Communist Writers - Leon Trotsky, Tristan Tzara, Cesar Vallejo, Paul Eluard, Louis Aragon, N. D. Cocea, Kim Il-Sung, Gyorgy Lukacs, Wang Ming (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 100. Chapters: Leon Trotsky, Tristan Tzara, Cesar Vallejo, Paul Eluard, Louis Aragon, N. D. Cocea, Kim Il-sung, Gyorgy Lukacs, Wang Ming, Walter Lowenfels, Varavara Rao, Kaifi Azmi, Habib Jalib, Aime Cesaire, Thirunalloor Karunakaran, Rene Depestre, Roque Dalton, Luis Franco, Nordahl Grieg, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Jorge Amado, Cesare Pavese, Sadek Hadjeres, Armas Aikia, Subhash Mukhopadhyay, Dorothy Hewett, Bhisham Sahni, Edgell Rickword, Jose Gomes Ferreira, Johannes R. Becher, Boris Fraenkel, Yiannis Ritsos, Sajjad Zaheer, Kurt Held, Hosea Hudson, Marcelino dos Santos, K. Damodaran, Christopher Caudwell, Samar Sen, Jwalamukhi, Herman Gorter, K. N. Ezhuthachan, Pere Ardiaca, Jordi Arquer, P. T. Bhaskara Panicker, Graciliano Ramos, Israel Panner, Shikhali Gurbanov. Excerpt: Leon Trotsky (Russian pronunciation: 7 November 1879 - 21 August 1940), born Lev Davidovich Bronshtein, was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and theorist, Soviet politician, and the founder and first leader of the Red Army. Trotsky was initially a supporter of the Menshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. He joined the Bolsheviks immediately prior to the 1917 October Revolution, and eventually became a leader within the Party, second only to Vladimir Lenin. During the early days of the Soviet Union, he served first as People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs and later as the founder and commander of the Red Army, and People's Commissar of War. He was a major figure in the Bolshevik victory in the Russian Civil War (1918-20). He was also among the first members of the Politburo. After leading a failed struggle of the Left Opposition against the policies and rise of Joseph Stalin in the 1920s and the increasing role of bureaucracy in the Soviet Union, Trotsky was successively removed from power, expelled from the Communist Party, deported from the...