Trotsky & Trotskyism
(see also Russia: Bolshevik Revolution)
Basics
On the Web: Articles
Genesis of Trotskyism (Max Schachtman).
Trotskyism or Leninism? (J.V. Stalin, 1924).
On the Web: Specialized Sites
International Socialist Organization (publishes Socialist Worker).
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Alexander, Robert J. Trotskyism in Latin America (Stanford: Hoover Institution, 1973).
__________. International Trotskyism, 1929-1985: A Documented Analysis of the Movement (Durham NC: Duke, 1991).
Ali, Tariq. Trotsky for Beginners (NY: Pantheon, 1980).
Beilharz, Peter. Trotsky, Trotskyism & the Transition to Socialism (London: Croom Helm, 1987).
Benton, Gregor. China's Urban Revolutionaries: Explorations in the History of Chinese Trotskyism, 1921-1952 (Atlantic Highlands NJ: Humanities, 1996).
Bornstein, Sam & Al Richardson. Against the Stream: A History of the Trotskyist Movement in Britain, 1924-1938 (London: Socialist Platform, 1986).
__________ & Al Richardson. The War & the International: A History of the Trotskyist Movement in Britain, 1937-1949 ( London: Socialist Platform, 1986).
Brotherstone, Terry & Paul Dukes (eds.) The Trotsky Reappraisal (Edinburgh: U. Edinburgh, 1992).
Broue, Pierre. Trotsky (Paris: Fayard, 1988).
__________. Trotsky y la Guerra Civil Española (Buenos Aires: Alvarez, 1966).
Callaghan, John. British Trotskyism: Theory & Practice (Oxford: Blackwell, 1984).
Callinicos, Alex. Trotskyism (Minneapolis: U. Minnesota, 1990).
Campbell, J.R. Soviet Policy & its Critics (London: Victor Gollancz, 1939).
Carmichael, Joel. Trotsky: An Appreciation of His Life (NY: St. Martin's, 1975).
Charpier, Frederic. Histoire de l'extreme gauche trotskiste: de 1929 a nos jours (Paris: Editions 1, 2002).
Cliff, Tony. Trotsky (3 vols.; Chicago: Bookmarks, 1989-91).
Coggiola, Osvaldo. Historia del trotskismo en Argentina (1929-1960) (Buenos Aires: Centro Editor de América Latina, 1985).
__________. El trotskismo en la Argentina (1960-1985) (Buenos Aires: Centro Editor de América Latina, 1986).
Craipeau, Yvan. Memoires d'un dinosaure trotskyste: secretaire de Trotsky en 1933 (Paris: L'Harmattan, 1999).
Daniels, Robert V. Trotsky, Stalin, & Socialism (Boulder: Westview, 1991).
Davidson, Carl. Left in Form, Right in Essence: A Critique of Contemporary Trotskyism (NY: Guardian, 1973).
Day, Richard B. Leon Trotsky & the Politics of Economic Isolation (Cambridge: Cambridge U, 1973).
Deutscher, Isaac. The Prophet Armed: Trotsky, 1879-1921(NY: Oxford, 1954).
__________. The Prophet Unarmed: Trotsky, 1921-1929 (NY: Oxford, 1959).
__________. The Prophet Outcast: Trotsky, 1929-1940 (NY: Oxford, 1963).
Dmitriev, Sergei S. A History of the Struggle Against Trotskyism (Moscow: Novosti, 1974).
Dugrand, Alain. Trotsky in Mexico (Manchester: Carcanet, 1992).
Eastman, Max. Leon Trotsky: The Portrait of a Youth (NY: Greenberg, 1925).
__________. Since Lenin Died (NY: Boni & Liveright, 1925).
__________. Great Companions: Critical Memoirs of Some Famous Friends (NY: Farrar, Strauss & Cudahy, 1959).
Feferman, Anita Burdman. Politics, Logic, & Love: The Life of Jean van Heijenoort (Boston: Jones & Bartlett, 1993).
