IDOM 51 References Share TweetWhat is Trotskyism?[1] L Trotsky, ‘A Petty-Bourgeois Opposition in the Socialist Workers Party’, In Defence of Marxism, Wellred Books, 2019, pg 73[2] ibid. pg 70-71[3] L Trotsky, ‘Bonapartism and Fascism’, Democracy, Bonapartism and Fascism, Wellred Books, 2025, pg 148[4] J Stalin, Problems of Leninism, Foreign Languages Press, Peking, 1976, pgs 217[5] Resolution of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Germany, quoted in J Braunthal, Geschichte der Internationale: 1914–1943, Vol. 2, Dietz Verlag, 1963, pg 414, our translation[6] L Trotsky, Revolution Betrayed, Wellred Books, 2022, pg 183[7] P Miliukov, ‘The Elections to the Second State Duma’, quoted in L Trotsky, 1905, Penguin Books, 1971, pg 295[8] L Trotsky, The Stalin School of Falsification, Pathfinder, 1972, pg 17[9] L Trotsky, My Life, Wellred Books, 2018, pg 432[10] L Trotsky, ‘How Revolutionaries are Formed’, Writings of Leon Trotsky [1929], Pathfinder, 1975, pg 192[11] V I Lenin, ‘The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism’, Lenin Collected Works, Vol. 19, Progress Publishers, pg 21[12] L Trotsky, ‘Sectarianism, Centrism and the Fourth International’, Writings of Leon Trotsky [1935-36], Pathfinder, 1977, pg 153[13] L Trotsky, ‘The Transitional Programme’, Classics of Marxism, Vol. 1, Wellred Books, 2025, pg 269-270[14] ibid. pg 270[15] ibid. pg 224Trotsky, 1905 and the Permanent Revolution[1] L Trotsky, 1905, Penguin Books, 1973, pg 9[2] L Trotsky, My Life, Wellred Books, 2018, pg 80[3] Quoted in ibid.[4] ibid. pg 82[5] L Trotsky, My Life, Wellred Books, 2018, pg 110[6] ibid. pg 83[7] This is covered in depth in R Sewell & A Woods, ‘In Defence of Lenin’, Vol. 1, Wellred Books, 2024[8] L Trotsky, My Life, Wellred Books, 2018, pg 143[9] L Trotsky, ‘The Proletariat and the Revolution’, Our Revolution, Henry Holt and Company, 1918, pg 39[10] R B Day, D Gaido (ed., trans.), ‘Up to the Ninth of January’, Witnesses to Permanent Revolution: The Documentary Record, Haymarket Books, 2009, pg 324[11] ibid. pg 331[12] L Trotsky, O Gluschenko (trans.), ‘Political Letter II’, Iskra, No. 93, 17 March 1905, Marxist Internet Archive, our emphasis[13] R B Day, D Gaido (ed., trans.), ‘Up to the Ninth of January’, Witnesses to Permanent Revolution: The Documentary Record, Haymarket Books, 2009, pg 255[14] ibid. pg 267[15] V I Lenin, ‘Social-Democracy and the Provisional Revolutionary Government’, Collected Works, Vol. 8, Progress Publishers, 1977, pg 289[16] Quoted in I Deutscher, The Prophet Armed, Verso, 2004, pg 104[17] Quoted in I Deutscher, The Prophet Armed, Oxford University Press, 1945, pg 112[18] L Trotsky, The Permanent Revolution and Results and Prospects, Wellred Books, 2020, pg 66[19] L Trotsky, ‘Open Letter to Professor P.N. Miliukov’, Revolutionary Russia, Vol. 3, No. 2, 1990, pg 236[20] R B Day, D Gaido (ed., trans.), ‘Introduction to Ferdinand Lessalle’s Speech to the Jury’, Witnesses to Permanent Revolution: The Documentary Record, Haymarket Books, 2009, pg 455, our emphasis[21] V I Lenin, ‘Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution’, Collected Works, Vol. 9, Progress Publishers, 1977, pg 57[22] L Trotsky, 1905, Penguin Books, 1973, pg 210[23] L Trotsky, My Life, Wellred Books, 2018, pg 156[24] A Lunacharsky, Revolutionary Silhouettes, Hill and Wang, 1968, pg 60[25] L Trotsky, 1905, Penguin Books, 1973, pg 102[26] L Trotsky, My Life, Wellred Books, 2018, pg 159[27] L Trotsky, 1905, Penguin Books, 1973, pg 176[28] ibid. pg 153[29] L Trotsky, 1905, Penguin Books, 1973, pg 201[30] ibid. pg 8[31] K Marx, ‘Germany: Revolution and Counter-Revolution’, Selected Works of Karl Marx, Vol. 2, Progress Publishers, 1942, pg 46[32] L Trotsky, The Permanent Revolution and Results and Prospects, Wellred Books, 2020, pg 209[33] K Marx, F Engels, ‘Preface to the Second Russian Edition of the Manifesto of the Communist Party’, Collected Works, Vol. 24, Progress Publishers, 2010, pg 426[34] L Trotsky, 1905, Penguin Books, 1973, pg 56[35] ibid. pg 66[36] L Trotsky, The Permanent Revolution and Results and Prospects, Wellred Books, 2020, pg 262[37] ibid. pg 263[38] V I Lenin, ‘The Revolutionary-Democratic Dictatorship of the Proletariat and the Peasantry’, Collected Works, Vol. 8, Progress Publishers, 1977, pg 298[39] V I Lenin, ‘Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution’, Collected Works, Vol. 9, Progress Publishers, 1977, pg 87[40] L Trotsky, The Permanent Revolution and Results and Prospects, Wellred Books, 2020, pg 164[41] L Trotsky, ‘The Character of the Russian Revolution’, Fourth International, Vol. 3, No. 11, November 1942, pg 333The history of Chinese Trotskyism[1] 李大钊，“十月革命与中国人民”，November 7 1922，Wikisource，https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hans/%E5%8D%81%E6%9C%88%E9%9D%A9%E5%91%BD%E8%88%87%E4%B8%AD%E5%9C%8B%E4%BA%BA%E6%B0%91[2] B Archer (trans.), Second Congress of the Communist International. 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The Man Who Loved Dogs[1] Padura published a third volume of short stories in 2015, after this article was originally written.[2] H Bilbao, ‘“Si hubiera habido un asomo de Trotsky en Cuba, hubiera sido el Che”’, Clarín, 8 May 2013, our translation[3] L Padura, A Kushner (trans.), The Man Who Loved Dogs, Bitter Lemon Press, 2014, pg 156[4] ibid. pg 356[5] Sieva (Esteban) Volkov passed away on 17 June 2023 at the age of 97.[6] ibid. pg 530[7] ibid. pg 519[8] ibid. pg 520[9] ibid. pg 571[10] H Bilbao, ‘“Si hubiera habido un asomo de Trotsky en Cuba, hubiera sido el Che”’, Clarín, 8 May 2013, our translation[11] L Padura, A Kushner (trans.), The Man Who Loved Dogs, Bitter Lemon Press, 2014, pg 487[12] ibid.[13] M Frederiksen, J Foldager, ‘Interview med Padura’, Revolution, 13 October 2011, our translation[14] ibid.
