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New edition of Trotsky's autobiography, ‘My Life’ – intro by Alan Woods

Wellred Books proudly presents the new edition of Leon Trotsky’s My Life. Since this book was first published, it has been regarded as a unique political and literary document. Written in the first year of Trotsky’s exile in Turkey, it contains the earliest authoritative account of the rise of Stalinism and the expulsion of the Left Opposition, who heroically fought for the ideas and traditions of Lenin.

The narrative traces Trotsky’s life from his early childhood, his education in the ‘universities’ of various Tsarist prisons, Siberia and then his foreign exile – to his involvement in the European revolutionary movement, his central role in the tempestuous 1905 Revolution, the Bolshevik victory in October 1917 and the Civil War that followed. Trotsky’s work concludes with his heroic struggle against Stalinism and his eventual exile and deportation from the Soviet Union.

The book contains a preface by Esteban Volkov and an introduction by Alan Woods. We present here Woods’ introduction, but the full book can be purchased from Wellred Books for just £16.99 plus postage.

You can also read an online version of the book here.

Introduction by Alan Woods

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CHAPTER XX
IN POWER

Leon Trotsky

My Life

In the life of the country and in the life of the individual, I those were extraordinary days. In social passions, as well as in personal powers, tension reached its highest point. The masses were creating an epoch, and their leaders felt their steps merging with those of history. On the decisions made and the orders given in those days depended the fate of the nation for an entire historical era. And yet those decisions were made with very little discussion. I can hardly say that they were even properly weighed and considered; they were almost improvised on the moment. But they were none the worse for that. The pressure of events was so terrific, and the work to be done so clear before us, that the most important decisions came naturally, as a matter of course, and were received in the same spirit. The path had been predetermined; all that was required was to indicate the work. No arguments were necessary, and very few appeals. Without hesitation or doubt, the masses picked up what was suggested to them by the nature of the situation. Under the strain of events, their “leaders” did no more than formulate what answered the requirements of the people and the demands of history.