter-revolutionary crime that could result in imprisonment a sentence to a Gulag labour camp or execution. The total ban on 'My Life' and other Trotsky's political texts was only fully lifted around 19891990 during the final collapse of the Soviet Union. London, Thornton Butterworth, Limited, 1930. unknown
1937rif. 140949336Garden City NJ: Doubleday Doran & Company 1937. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition first printing. x 308 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with gilt and black spine lettering blocked on red red topstain. Near Fine with light wear and mottling to cloth light offsetting to free endpapers and ownership signature to front free endpaper. In a Near Fine dust jacket price of $2.50 intact and crossed through with pen with sunned spine panel light wear and vertical crease to front flap. A beautiful copy of this sharply-designed book an important and to some extent prophetic Marxist text. Trotsky wrote his denunciation of the new Soviet regime in exile after losing a power struggle with Stalin. The postscript to his introduction notes that the manuscript had been completed before Stalin's show trials kicked off the Great Purge and so "the proceedings of the trial could not be evaluated in its pages." The translator Max Eastman had personally observed the conflict between Trotsky and Stalin during a stay in the Soviet Union taking Trotsky's side and later becoming a friend. They remained friends until the former commissar was assassinated in Mexico in 1940. Doubleday, Doran & Company unknown
1930rif. 469117Berlin: Granit 1930. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Text in Russian. Two volumes. 12mos. Bound in red cloth over boards without the wrappers gilt spines. The text pages are modestly toned vol. 1 has a few light marginal check marks in pencil vol. 2 has one small quarter-inch line of worming at the back upper right corner and is slightly cocked very good overall. The rare first edition of Trotsky’s now classic autobiography My Life: An Attempt at an Autobiography. Written and published in the first year of Trotsky’s exile it covers both revolutions of 1905 and 1917 the Russian Civil War and the beginning of his epic conflict with Stalin. A plain attractive set appropriately bound in red cloth boards. Granit] hardcover
rif. 9175467Short description: In Russian. Trotsky, Lev Davidovich. Literature and Revolution. Moscow: Red Again: Glavpolitik, 1923. You are welcome to reach out to us for a detailed description of the copies currently available. Delivery of this book may take longer than usual including extended processing and pre-shipping time, no expedited shipping is available. Please advise us if you have a set date or a deadline to receive your order.SKU9175467
rif. 9175467Short description: In Russian. Trotsky Lev Davidovich. Literature and Revolution. Moscow: Red Again: Glavpolitik 1923. The image is provided for reference only. It may reflect condition of one of the available copies or only help in identifying the edition. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKU9175467 unknown
1924rif. 58185(Berlin, 1924). Original printed wrappers. A bit of browning to wrappers and a bit loose at the inner hinges. But overall in very nice condition. 59pp.
1924rif. 58185Berlin 1924. Original printed wrappers. A bit of browning to wrappers and a bit loose at the inner hinges. But overall in very nice condition. 59pp. First edition in the extremely scarce separate off-print of this seminal essay which appeared in October 1924 as the preface to the third volume of Trotsky's collected works. The essay now counts as a work in its own and was subsequently reprinted numerous times on its own by the Trotskyist movement. This seminal essay came to play a defining role in the development of post-Lenin politics in Russia. It was extremely critical of the purported revolutionary failings of two key members of the collective leadership that ruled Soviet Russia in the months after Lenin's death Grigory Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev and Trotsky was seen as main threat to the accession of power. The publication of his foundational essay on the October Revolution was used as a pretext for the Soviet leadership to isolate and attack Trotsky. It now constitutes a cornerstone of post-Revolutionaly Russian politics. "When Lenin was stricken with his first cerebral hemorrhage in May 1922 the question of eventual succession to the leadership of Russia became urgent. Trotsky owing to his record and his charismatic qualities was the obvious candidate in the eyes of the party rank and file but jealousy among his colleagues on the Politburo prompted them to combine against him. As an alternative the Politburo supported the informal leadership of the troika composed of Grigory