A word of caution: this search strategy will not find materials that were reprinted at a later date. If we make no move it seems possible that the Germans will ask the Russians to help them in enforcing the Russian peace terms on the Allies." The Party Congress agreed with Lenin and the Workers' Opposition was dissolved. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. In Capitalism and War, published in Iskra, he gave the example of the Russo-Japanese which he believed could be "the bloody dawn of coming great events". Long live the international workers' and peasants' revolution! Obviously this is impossible. Perhaps something had fallen from the ceiling - some repair work was being done there - but why was he here? (57), On 2nd December 1905, Trotsky published its "financial manifesto, which proclaimed that the financial bankruptcy of Tsarism was inevitable, and issued a categorical warning that the debts incurred by the Romanovs would not be recognized by the victorious nation". On 4th October, these men signed a statement admitting that they were guilty of offences against the statutes of the party and pledged themselves to disband their party within the party. Comrades, preserve revolutionary order! Lenin had reached the city the previous month. (42), Trotsky believed that Bloody Sunday made the revolution much more likely. He was the brains and the planner, but not the orator or the rabble-rouser. Lenin and Rosa Luxemburg both endorsed the theory, whereas Martov was far from convinced. (170). Bukharin believed the NEP offered a framework for the country's more peaceful and evolutionary "transition to socialism" and disregarded traditional party hostility to kulaks. A man with an exaggerated vanity which was almost an illness with him, he came to hate Trotsky because of the very necessity of referring to him for advice and direction." The Brest-Litovsk Treaty resulted in the Russians surrendering the Ukraine, Finland, the Baltic provinces, the Caucasus and Poland. How many times in the course of that day did he mount the little steps of this same balcony, and walk into this, his room, and sit down on this very same chair beside the desk... All this used to hem ordinary and is now by its very ordinariness so terrible and tragic. Each floor was crowded with soldiers and Red Guards, who went from room to room, searching for arms, and arresting officers suspected of anti-Bolshevik sympathies. (133), General Vemrenko's army failed in their efforts to cut the vital railway from Tosno to Moscow allowing the Red Army to freely reinforce Petrograd. It was to such political paralysis that the Norwegian Socialist government subjected us. They also knew that if their behaviour did not please him they would be replaced. (192), Stalin appointed his old friend, Gregory Ordzhonikidze, to the presidency of the Central Control Commission in November 1926, where he was given responsibility for expelling the Left Opposition from the Communist Party. He still regarded the party, no matter how or by whom it was led, as the legitimate spokesman of the working-class. George Bernard Shaw said of these books: "When Trotsky cuts off his opponent's head, he holds it up to show that there are no brains in it." By the 8th January over 110,000 workers in St. Petersburg were on strike. From the Marxists Internet Archive (December 1932) Trotsky's pamphlet about Kirov's assassination It stirred us to embarrassment, nothing more. The foreign press were allowed to attend the trial and were shocked to hear that Zinoviev, Kamenev and the other defendants, were part of a terrorist organisation, under the leadership of Leon Trotsky, were attempting to overthrow the communist government of the Soviet Union. The citizen slept in peace, ignorant of the change from one power to another. "I shall say but this, there will plainly not be any developed democracy, any full democracy." Trotsky reported that the "chief of the machine-gun company came to tell me that his men were all on the side of the Bolsheviks". Stalin now began to attack Trotsky's belief in the need for world revolution. Reproduced below is the text of Leon Trotsky's formal announcement of Bolshevik foreign policy, dated 20 November 1917. At twenty minutes past five, perhaps at half past, I stepped out on the balcony and saw L. D. in the patio near an open rabbit hutch. Perhaps he may think that we have somehow forgotten about him, left him to his fate." Chernov issued circulars that supported the actions of the local land committees in reducing the rents of land leased by the peasants, seizing untilled fields for peasant use and commanding prisoner-of-war labour from private landowners. The document was comprised of his thoughts on the senior members of the party leadership. (205), According to Alexander Orlov, who had been told this by Genrikh Yagoda, Stalin decided that Kirov had to die. It echoed the call made by Leon Trotsky, a week earlier, calling for a sharp change of direction by the party. It is believed these were intended for Reiss's wife and daughter. It was hoped that this operation would restore his health. He told his aide-de-camp, that "the time had come to hang the German agents and spies, headed by Lenin, to disperse the Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies so that it can never reassemble." But his thought lacked courage; his insight was devoid of will. Everything depends on circumstances. He was not brilliant like Trotsky nor clever