Leon Trotsky
Robert Service wins support from the extreme right in Germany
By Wolfgang Weber, February 7, 2012
The extreme right-wing weekly newspaper Junge Freiheit has weighed in on the debate over a German edition of Robert Service's biography of Leon Trotsky, wholeheartedly defending Service against the criticisms of fourteen historians and political scientists.
David North speaks in Berlin: “In Defence of Leon Trotsky and Historical Truth”
By our reporter, February 3, 2012
David North placed his exposure of Robert Service’s slanderous biography of Trotsky in a broader historical and political context.
A blow against the Post-Soviet School of Historical Falsification
By Wolfgang Weber, December 31, 2011
The letter of 14 historians to the Suhrkamp publishing house in Germany calling on it to abandon publication of Robert Service’s biography of Leon Trotsky has opened the door for an honest and thorough examination of the role of Trotsky and the rise and fall of Soviet power.
Leon Trotsky on Mexican painter Diego Rivera (1938)
December 21, 2011
In his June 1938 article, “Art and Politics in Our Epoch,” Leon Trotsky discussed the work of Mexican painter and muralist Diego Rivera, who was at that time in political sympathy with the Fourth International.
“Robert Service has written a diatribe, not a scientific polemic!”
A conversation with Professor Hermann Weber
November 28, 2011
Professor Hermann Weber spoke to the World Socialist Web Site on the reasons for his opposition to the publication by Suhrkamp Verlag of a German translation of Robert Service’s biography of Leon Trotsky.
European historians oppose publication by Suhrkamp of Robert Service’s Trotsky biography
By Wolfgang Weber, November 23, 2011
Fourteen prominent historians, political scientists and publicists from Germany and Austria have sent a letter to the German publishing house Suhrkamp opposing the publication of Robert Service’s biography of Trotsky. The letter cites “a host of factual errors,” the “repugnant connotations” of the
Letter from historians to German publisher Suhrkamp on Robert Service’s biography of Trotsky
November 23, 2011
Below is the text of a letter sent in July by noted European historians to the German publishing house Suhrkamp opposing its planned publication of Robert Service’s biography of Leon Trotsky.
From the archives
The story of Mark Zborowski: Stalin’s spy in the Fourth International
By International Committee of the Fourth International, November 17, 2011
We are republishing a statement of the International Committee of the Fourth International originally published on June 15, 1990 in the Fourth International magazine on the death of Mark Zborowski. Zborowski, a GPU spy against the Trotskyist movement, was responsible for the murder of leading cadre of the F
“A book that fails to meet the basic standards of historical scholarship”
The American Historical Review discredits Robert Service’s biography of Leon Trotsky
By The Political Committee Socialist Equality Party (US), June 28, 2011
The American Historical Review has published a critical examination of two books: the denunciatory biography Trotsky by British historian Robert Service and In Defense of Leon Trotsky by David North, the chairman of both the Socialist Equality Party in the United States and the international editorial board
One hundred years since the death of the great Russian novelist
Trotsky’s 1908 tribute to Leo Tolstoy
By Leon Trotsky, December 2, 2010
Leon Trotsky wrote this tribute to the great Russian novelist on the occasion of Tolstoy’s eightieth birthday.
Leon Trotsky’s Analysis of the Emerging Global Role of US Capitalism
By Nick Beams, November 24, 2010
The WSWS organized a panel on “The Cultural, Economic and Geo-strategic Thought of Leon Trotsky: A Retrospective Analysis 70 years after His Assassination,” at the 42nd annual convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies (formerly the American Association for the Advanceme
Assessing Leon Trotsky seventy years after his assassination
Report given at the annual convention of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies
By David North, November 23, 2010
Report given at the annual convention of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, November 21 2010.
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