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This post has been a long time coming. Not only because it’s taken time to track down and convert some of these massive files into manageable sizes, though that also. Rather, it is more that I’ve been busy reassessing my own relationship to Trotsky’s works. Some reflections on his career, in thought and in deed, follow the documents posted below. For now, here are all fourteen volumes of his Writingsduring his last exile, from 1929 to 1940, along with his three-volume History of the Russian Revolution, his biographical works (his autobiography, biography of Lenin, and incomplete biography of Stalin), along with some of his earlier works (Results and Prospects, Terrorism and Communism, An Appeal to the Toiling, Oppressed, Exhausted Peoples of Europe,The Permanent Revolution, Problems of Everyday Life, Literature and Revolution, and Lessons of October).
Assorted Writings
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- Leon Trotsky, Permanent Revolution (1920) and Results and Prospects (1906)
- Leon Trotsky, An Appeal to the Toiling, Oppressed, and Exhausted Peoples of Europe(1915)
- Leon Trotsky, Dictatorship vs. Democracy: A reply to Karl Kautsky on Terrorism and Communism (1919)
- Leon Trotsky, Problems of Everyday Life: Creating the Foundations for a New Society in Revolutionary Russia (1922)
- Leon Trotsky, Literature and Revolution (1923)
- Leon Trotsky, Lessons of October (1924)
- Leon Trotsky, The Third International After Lenin (1928)
- Leon Trotsky, My Life (1928)
- Leon Trotsky, The Revolution Betrayed: What is the Soviet Union and Where is it Going?(1933)
- Leon Trotsky, Writings on Literature and Art(1905-1940)
- Leon Trotsky, Diary in Exile, 1935
- Leon Trotsky, Stalin: An Appraisal of the Man and His Influence (1940)
History of the Russian Revolution
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- Leon Trotsky, History of the Russian Revolution, Volume 1: The Overthrow of Tsarism
- Leon Trotsky, History of the Russian Revolution, Volume 2: Attempt at Counterrevolution
- Leon Trotsky, History of the Russian Revolution, Volume 3: The Triumph of the Soviets
Writings, 1929-1940
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- Leon Trotsky, Collected Writings, 1929
- Leon Trotsky, Collected Writings, 1930
- Leon Trotsky, Collected Writings, 1930-1931
- Leon Trotsky, Collected Writings, 1932
- Leon Trotsky, Collected Writings, 1932-1933
- Leon Trotsky, Collected Writings, 1933-1934
- Leon Trotsky, Collected Writings, 1934-1935
- Leon Trotsky, Collected Writings, 1935-1936
- Leon Trotsky, Collected Writings, 1936-1937
- Leon Trotsky, Collected Writings, 1937-1938
- Leon Trotsky, Collected Writings, 1938-1939
- Leon Trotsky, Collected Writings, 1939-1940
- Leon Trotsky, Collected Writings, Supplement (1929-1933)
- Leon Trotsky, Collected Writings, Supplement (1934-1940)
Enjoy. If you like this post and are looking for some other free downloads, check out my past entries dedicated to the works of Marx and Engels as well as those of Roland Barthes.
My reevaluation of the legacy of Leon Trotsky is largely due to my belated exposure to the left communist tradition. Or, more specifically, the writings of the Italian left communist Amadeo Bordiga. To be more specific still, Bordiga’s early writings — from 1919 to 1926 — have left a deep impression on me. As will become clear, I’d hardly endorse his entire corpus. Particularly his later stuff tends to be more hit or miss, though there’s still quite a bit to be learned from his undying (invariant) Bolshevism. His article “Against Activism” is an instant classic, and his longer essay on “The Factors of Race and Nation in Marxist Theory” is epic as well.
Council communism is a tradition I’m decidedly less keen upon. Early on, in the 1920s, when the Dutch councilists Herman Gorter and Anton Pannekoek hadn’t yet completely forsaken the role of the party, there was perhaps a little more substance to their arguments. Later, when Otto Rühle and Paul Mattick took up the mantle of council communism, their politics tended to devolve into empty moralizing and a quasi-religious faith in the spontaneity of the masses. Nevertheless, Mattick’s various articles on economic theory and his critique of nationalism are excellent. They almost cannot be recommended highly enough. Karl Korsch intersects with this milieu in his flight from Leninism, but only to his detriment.