in the use of words; nor had he the humanity of Lenin, who ordered a Christmas-tree for the children on the country estate where he was living in the year before he died. Whereas, Stalin "nasty, suspicious, cruel, and power-hungry, Stalin could not abide brilliant and independent people around him." They argued that the Bolsheviks did not have the support of the majority of people in Russia or of the international proletariat and should wait for the elections of the proposed Constituent Assembly "where we will be such a strong opposition party that in a country of universal suffrage our opponents will be compelled to make concessions to us at every step, or we will form, together with the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries, non-party peasants, etc., a ruling bloc which will fundamentally have to carry out our programme." Two days later to his obvious discomfiture the very letter was produced in court by State Prosecutor Vyshinsky. The Stalin School of Falsification. Joseph Stalin could not afford for any witnesses to the conspiracy to remain alive. Much was said in the Moscow trial about my alleged "hatred" for Stalin. ——. Primary and Secondary Sources on Leon Trotsky? Schottmann argued that the Bolsheviks lacked the experts to run the machinery of state. I asked him what he foresaw at the end of the war. He toured the Eastern Front where he made a series of emotional speeches where he appealed to the troops to continue fighting. He was later to argue: "The utopian hopes of the epoch of military communism came in later for a cruel, and in many respects just, criticism. Leon Trotsky was a communist with a unique worldview. He settled into a house in Coyoacán in 1936. His suit hung on him as on a clothes hanger. (5), At first the Spentzers were unable to find a school for Trotsky. The truth of the matter is that I personally did not participate in the least in the suppression of the Kronstadt rebellion, nor in the repressions following the suppression. Ransome's article on Leon Trotsky appeared in the Daily News on 31st December, 1917. Primary Source Quotes Tom Ryan, Woodleigh School . Russia was "surrounded by the wolves of imperialism; and to discuss all important matters in 20,000 party cells would mean to lay all one's cards before the enemy." Natalia recalled: "The autumn of 1902 was marked by frequent lectures in the Russian colony in Paris. Were against the Secretariat, by actually combining politics and organisation, standing above the political body… Personally I suggest that our General Secretary is not the kind of figure who can unite the old Bolshevik high command around him. Parvus went on to argue: "The war began because of Manchuria and Korea, it has already become a battle for hegemony in Eastern Asia, it will extend into the question of the world position of autocratic Russia and will conclude with a transformation of the political balance of the whole world. They joined the Social Democratic Party and moved to Paris where they associated with Lenin, George Plekhanov, Pavel Axelrod, Vera Zasulich and Julius Martov and became involved in producing the journal Iskra. (130), Trotsky announced his strategy on how to defeat the White Army. He was sparing me. Author of. An interesting illustration of this was provided by the accused Krestinsky in connection with the letter which he claimed to have sent to Trotsky in 1927, severing his connection with the Trotskyist movement. He realised that Father Gapon had shown the way forward: "Now no one can deny that the general strike is the most important means of fighting. Adler took him to see the police chief who admitted that he had just received orders to arrest residents who held Russian citizenship. He also appealed to the owners of the newspapers in Russia to "help me to calm opinions". I spoke a great deal with Smirnov about choosing people for terroristic activities and also designated the persons against whom the weapon of terrorism was to be directed. The march of historical progress cannot be halted. The son of Lavrenty Beria commented that his "kind eyes, grey hair and big moustache, gave him the look of an old Georgian prince". To apply these methods of defense from day to day was impossible. (189), At the 14th Congress of the Communist Party in December, 1925, Zinoviev spoke up for others on the left when he declared: "There exists within the Party a most dangerous right deviation. Joseph Stalin, whose wife Nadya Alliluyeva worked in Lenin's private office, soon discovered the contents of the letter sent to Leon Trotsky. (28), The petition contained a series of political and economic demands that "would overcome the ignorance and legal oppression of the Russian people". Millionfold classes, not the least of them being the vast bureaucratic apparatus and entrenched police machine, had developed a sizable stake in the status quo of Nep. Every Government in Europe is feeling the pressure of democracy from below. When it was clear that the Bolshevik Central Committee did not accept Lenin's point of view he issued a political ultimatum: "I am compelled to tender my resignation from the Central Committee, which I hereby do, leaving myself the freedom of propaganda in the lower ranks of the party and at the party congress. The manifesto pointed out: "The autocracy never enjoyed the confidence of the people and was never granted any authority by the people. So finally, after years of work, the book was finished. This