Leon Trotsky and World War One

1. Front Matter

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2. Switzerland

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   Pages 1-10

3. Kievskaya Mysl

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   Pages 11-25

4. The Censor in Paris

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   Pages 26-37

5. Lenin and the Bolsheviks

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   Pages 38-75

6. Martov and the Mensheviks

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   Pages 76-110

7. Russian Social-Patriotism in Paris

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8. Russian Politics

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9. European Social-Democracy

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   Pages 164-190

10. From the Old World to the New: Spain and America

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    Pages 191-209

11. Conclusion

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12. Back Matter

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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.

• 20. Jahrhundert
• 20th century
• 5327
• Bolsheviks
• democracy
• Europe
• Russia
• Spain
• Vladimir Lenin

• Department of History, University of Leicester, UK

  Ian D. Thatcher

IAN 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.

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