Edited and translated by Boris Souvarine, this is a French translation of Novyi kurs (New course), a work which grew out of a series of articles in Pravda in December 1923. An English translation of this work did not appear until 1943.

The first editions (in Russian, German and English) of Trotsky's classic analysis of British capitalism, its ruling-class ideology, and the bankruptcy of its socialist intellectuals. While this English edition has an introduction by noted British journalist H. N. Brailsford, it was subsequently replaced in a second edition by a translation of Trotsky's own introduction to the 1926 popular German edition (A copy of the second British edition, which was published by the Communist Party of Great Britain, is held at Sp Coll Bissett 515). Brailsford, Bertrand Russell and others accused Trotsky of gravely misrepresenting the British situation. Trotsky's reply to Russell was first printed in the newspaper Derites kak Chërti (Hold on like devils) in May 1926.
 

Mein Leben
Frankfurt: Fischer Verlag, 1930
Sp Coll Trotsky G37.35
Sp Coll Trotsky G37.50

The first German, Russian, English and Dutch editions of Trotsky's famous autobiography.

Istoriya Russkoi revolyutsii
Berlin: Granit, 1931-33, 2v. in 3
Sp Coll Trotsky R87.88-90

The first edition of Trotsky's History of the Russian Revolution, his major historical study.

Stalinskaya shkola fal'sifikatsii
Berlin: Granit, 1932
Sp Coll Trotsky R87.83
 

The first Russian and English language editions. An illustration in the English language edition shows the galley proofs of the minutes of the Petrograd Committee of Bolsheviks held on November 1(14). These minutes were omitted from the published edition of 1927, Trotsky argues, on account of the passage, marked in the margin, in which Lenin speaks of Trotsky with approval.

La revolution Trahie
Traduit de Russe par Victor Serge. 13e Edition.
Paris: Grasset, 1936
Sp Coll Trotsky F73.91
 

The Revolution Betrayed, Trotsky's Marxist analysis of what happened to the Russian Revolution after the death of Lenin, translated into French and Portugese.

The first Spanish edition of Ikh moral I nasha (Their morals and ours), perhaps the most striking statement by a Marxist on ethics.

A photocopy of the original document submitted to the fifteenth Congress of the All-Union Communist Party. This 'Draft platform of the Bolshevik-Leninist Opposition' was the principal statement of the Left Opposition and contained a summing up of every criticism of Stalinist policy. It was signed by thirteen prominent members of the Central Committee, among them Zinoviev, Kamenev, Rakovsky and Trotsky.

A review and some perspectives
Translated from the Russian by J. Fineberg
Moscow: Communist International, 1921
Sp Coll Trotsky E64.129

The first English edition of this work. Trotsky's preface is dated 1919.

Russland in der Revolution
Dresden: Kaden & Comp, pref. 1909
Sp Coll Trotsky G37.169

Written while in Vienna, this work provides an account of the 1905 revolution and the subsequent arrest, trial and banishment to Siberia of the leaders of the St Petersburg Soviet. It was later published under the title 1905. The final two chapters, dealing with Trotsky's escape, had earlier furnished material for a bestseller, Tuda I obratno (There and back), published in St. Petersburg in 1907.
 

Der Krieg und die Internationale
Zurich: 'Borba', (1914)
Sp Coll Trotsky G37.43

Three editions (the last much abbreviated) of Trotsky's statement of his anti-war policy. The US edition is said to have exerted a direct influence on President Wilson in the formulation of the Fourteen Points.

V plenu u Anglichan
(Prisoner of the British)
Petrograd: Kniga, 1917
[photocopy]
Sp Coll Trotsky R87.47

Describes his experience in the prisoner-of-war camp in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Ot Oktyabrya do Bresta
Kharkov: lzdatelstvo Proletarii, 1924
Sp Coll Trotsky R87.85

Four editions of Trotsky's first account of the October Revolution up to the peace negotiations with Germany at Brest-Litovsk: the third (really fourth) Russian; the first German; the second English; and the first Norwegian.
(For further reading on the peace negotiations: Russia and Germany at Brest-Litovsk by Judah L Magnes (New York: Rand School of Social Sciences, 1919) Sp Coll Trotsky 189)

The first edition of The Communist movement in France.

Voprosy byta
Moskva: Gosizdat, 1925.
Sp Coll Trotsky R87.76

The third Russian edition of Problems of life, a collection of essays dealing with various aspects of life, manners, drinking, family upheavals, the cinema etc. in post-revolutionary Russia.

Mon exil
Brussels: Editions du Groupe Communiste d'Opposition Belge, 1929.
Sp Coll Trotsky F73.112

A French translation of Chto I kak proizoshlo? (What and how it happened), explaining the circumstances of his exile from the Soviet Union.

The Draft Program of the Communist International: a criticism of fundamentals
New York: The Militant, 1929
Sp Coll Trotsky U72.29

Die internationale Revolution und die kommunistische Internationale
Berlin: Laubsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1929
Sp Coll Trotsky G37.27

The strategy of the world revolution
New York: Communist League of America, 1930
Sp Coll Trotsky U72.173

A critical commentary on the Draft programme drawn up by Bukharin and Stalin before the Sixth Congress of the Communist International. lt was sent to the Congress, but was never distributed to delegates or discussed. A copy, however, was secretly smuggled to the West by James Cannon and Maurice Spector. The German and first and second US editions are shown above. The US editions feature introductions from Cannon and Max Schachtman respectively.