Zinovyev Lev Kamenev and Stalin.In the winter of 1922-23 Lenin recovered partially and turned to Trotsky for assistance in correcting the errors of the troika particularly in foreign trade policy the handling of the national minorities and reform of the bureaucracy. In December 1922 warning in his then secret "Testament" of the danger of a split between Trotsky and Stalin Lenin characterized Trotsky as a man of "exceptional abilities" but "too far-reaching self-confidence and a disposition to be too much attracted by the purely administrative side of affairs." Just before he was silenced by a final stroke in March 1923 Lenin invited Trotsky to open an attack on Stalin but Trotsky chose to bide his time possibly contemplating an alliance against Zinovyev. Stalin moved rapidly to consolidate his hold on the Central Committee at the 12th Party Congress in April 1923.By fall alarmed by inroads of the secret police among party members and efforts to weaken his control of the war commissariat Trotsky decided to strike out against the party leadership. In October he addressed a wide-ranging critique to the Central Committee stressing especially the violation of democracy in the party and the failure to develop adequate economic planning. Reforms were promised and Trotsky responded with an open letter detailing the direction they should take. This however served only as the signal for a massive propaganda counterattack against Trotsky and his supporters on grounds of factionalism and opportunism. At this critical moment Trotsky fell ill of an undiagnosed fever and could take no personal part in the struggle. Because of Stalin's organizational controls the party leadership easily won and the "New Course" controversy was terminated at the 13th Party Conference in January 1924 the first substantially stage-managed party assembly with the condemnation of the Trotskyist opposition as a Menshevik-like illegal factional deviation. Lenin's death a week later only confirmed Trotsky's isolation. Convalescing on the Black Sea coast Trotsky was deceived about the date of the funeral failed to return to Moscow and left the scene to Stalin. His eulogy for the late party leader was in effect delivered in a biography of Lenin that Trotsky wrote for the 13th edition 1926 of the Encyclopædia Britannica.Attacks on Trotsky did not cease. When the 13th Party Congress in May 1924 repeated the denunciations of his violations of party discipline Trotsky vainly professed his belief in the omnipotence of the party. The following fall he took a different tack in his essay "The Lessons of October 1917" linking the opposition of Zinovyev and Kamenev to the October Revolution with the failure of the Soviet-inspired German communist uprising in 1923. The party leadership replied with a wave of denunciation counterposing Trotskyism to Leninism denigrating Trotsky's role in the Revolution and denouncing the theory of permanent revolution as a Menshevik heresy. In January 1925 Trotsky was removed from the war commissariat." Encycl. Britt. unknown
1936rif. 97388New York: Pioneer Publishers 1936. First edition of this collection of writings and speeches by Trotsky. Octavo original cloth. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication "To Comrade Max Sterling fraternally Leon Trotsky 8/7 1936 Weksel Norway." After being exiled from the Soviet Union Trotsky lived in a number of places Norway among them. The Norwegian Labor Party which rose to power in 1935 had had previous affiliations with the Communist International and the Second International prompting Trotsky to seek and obtain a visa from Oslo. Bookplate to the front pastedown very good in a very good dust jacket. Translated by John G. Wright. With an introduction and explanatory notes by Max Shachtman. Uncommon signed and inscribed. Written in 1928 this is Trotsky's alternative to Stalin's course toward gutting the revolutionary program of the Communist International. "An international communist program is in no case the sum total of national programs or an amalgam of their common features" Trotsky wrote. "In the present epoch to a much larger extent than in the past the national orientation of the proletariat must and can flow only from a world orientation and not vice versa." Suppressed by Stalin in the Soviet Union its publication elsewhere in the world helped gather the forces that continued the fight to build a revolutionary international movement of the working class. Pioneer Publishers hardcover books