protracted massacre was either supervised or permitted by Dzerzhinsky." This was an unpopular decision with many Bolsheviks who feared that given the opportunity, they would betray their own troops. Alexandra had two daughters, Zinaida Volkova (1901) and Nina Nevelson (1902). (220), The French government came under pressure from Fascists and Stalinists to expel Trotsky from the country. We are treated as slaves, who must bear their fate and be silent. By Leon Trotsky, Irving Howe. (124), After the October Revolution it was decided by Lenin that the old Russian Army would have to be turned into an instrument of the Communist Party. Lenin disagreed: "Any worker can learn to run a ministerial office in a few days. In my eyes this very fact is of no political significance. Lev Davidovich accepted this calmly, almost indifferently as though one could not expect any other pronouncement from a physician in such a situation. Nothing bespoke its ominousness. Another 200,000-400,000 died in prison or were executed as a result of the "Red Terror". "He never wears a hat.". And he was completely lost in his own thoughts, and very nervous. We are impoverished and oppressed, unbearable work is imposed on us, we are despised and not recognized as human beings. Reproduced below is the text of Leon Trotsky's report on the progress of negotiations with Germany for a preliminary armistice in early December 1917. The whole town was alive with talk about revolutionaries who were flooding the mills with their handbills. This enabled Stalin to remove thousands of supporters of Leon Trotsky, his main rival for the leadership of the party. We swear to you, comrade Lenin, that we will not spare our own lives in strengthening and broadening the union of labouring people of the whole world - the Communist International." By Leon Trotsky, Irving Howe . (60), While in prison Trotsky wrote Permanent Revolution: Results and Prospects. The economic and financial crisis beginning at the end of July of the present year, with all the political, including internal Party, consequences resulting from it, has inexorably revealed the inadequacy of the leadership of the Party, both in the economic domain, and especially in the domain of internal Party, relations. He stayed at the home of his mother's nephew, Moissei Spentzer. He also appointed his allies, Vyacheslav Molotov, Kliment Voroshilov, Gregory Ordzhonikidze, Lazar Kaganovich, Sergy Kirov, Semen Budenny and Andrei Andreev. Trotsky was forced to recruit a large number of officers from the old army. Trotsky was born in Yanovka, Ukraine in 1879, the son of a prosperous farmer. The low ceilings leaked during a heavy rain, especially in the hall, and pots and basins would be placed on the dirt floor to catch the water. We were all in favour of agitation, of revolutionizing the working classes of Germany, Austria-Hungary and all of Europe." On this point there was not even a shadow of disagreement between Lenin and me. He wanted to strike me... once more... but I didn't let him," he spoke calmly, quietly, his voice breaking. includes leaders of Russia, the Russian Empire, and the Soviet Union Term of Office 1917-1924 a.k.a. That is why, in our struggle with the government, despite everything, we must retain a sense of proportion.... To support anarchy in the name of the struggle with the government would be to risk all the political conquests we have made since 1905." We lived in a little mud house. Primary sources found at the PSCP also include auction house catalogs and estate inventories. His arrogance, intellect, flashiness and his Jewishness certainly offended ordinary Bolsheviks. They initially saw the post of General Secretary as being no more that "Lenin's mouthpiece". Summary execution of prisoners and hostages continues." Although he resisted, he eventually became a Marxist like his girlfriend. I watched the latter, several times that evening, rouse the Congress delegates, who were becoming listless, probably through long hours of excitement and waiting. Stalin reacted to the news by announcing that Lenin was to be embalmed and put on permanent display in a mausoleum to be erected on Red Square. Three days after writing this testament Lenin had a third stroke. (73), George Plekhanov defended the socialists of the Allied countries for their patriotism as they had to give their full support to their governments against German militarism. Our conditions are hard and severe, but our quite exceptional victories entitle us to demand these, since our troops are nearly in Petersburg, and further over on the southern front, Kiev has been occupied, while in the last week we have captured the following men and items of equipment: 6,800 officers, 54,000 men, 2,400 guns, 5,000 machine-guns, 8,000 railway trucks, 8,000 locomotives, 128,000 rifles and 2 million rounds of artillery ammunition. He settled in Vienna and supported himself as a correspondent in the Balkan Wars of 1912–13. Primary and Contemporaneous Sources. Lenin's wife, Nadezhda Krupskaya, immediately objected because she disliked the "quasi-religious" implications of this decision. Please go to Mexico City and warn Trotsky." By early November, Trotsky had all but sacked the capital city. Ramon Mercader became a regular visitor while he was living in Mexico City. He was not very impressed and it is claimed that his first action was to order Ivan Pavlunovsky, chief of the special section of the Petrograd Cheka, "Comrade Pavlunovsky, I