Included in this work:
- A defence of the right to revolution, made in 1906 from the prisoner’s dock of the tsar’s court.
- A 1915 manifesto calling for international workers’ solidarity against World War One.
- Speeches as a leader of the workers’ and peasants’ government that came to power in Russia in the Bolshevik revolution of October 1917.
- “I stake my life” – Trotsky’s defiant 1937 challenge to the organizers of Joseph Stalin’s frame-up trials, which were aimed at erasing the final living link to Lenin’s leadership.
