Leon Trotsky and World War One

World War I was one of the most important events of the twentieth century. It was also a crucial period in Leon Trotsky''s political biography. This work is the first comprehensive examination of Trotsky''s writings of 1914-1917 and the context in which they were produced. Its findings challenge Trotsky''s autobiography and the standard account by Isaac Deutscher. Trotsky''s war-time journalism is...