command you to arrest immediately and shoot the entire staff for the defence of Petrograd." that had first been advanced by Karl Marx in The Holy Family (1844). About sixty guns were placed behind cover on the open squares and at the more important street-crossings. The anarchist ideas of Makhno (the ignoring of the State, non-recognition of the central power) corresponded to the spirit of the kulak cavalry as nothing else could. Instead I asked: He did not appear to understand me. The agrarian disorders point to the same thing. Robert V. Daniels, the author of Red October: The Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 (1967) has argued that "Trotsky gave Lenin valuable oratorical talent and a further boost for his policy of revolutionary hostility to the war and the Provisional Government.". He answered 'Sichas' which literally translated is "immediately", but in practice means tomorrow, or next week! At the age of eight, he was sent to school in Odessa, where he spent eight years with the family of his mother’s nephew, a liberal intellectual. In my eyes this very fact is of no political significance. During the first day of the trial, he insisted that the contents of this letter cleared him of all suspicions and demanded to know why it had not been produced. In his first speech he announced what became known as the April Theses. He remained the leader of an anti-Stalinist opposition abroad until his assassination by a Stalinist agent. (144), On 6th March, 1921, Leon Trotsky issued a statement: "I order all those who have raised a hand against the Socialist Fatherland, immediately to lay down their weapons. (10), After escaping Leon Trotsky met Natalia Sedova. Joe was kneeling on the floor as I was, on the other side, just opposite me. (186), Stalin tried to give the impression he was an advocate of the middle-course. Soviet Commissar of Foreign Affairs 1917–1918 and Commissar of Military and Naval Affairs 1918–1924. I asked him as he walked away: "Is your article ready?". (70), On the outbreak of the First World War Trotsky was living in Vienna. The Bolshevik popular slogan "Peace, Bread and Land", helped to increase support for the revolutionaries. In 1932, 1933 and 1934 I personally maintained relations with Tomsky and Bukharin and sounded their political sentiments. By the summer of 1917, the membership of the Bolshevik Party had grown to 240,000. He argued for the "tsarist monarchy to be defeated and the imperialist war turned into a European-wide civil war." The vise is tightened by several turns. Politically, you were always right, beginning with 1905, and I told you repeatedly that with my own ears I had heard Lenin admit that even in 1905, you, and not he, were right. Third, there are remarkable profiles, one-sided and unfair to the point of caricature, but always vivid and revealing, of all the principle actors. A bar of chocolate or a pound of tasteless candy cost anywhere from seven to ten roubles - at least a dollar. Anatoli Lunacharsky agreed: "I must say that Trotsky, of all the Social Democratic leaders of 1905-06, undoubtedly showed himself, in spite of his youth, the best prepared; and he was the least stamped by the narrow emigre outlook which handicapped even Lenin. The rooms were small, the windows dim; the floors in the two rooms and the nursery were of clay and bred fleas. (71), Russian revolutionaries had a meeting in Switzerland to discuss the war. The reason given by the Bolshevik leaders for the Red terror was that conspirators could only be convinced that the Soviet Republic was powerful enough to be respected if it was able to punish its enemies, but nothing would convince these enemies except the fear of death, as all were persuaded that the Soviet Republic was falling. This is the most shameless deception of public opinion that can be imagined. You are right, but the guarantee of the victory of your rightness lies in nothing but the extreme unwillingness to yield, the strictest straightforwardness, the absolute rejection of all compromise; in this very thing lay the secret of Lenin's victories. As the result of a Party leadership distorted by such narrow considerations, the Party is to a considerable extent ceasing to be that living independent collectivity which sensitively seizes living reality because it is bound to this reality with a thousand threads." Beside him was an unfamiliar figure. I ought to warn him that he will run into a wall, against which, I am afraid, he will smash his head." New York: New International Publishing Co., 1943. When he heard the news of Bloody Sunday, Leon Trotsky decided to return to Russia. However, in private he realised that he was under attack from the left. The procession reached Okhotny Ryad, not far from the Kremlin. (46), A delegation of the mutinous sailors arrived in Geneva with a message addressed directly to Father Gapon. (103), After the failed Kornilov Revolt it was considered safe for Lenin to return to Petrograd. The best, most sacrificing sailors were completely withdrawn from Kronstadt and played an important role at the fronts and in the local Soviets throughout the country. He overlooked their foibles so long as their work remained unaffected and the recognised his word as law." The first few pages, I recall, seemed to me pale. The Russian Marxists, including Trotsky during his earliest years, took part in the fight against the adventuristic tactic of individual terror and its illusions, which counted not