David North
In defense of Leon Trotsky
The dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 saw the emergence of what the ICFI described as “The Post-Soviet School of Historical Falsification.” Its principal objective has been to discredit Leon Trotsky as a significant historical figure, to deny that Trotsky represented an alternative to Stalinism, or that his political legacy contains anything relevant in the present and valuable for the future.
In this book, David North defends Trotsky’s legacy against the campaign of historical falsification begun by Stalin and continuing to this day.
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Purchase from Mehring Books- Introduction
- Introduction to the second English edition
- Preface to the 2018 Russian edition
- Preface to the 2019 Turkish edition
- Toward a Reconsideration of Trotsky’s Place in the History of the 20th Century
- Leon Trotsky, Soviet Historiography & the Fate of Classical Marxism
- The Post-Soviet School of Historical Falsification: A Review of Two Biographies of Leon Trotsky by Professors Geoffrey Swain and Ian Thatcher
- The “Big Lie” Continues—A Review of Trotsky: A Biography by Robert Service
- Political Biography & the Historical Lie: An Examination of Professor Robert Service’s Biography of Trotsky
- Trotsky’s Enduring Significance
- The Biographer as Character Assassin
- Assessing Leon Trotsky Seventy Years After his Assassination
- Seventy Years Since the Assassination of Leon Trotsky
- Leon Trotsky and the Defense of Historical Truth
- In Defense of Leon Trotsky
- Review by Bertrand M. Patenaude in The American Historical Review
- Letter from Historians to German Publisher Suhrkamp on Robert Service’s Biography of Trotsky