Ferra i Martorell, Miquel. La guerra secreta de Ramón Mercader (Barcelona: la Magrana, 1987).
Gall, Olivia. Trotsky en México: y la vida política en el período de Cárdenas, 1937-1940 (México: Era, 1991).
Glotzer, Albert. Trotsky: Memoir & Critique (Buffalo: Prometheus, 1989).
Grant, Ted. The Unbroken Thread (London: Fortress, 1989).
Hallas, Duncan. Trotsky's Marxism (London: Pluto, 1979).
Hansen, Joseph. Leon Trotsky: The Man & His Work. Reminiscences & Appraisals (NY: Merit, 1969).
Hobson, Christopher Z. & Ronald D. Tabor. Trotskyism & the Dilemma of Socialism (NY: Greenwood, 1988).
Hodgson, Geoff. Trotskyism & Fatalistic Marxism (Nottingham: Spokesman, 1975).
Howe, Irving. Leon Trotsky (NY: Viking, 1978).
Iglesias, Ignacio. Leon Trotsky y España, 1930-1939 (Madrid: Jucar, 1979).
James, C.L.R. World Revolution, 1917-1936: The Rise & Fall of the Communist International (NY: Pioneer, 1937).
Kemp, Tom. Trotskyism, the Marxism of Today (London: New Park, 1983).
Knei-Paz, Baruch. The Social & Political Thought of Leon Trotsky (Oxford: Clarendon, 1978).
Krasso, Nicolas. Trotsky: The Great Debate Renewed (St. Louis MO: New Critics, 1972).
Lerski, George J.. Origins of Trotskyism in Ceylon. A Documentary History of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party, 1935-1942 (Stanford: Stanford U., 1968).
Levine, Isaac Don. The Mind of an Assassin (NY: Farrar, Strauss & Cudahy, 1959).
Lovell, David W. Trotsky's Analysis of Soviet Bureaucratization (London: Croom Helm, 1985).
Lustig, Michael M. Trotsky & Djilas: Critics of Communist Bureaucracy (NY: Greenwood, 1989).
Mahoney, Harry Thayer & Marjorie Locke Mahoney. The Saga of Leon Trotsky: His Clandestine Operations & His Assassination (San Francisco: Austin & Winfield, 1998).
Mandel, Ernest. Trotsky, a Study in the Dynamic of His Thought (London: NLB, 1979).
__________. Trotsky as Alternative (NY: Verso, 1995).
Mavrakis, Kostas. On Trotskyism: Problems of Theory & History (Boston: Routledge & Paul, 1976).
McLemee, Scott & Paul Le Blanc (eds.) C.L.R. James & Revolutionary Marxism: Selected Writings of C.L.R. James, 1939-1949 (Atlantic Highlands NJ: Humanities, 1994).
Molyneaux, John. Leon Trotsky's Theory of Revolution (NY: St. Martin's, 1981).
Mosley, Nicholas. The Assassination of Trotsky (London: Joseph, 1972).
Nedava, Joseph. Trotsky & the Jews (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1972).
Nelson, Harold W. Leon Trotsky & the Art of Insurrection, 1905-1917 (Totowa NJ: Frank Cass, 1988).
Panstov, Alexander. The Bolsheviks & the Chinese Revolution, 1919-1927 (Richmond: Curzon, 2000).
Payne, Robert. The Life & Death of Trotsky (NY: McGraw-Hill, 1977).
Pomper, Philip. Lenin, Trotsky & Stalin: The Intelligentsia & Power (NY: Columbia, 1990).
Richardson, Al (ed.) Blows Against the Empire: Trotskyism in Ceylon. The Lanka Sama Samaja Party, 1935-1964 (London: Porcupine, 1997).
Sánchez Salazar, Leandro A. with Julian Gorkin. Murder in Mexico: The Assassination of Leon Trotsky [1950] (Westport CT: Hyperion, 1973).