upon the movement of the masses of workers, but on the terrorists' bomb to open the road to revolution. Trotsky continued to denounce the war and joined with the pacifists in urged workers not to participate in the conflict. On August 20, 1940, Spanish communist Ramón Mercader fatally struck Trotsky with an ice pick. (206), Zaporozhets provided him with a pistol and gave him instructions to kill Kirov in the Smolny Institute in Leningrad. According to one report this action "would have led to the formation of vagabond gangs and, of course, would only have strengthened the peasant movement". If it suffices to arm oneself with a revolver to arrive at the goal, why then the efforts of the class struggle? Reproduced below is the text of Leon Trotsky's report on the progress of negotiations with Germany for a preliminary armistice in early December 1917. My Life: An Attempt at an Autobiography. (68), The couple now moved to Vienna: "The house was better than we could usually get, as the villas here were usually rented in the spring, and we rented ours for the autumn and winter. He organized and supervised the forces that broke Kerensky’s efforts at the Battle of Pulkovo on November 13. Trotsky survived the incident. The Battalion of Death had walked out in the night, without firing so much as a single shot. He finally found a place at a school where he received instruction in science, mathematics and modern languages. But neither the bullet-proof vest nor a helmet could have served as safeguards. (36), Father Gapon escaped uninjured from the scene and sought refuge at the home of Maxim Gorky: "Gapon by some miracle remained alive, he is in my house asleep. Within a few days Bolsheviks had enlisted 25,000 armed recruits to defend Petrograd. Lenin stated: "Comrade Stalin, having become General Secretary, has concentrated enormous power in his hands: and I am not sure that he always knows how to use that power with sufficient caution. The confrontation of Bukharin with the “Left” Social-Revolutionaries Karelin and Kamkov with whom he had been in conspiratorial alliance in 1918 to overthrow the Soviet Government, arrest and kill Lenin, Stalin and Sverdlov and form a new government of Bukharinites and “Left” Social-Revolutionaries was as conclusive as it was dramatic, and was backed up by the production of three of the people who had been members of Bukharin’s own group of “Left” Communists at that time and who had participated in the plot. Official figures suggest that 527 people were killed and 4,127 were wounded. (82), Leon Trotsky gave Lenin his full support: "I told Lenin that nothing separated me from his April Theses and from the whole course that the party had taken since his arrival." The reason I have found him so much more difficult to do than I expected is on account of his triple personality. Nothing compels us to remain in an atomised Europe. Believing that, he could proclaim on his deathbed his confidence in the future victory of the Fourth International which embodies his ideas. Trotsky was all tension and energy; he was, besides, an orator of unique quality, whose metallic voice projected a great distance, ejaculating its short sentences that were often sardonic and always infused with a truly spontaneous passion. There were so many cases that it was impossible to impose on offenders that the punishment decreed earlier in the year, the confiscated of their land. The world bourgeoisie can and must reckon with Stalin as a serious ally, as the head of a nation-state. He pictured Hitler as a master strategist, more formidable than Stalin. But he went with Stalin for the time being. Locked in the embrace of death, they tumble into a common grave. (115), Arthur Ransome interviewed Leon Trotsky on 28th December 1917. On 7th September, Kornilov demanded the resignation of the Cabinet and the surrender of all military and civil authority to the Commander in Chief. Trotsky spoke frankly and showed a sense of humor, as when I asked whether he would like to visit the United States. Nikolai Sukhanov, a member of the Socialist Revolutionary Party argued that in Russia there was "a hatred for Kerenskyism, fatigue, rage and a thirst for peace, bread and land". Stalin favoured what he called "socialism in one country" whereas Trotsky still supported the idea of world revolution. It is compelling as an adventure story – the ultimate rise and fall – but also revelatory as the scholarly revision of a historical reputation. "Perhaps he preferred to play a leading role without being the solitary leader. As he pointed out: "Through all these horrible days, I constantly met Witte. The congress, constituted of the creatures of the Central Committee, amiably cries Hurrah!, approves all its successful and unsuccessful actions, and applauds all its plans and initiatives." He wrote that he suspected that five of the sixteen defendants (K.B. It is not certain whether Trotsky directly instigated their demonstration." If they are correct ideas, they make their way through all obstacles. (121), Leon Trotsky recalled in his autobiography: "On 21st February, we received new terms from Germany, framed, apparently, with the direct object of making the signing of peace impossible. The following month he took Samara but the White Army did make progress in the south when General Anton Denikin took control of the Kuban region and General Peter Wrangel began to advance up the Volga. 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