Leon Trotsky Speaks

Preface Part One: Preparing the Revolution 1. On Trial for Insurrection 2. Zimmerwald Manifesto Against the War 3. The February Revolution and its Results On the Eve of Revolution Two Faces - Internal Forces of the Russian Revolution The Growing Conflict War or Peace? 4. All Power to the Soviets 5. President of the Petrograd Soviet Acceptance Speech Answer to Skobelev To the Soviets of the Northern Region 6. Organizing the Insurrection In Answer to a Rumor Three Resolutions Brother Cossacks! Message to the Garrison Report to the Extraordinary Session The Overthrow of the Provisional Government To the Army Committees and Soldiers' Soviets Walkout of the Mensheviks and Social Revolutionaries On the Arrest of Socialist Ministers The Organization of Power Part Two: Defending the Revolution 7. Commissar of Foreign Affairs For Peace - Against Secret Diplomacy! Appeal to the Toiling, Oppressed, and Exhausted Peoples of Europe 8. A Word to the Russian Workers and Peasants on Our Friends and Enemies, and How to Preserve and Strengthen the Soviet Republic 9. Civil War Lenin Wounded Recruiting the Red Army Strike the Enemy, Spare the Prisoner! 10. Tasks of the Twelfth Congress of the Russian Communist Party 11. For the Internationalist Perspective On the Road to the European Revolution Prospects and Tasks in the East 12. The War Danger - The Defense Policy and the Opposition Part Three: Preparing Anew 13. Open Letter to the Workers of the USSR 14. Interview from Prinkipo 15. In Defense of the Russian Revolution 16. Farewell to Prinkipo 17. I Stake My Life! 18. The Founding of the Fourth International 19. On the Eve of World War II 20. Testament Notes Index