La "troisième période" d'erreurs de I'Internationale Communiste
Paris: Libraire du Travail, 1930.
Sp Coll Trotsky F73.174

From the Bibiliothèqué de l'Opposition Communiste series. The Libraire du Travail imprint published several works by Trotsky, as well as others, including Victor Serge and Rosa Luxemburg.

The founding conference of the Fourth International: program and resolutions
New York: The Socialist Workers Party, 1939.
Sp Coll Trotsky Add 6

Includes congress greetings to Trotsky, as well as his article: The Death Agony of Capitalism and The Tasks of The Fourth International.

De Octubre rojo a mi destierro: ensayos
 
Madrid: Zeus, 1931
Sp Coll Trotsky S62.247

An unauthorised compilation of four of Trotsky's writings, translated by German Gomez de la Mata (i.e. Jorge Gorkin). The title is translated as From Red October to my exile.

What is a peace programme?
Petrograd: Bureau of International Propaganda, 1918
Sp Coll Trotsky E64.177

A photocopy of this rare edition. It was also printed in a later edition.

Other works of interest (thumbnails not included for copyright reasons):

Trotsky's diary in exile 1935
Cambridge (Mass.): Harvard U.P., 1958.
Sp Coll Trotsky U72.198

Dnevniki i pis'ma
(Diary and letters)
Tenafly (N.J.): Hermitage, 1986
Sp Coll Trotsky R87.123
The diary Trotsky kept in France and Norway during 1935, which was published in 1986 for the first time in Russian, and edited by Yuri Felshtinsky from the original manuscript, which is preserved in the Houghton Library of Harvard University.

Stalin: an appraisal of the man and his influence
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1946
Sp Coll Trotsky U72.160
Trotsky was working on this book at the time of his assassination in August 1940. He had only completed the first seven chapters and the appendix. The remaining five chapters were compiled from the author's extensive notes by Charles Malamuth, who also translated the work. This edition was ready in 1941 , but publication was delayed, on account of the war, until 1946.

Stalin
Benson (Vermont): Chalidze, 1985. 2v.
Sp Coll Trotsky R87.121-122
First edition of the Russian text, edited by Yuri Felshtinsky from the original manuscripts, notes and other documents in the Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Stalin
Barcelona: José Janés, 1948
Sp Coll Trotsky S62.207
This Spanish edition carries a note from Natalya Sedova, Trotsky's widow, disclaiming any responsibility for the additions and revisions made by Malamuth in the Harper edition, which she regards as expressing his own views.

My flight from Siberia
Translated by Malcolm Campbell
London: Slieger, 1977
Sp Coll Trotsky E64.91

A reprint of the Jugendinternationale edition of Tuda I obratno of 1923.

Translated as Work, discipline and order will save the Socialist Soviet Republic, the Finnish and German language editions of Trotsky's speech to the Russian Communist Party conference in Moscow, 28th March, 1918.

Entitled History of the Soviet of Workers' Deputies of St. Petersburg, this collection of essays has contributions by Trotsky (note the use of the initial 'N' rather than the later 'L') and Khrustalev-Nossar, who had preceded Trotsky as chairman of the Soviet.

Contains copies of documents, together with articles by Louis Fraina, John Reed, Sen Katayama, Albert Rhys Williams and others.

Trotsky on the ILP
Sp Coll Trotsky E64.238

Typescript carbon of an interview with Trotsky conducted by 'Robertson' (E Bimey) in Norway, 1935, on the nature of the Independent Labour Party.

Verbatim reports of the Moscow Trials, which followed in the wake of the assassination of Sergei Kirov, Secretary of the Communist Party in Leningrad in 1934. Zinoviev and Kamenev were accused of being responsible for his death, and together with many other supposed Zinovievites and Trotskyites, were indicted and tried for subversion and terrorist attacks against the Soviet Union.

The report of the commission set up to inquire into the charges made against Trotsky in the Moscow trials. It was headed by the American philosopher John Dewey and after nine months of deliberation, issued its findings, which established Trotsky's innocence.

Sp Coll Trotsky Pers

[photocopy]

This was the organ of the St Petersburg Interdistrict Organisation, and was founded by Trotsky with Alexandra Kollontai, Lunacharsky, Pokrovsky and Radek.

Byulleten' Oppozitsii
(Bulletin of the Opposition)
No.3-4, September, 1929
Sp Coll Trotsky Pers
 

Founded and edited by Trotsky, many of the articles in this periodical were written by the man himself. Both issues in the exhibition contain articles signed by Trotsky. The Trotsky collection also includes a reprint set of the full number, 1929-1941 (Sp Coll Trotsky Pers).

The Communist International
No.5, 1919
Sp Coll Trotsky Pers

Communist International
June 1, 1933
Sp Coll Trotsky Pers

The collection has several issues of this journal, mostly from the years 1919-1923. A complete set of the German version (1919-1923) is also held (Sp Coll Trotsky Pers).

A special edition of the French magazine, written by Victor Serge. It was also published as a book in English by Pioneer Publishers, New York in the same year (Sp Coll Trotsky 119).