1936rif. 97388New York: Pioneer Publishers 1936. First edition of this collection of writings and speeches by Trotsky. Octavo original cloth. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication "To Comrade Max Sterling fraternally Leon Trotsky 8/7 1936 Weksel Norway." After being exiled from the Soviet Union Trotsky lived in a number of places Norway among them. The Norwegian Labor Party which rose to power in 1935 had had previous affiliations with the Communist International and the Second International prompting Trotsky to seek and obtain a visa from Oslo. Bookplate to the front pastedown very good in a very good dust jacket. Translated by John G. Wright. With an introduction and explanatory notes by Max Shachtman. Uncommon signed and inscribed. Written in 1928 this is Trotsky's alternative to Stalin's course toward gutting the revolutionary program of the Communist International. "An international communist program is in no case the sum total of national programs or an amalgam of their common features" Trotsky wrote. "In the present epoch to a much larger extent than in the past the national orientation of the proletariat must and can flow only from a world orientation and not vice versa." Suppressed by Stalin in the Soviet Union its publication elsewhere in the world helped gather the forces that continued the fight to build a revolutionary international movement of the working class. Pioneer Publishers hardcover
rif. 9175495"Short description: In Russian. Trotsky, Lev Davidovich. October Revolution. Moscow; Petrograd: Communist, 1918. You are welcome to reach out to us for a detailed description of the copies currently available. Delivery of this book may take longer than usual including extended processing and pre-shipping time, no expedited shipping is available. Please advise us if you have a set date or a deadline to receive your order.SKU9175495"
rif. 9175495Short description: In Russian. Trotsky Lev Davidovich. October Revolution. Moscow; Petrograd: Communist 1918. The image is provided for reference only. It may reflect condition of one of the available copies or only help in identifying the edition. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKU9175495 unknown
1937rif. 015339Doubleday Doran & Co. Signed by Author. Stated First Edition. Signed by the author on the third free end page dated 1937 & he gives his location given in blue ink in Coyoacan Mexico where he lived with Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo and where he was assassinated by the KGB. This book has been rebound in black buckram. There is a very slight dampstaining on the second free end page which does not impact or harm the signature at all. A very scarce autograph. No DJ. In archival cover. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1937. Doubleday, Doran, & Co. hardcover
1938rif. 167061Coyoacán Mexico: 24 July 1938. A revolutionary party must of necessity base itself on the youth Trotsky writes in English from exile in Mexico to the socialist youth of America stating the importance of young people to a revolutionary party condemning Stalinism and urging them to increase their political experience. From 1937 until his assassination by Stalin's agents in 1940 Trotsky lived in Coyoacán a suburb of Mexico City. He continued a worldwide campaign for his form of Communism remained closely linked to favourable socialist organizations and wrote prolifically. The Young People's Socialist League was the official youth arm of the Socialist Party of America. Unlike the pro-Stalinist Communist Party of America the Socialist Party took a more pro-Trotsky line and the then-leader of the league Ray Sparrow was linked to the American Committee for the defence of Leon Trotsky. Trotsky writes: "the revolutionary character of a party can be judged in the first instance by its capacity to attract to its banner the working class youth. The basic attribute of socialist youth - and I have in mind the genuine youth and not old men at twenty - lies in its readiness to give itself fully and completely to the cause of socialism". While they must give themselves fully to the cause he urges them to avoid doctrinaire stubbornness and the repetition of formulas. This leads to "sectarianism and pedantic phrase-mongering" which impedes fighting the main enemy within the movement: "opportunism especially its most viscous and malignant form - Stalinism that syphilis of the working class movement". He hopes the league's conference "will become an important stage on the road of acquiring political experience on the granite basis of Marxist program". The article was published in Trotsky's Collected Writings 1937-38 in 1970. Trotsky makes an emendation on the typescript removing two words which was not made in the published writings. Two leaves 281 x 215 mm 582 words typed one side only signed in blue ink. Old fold lines a little toned and creased a few nicks at extremities. In very good condition. unknown
1906rif. 3660St. Petersburg, Tipografija Spb. aki. obschch. "Slovo". Ul. Zukovskago, 21, 1906. (2), 98 SS. Halbleinenband der Zeit, die bedruckte Originalbroschur mitgebunden. 8vo.