Segal, Ronald. Leon Trotsky: A Biography (NY: Pantheon, 1979).
Serge, Victor & Natalia Sedova Trotsky. The Life & Death of Leon Trotsky (London: Wildwood, 1975).
__________. The Serge-Trotsky Papers (ed. D.J. Cotterill; Boulder: Pluto, 1994).
Shipley, Peter. The Militant Tendency: Trotskism in the Labour Party (Richmond, Surrey: Foreign Affairs 1983).
Thatcher, Ian D. Leon Trotsky & World War I: August 1914-February 1917 (NY: St. Martin's, 2000).
Ticktin, Hillel & Michael Cox (eds.) The Ideas of Leon Trotsky (London: Porcupine, 1995).
Trotsky, Leon. My Life: An Attempt at Autobiography (NY: Scribner's, 1930).
__________. A History of the Russian Revolution (NY: Simon & Schuster, 1932).
__________. Fascism: What it Is, How to Fight It: A Compliation (NY: Pathfinder, 1944).
__________. Diary in Exile, 1935 (Cambridge: Harvard, 1958).
__________. The Age of Permanent Revolution: A Trotsky Anthology (NY, 1964).
__________. The Transitional Program for Socialist Revolution (NY: Pathfinder, 1973).
__________. Collected Writings & Speeches on Britain (eds. R. Chapell & A. Clinton, 3 vols.; London: New Park, 1974).
__________. The Balkan Wars, 1912-1913: War Correspondence (NY: Pathfinder, 1980).
Ubierna, Antonio. ¿Qué es el trotsquismo? (Barcelona: La Gaya, 1976).
Van Heijenoort, Jean. With Trotsky in Exile: From Prinkipo to Coyoacan (Cambridge MA: Harvard, 1978).
Vargas Arze, Amadeo. El trotskismo en Bolivia (Cochabamba: ILAM, 1995).
Vereeken, Georges. The GPU in the Trotskyist Movement (London: New Park, 1976).
Volkogonov, Dmitrii Antonovich. Trotsky: The Eternal Revolutionary (NY: Free Press, 1996).
Warth, Robert D. Leon Trotsky (Boston: Twayne, 1977).
Wicks, Harry. Keeping My Head: Memoirs of a British Bolshevik (London: Socialist Platform, 1992).
Wilson, Edmund. To the Finland Station: A Study in the Writing & Acting of History (NY: Harcourt, Brace, 1940).
Wistrich, Robert S. Trotsky: Fate of a Revolutionary (NY: Stein & Day, 1982).
Wohlforth, Tim. The Prophet's Children: Travels on the American Truth (Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities, 2003)
Wolfe, Bertram David. Three Who Made a Revolution: A Biographical History [1948] (4th rev. ed.; NY: Dial, 1964).
Wolfenstein, E. Victor. The Revolutionary Personality: Lenin, Trotsky, Gandhi (Princeton: Princeton U, 1967).
Wyndham, Francis & David King. Trotsky: A Documentary (NY: Praeger, 1972).
In the Library: Fiction
Delahunt, Meaghan. In the Blue House (London: Bloomsbury, 2001).
Lourie, Richard. The Autobiography of Joseph Stalin: A Novel (Washington: Counterpoint, 1999).
In the Library: For Young Readers
Rius. El diablo se llama Trotsky (México: Grijalbo, 1981). Comic book introduction.
In the Library: Poetry
In the Library: Drama
Weiss, Peter. Trotsky in Exile: A Play (NY: Atheneum, 1972).
In the Library: Photography
King, David. Trotsky: A Photographic Biography (NY: Blackwell, 1986).
CD & Audio
Film & Video
"The Assassination of Trotsky" [1972], dir. Joseph Losey, 102m. In video stores.
"The Truth About Communism" [1985], dir. ?, 30m.
"Zina" [1985], dir. Ken McMullen, 90m.