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  • Leon Trotsky: Letter to the International Secretariat

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    [3 October 1935, published in The Crisis of the French Section [1935-36], New York 1977 pp. 55-58, “A Dangerous Symptom in Our Ranks”, originally published in Bulletin Interieur, ICL, no. 4, November 1935, where it was dated 4 November 1935. The correct date was provided by the German original at the Harvard archive. Translated from…

  • Leon Trotsky: What are the Tasks of the ‘Peasant Newspaper’?1

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    [Published on 17 November 1924 in ,Крестьянская Газета‘ [Krest’yanskaya Gazeta, Peasant Newspaper] No. 51. My own translation of the Russian reprint, published in Сочинения. Том 21. Москва-Ленинград, 1927. Проблемы культуры. Культура переходного периода {Sochineniya, Tom 21, Moskva-Leningrad, 1927. Problemy kul’tury. Kul’tura perekhodnogo perioda, Works, Volume 21, Moscow-Leningrad 1927. Problems of culture. Culture of the transition…

  • Leon Trotsky: Objections and Answers: The People’s Militia

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    [Published in La Vérité on 2 November 1934. My own translation of the French text. Corrections by English native speakers would be extremely welcome] No workers‘ pacifism. To be able to struggle, we must preserve and strengthen the instruments and means of struggle: organisations, the press, meetings, etc. Fascism threatens all this directly and immediately.…

  • Leon Trotsky: Introduction to the Tatar-Language Edition of Problems of Everyday Life

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    [October 29, 1924, A letter to the Central Publishing House of the Peoples of the East. English translation in: Problems of Everyday Life and Other Writings on Culture & Science. New York, London, Sydney 1973, p. 79] Dear Comrades: I will, of course, be very pleased by the appearance of my book Problems of Everyday…

  • The victorious city

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    [My own translation of the Russian text, published in Krasnaya Gazeta [Red Newspaper], No. 245, 26 October 1924, reprinted in Сочинения. Том 17, Советская Республика и капиталистический мир. Часть II. Гражданская война. Москва-Ленинград, 1926 {Sochineniya Tom 17, Sovietskaya Respublika i kapitalisticheskiy mir. Chast‘ II Grashdanskaya voyna. Moskva-Leningrad 1926, Works, Volume 17, The Soviet Republic and…

  • Leon Trotsky: On the answer of the English Section

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    [Letter to the IS, my own translation of the German text, typewritten copy in Lev Davidovič Trockij / International Left Opposition Archives, inventory number 1006, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam]. I was only able to take a very cursory look at the document. It is, predictably, based entirely on the alleged expulsion of the…

  • Leon Trotsky: Preface [to the Collection ‘West and East’.]

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    [My own translation of the Russian text. Correction by Russian or English native speakers would be extremely welcome] This book is a collection of speeches and articles relating to issues of international politics in recent months. The internal coherence of the parts of the book is given by the character of the ‘compromising’ historical chapter…