Leon Trotsky Speaks

Among the topics in this book:

A defense of the right to revolution, made in 1906 from the prisoner's dock of the tsar's court

A 1915 manifesto calling for international workers' solidarity against World War One

Speeches as a leader of the wokers' and peasants' government that came to power in Russia in October 1917

"I stake my life!"--Trotsky's defiant 1937 challenge to the organizers of Joseph Stalin's frame-up trials, which were aimed at erasing the final living link to Lenin's leadership.