Written during the Russian Civil War and known as Terrorism and Communism, this is Trotsky’s answer to Karl Kautsky’s criticism of the Bolsheviks. He defends the dictatorship of the proletariat, revolutionary terror and the militarisation of labour, and reads the Paris Commune as a lesson in what hesitation costs.
An unapologetic statement of Bolshevik method, essential for historians of the revolution, with a preface by H. N. Brailsford. Download the free EPUB.