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Trotsky’s role in consolidating the first Workers’ State in the world was not confined to the Red Army. “Show me another man”, he (Lenin) said, thumping the table “capable of organising in a year an almost exemplary army and moreover of winning the esteem of the military specialists.” These lines reproduced in Gorky’s memoirs accurately show the attitude of Lenin to Trotsky at this time. Trotsky remained Commissar for War until 1925. During the bloody Civil War when Soviet Russia was invaded by 21 foreign armies of intervention, and when the survival of the Revolution was in the balance, Trotsky organised the Red Army and personally led the fight against the counterrevolutionary White armies, travelling thousands of kilometres in the famous armoured train. In 1917, he played a leading role as the organiser of the insurrection in Petrograd.Īfter the October Revolution Trotsky was the first Commissar for Foreign Affairs and was in charge of the negotiations with the Germans at Brest Litovsk. He was the author of the Zimmerwald Manifesto which attempted to unite the revolutionary opponents of the War. During the First World War, Trotsky adopted a consistent internationalist position. Sentenced once again to Siberian exile, he again escaped and continued his revolutionary activity from exile. In the first Russian Revolution of 1905, he was the chairman of the Petersburg Soviet. And what a life! From his earliest youth, when he worked through the night producing illegal strike leaflets which earned him his first spell in prison and Siberian exile, until he was finally struck down by one of Stalin’s agents in August 1940, he toiled ceaselessly for the revolutionary movement.
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His whole life was entirely devoted to the cause of the working class and international socialism. Lev Davidovich Trotsky was, alongside Lenin, one of the two greatest Marxists of the twentieth century. We share it today in memory of a revolutionary titan whose work and sacrifices preserved the authentic traditions of Marxism and Bolshevism for future generations. This article by Alan Woods, commemorating Trotsky, was originally published in the year 2000. 20 August marks the anniversary of the assassination attempt on Leon Trotsky, which led to his death the following day.