The Writings of Leon Trotsky for the Year

1940

1940: Balance Sheet of the Finnish Events [26k]
1940: Letter to the Workers of the USSR
1940: We Do Not Change Our Course (Article – 12k)
1940: The May 24th Attempt to Assassinate Trotsky
1940: The Reptile Breed of The Nation
1940: China and the Russian Revolution [9k]
1940: Letter to the Herald Tribune
1940: Some Questions on American Problems (draft article – 31k)
1940: The Comintern and GPU [One of Trotsky’s last articles – 119k]
1940: The Kremlin’s Role in the War
1940: The Character of the Russian Revolution as Foreseen by Plekhanov, Lenin and Trotsky (54k, excerpt from Stalin)
1940: Trade Unions in the Epoch of Imperialist Decay [23k]
1940: The Second World War
1940: The Class, the Party and the Leadership (unfinished draft article)
1940: Trotsky’s Last Article: Bonapartism, Fascism and War (27k)

The Last Letters of Leon Trotsky:
1940: On Japan’s Plans for Expansion
1940: On A “Socialist” Ally of Chamberlain
1940: Manifesto of the Fourth International
1940: On Conscription
1940: Misfortune of an Intellectual
1940: Nipping A New GPU Lie
1940: To Generous Friends
1940: On A Petty Bourgeois Philistine
1940: How to Defend Ourselves
1940: How to Really Defend Democracy
1940: A Letter to C. Charles
1940: On Dewey’s Philosophy
1940: Another Thought on Conscription
1940: Welcome to “Our Small Garrison”
1940: Trotsky’ Last Three Letters

Some works published later
but written in or around 1940

1942: In Defense of Marxism (collection of articles, letters) [Click here for PDF version – 602k] Significant work!
1944: Fascism (pamphlet first published in 1944)


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