Written early in the First World War and issued in America in 1918 with an introduction by Lincoln Steffens, this work examines the Balkan question, Austria-Hungary and the war against tsarism, then turns on the socialist parties that supported their governments, arguing that the collapse of the International opened a revolutionary epoch.
It helps explain the thinking Trotsky brought to the peace talks at Brest-Litovsk. Download the free EPUB.