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Generalities and publication history of
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In 1927 however, the Sochineniia publishing project was suspended when Trotsky was definitively defeated in the factional struggles of the CPSU and Comintern and eventually was expelled from the CPSU (1927), then banished to Alma Ata (1928) and eventually exiled to Turkey (1929). Thus, only those 12 volumes (tom) listed here (3 of them issued in two parts, thus summing up to a total of 15 volumes, organized in six Roman numbered series, altogether some 8.000 pages) were factually published.
Seriia I. Istoricheskoe podgotovlenie Oktiabria.
- Tom II. Nasha pervaia revoliutsiia. Chast’ ...
- 1. 1925. XII, 648 pp.
- 2. 1927. VIII, 447 pp.
- Tom III. 1917. Chast’ ...
- 1. Ot Fevralia do Oktiabria. [1924]. LXXII, 466 pp.
- 2. Ot Oktiabria do Bresta. [1924]. IX, 451 pp.
Seriia II. Pered istoricheskim rubezhom.
- Tom IV. Politicheskaia khronika. 1926. XII, 647 pp.
Tom VI. Balkany i balkanskaia voina. 1926. XXIV, 503 pp.
Tom VIII. Politicheskie siluety. 1926. VIII, 373 pp.
Seriia III. Voina.
- Tom IX. Evropa v voine. 1927. XII, 420 pp.
Seriia IV. Problemy mezhdunarodnoi proletarskoi revoliutsii.
- Tom XII. Osnovnye voprosy proletarskoi revoliutsii. [1925]. VI, 477 pp.
Tom XIII. Kommunisticheskii Internatsional. 1926. VII, 247 pp.
Seriia V. Na puti k sotsializmu.
- Tom XV. Khoziaistvennoe stroitel’stvo Sovetskoi respubliki. 1927. XV, 600 pp.
Tom XVII. Sovetskaia respublika i kapitalisticheskii mir. Chast’ ... - 1. Pervonachal’nyi period organizatsii sil. 1926. XV, 748 pp
- 2. Grazhdanskaia voina. 1926. XII, 662 pp.
Seriia VI. Problemy kul’tury.
- Tom XX. Kul’tura starogo mira. 1926. VIII, 579 pp.
Tom XXI. Kul’tura perekhodnogo perioda. 1927. XI, 520 pp.
Contents of the published volumes
For a complete reproduction [PDF files] of the tables of contents and title pages of the published volumes of Sochineniia click on the respective volume number:
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Volume II (issued in two parts) contains Trotsky's writings about the 1905 Russian revolution and the critical phase preceding it. Most of the articles assembled in this volume were originally written between 1904 and 1909 and were also published in Trotsky's collection titled 1905.
Volume III (issued in two parts) deals with the revolutionary events of the crucial year 1917. Most of the writings, speeches etc. are dating from 1917, showing Trotsky as an outstanding agitator, orator etc. When the first part of volume III went to press in autumn of 1924, Trotsky added his polemical essay 1917 - Uroki Oktiabria [1917 - The lessons of October], a vitriolic attack on his then inner-party opponents, as author's introduction; thus launching or provoking a crisis within the party leadership which eventually would end in the defeat of the Left Opposition and thus of Trotsky himself.
Volume IV chiefly consists of writings from 1901 to 1914 which were originally published in the Russian, European and émigré press, thematically focusing on Russian politics and events. It contains a considerable number of articles which Trotsky had contributed to Vostochnoe Obozrenie, Iskra and to the Vienna Pravda.
Volume VI is a compilation of Trotsky's articles on the Balkan wars (1908-1913), many of them originally appearing in Kievskaia Mysl' and Vienna Pravda.
Volume VIII mainly contains sketches of contemporary political figures originally published, among others, in Kievskaia Mysl', Nashe Slovo, and Nachalo between 1908 and 1925.
Volume IX chiefly consists of writings which also appeared in Trotsky's collection Voina i revoliutsiia (1923) and which were written between 1914 and 1917 on the subject of European diplomacy and politics and the First World War; many items originally appeared in Nashe Slovo (Paris) and Novyi mir (New York).
Volume XII assembles writings from the early 1920s about problems derived from the experiences of the Russian revolution of 1917 and its aftermath, among them Mezhdu imperializmom i revoliutsiei (1922), Novaia ekonomicheskaia politika sovetskoi Rossii i perspektivy mirovoi revoliutsii (1922) and last not least Trotsky's vitriolic polemic against Kautsky, Terrorizm i kommunizm (1920).
Volume XIII compiles Trotsky's writings, speeches, and reports about the attempts to build up a new, Communist International; this volume is almost identical with the collection Piat let Kominterna which has been translated, too.
Volume XV reflects Trotsky's evolving ideas concerning the economic reconstruction of the young soviet republic (1919-1920), among them his writings and speeches on the so-called militarization of labour and on economic planning. In this volume many items from Pravda and from other official party and government publications have been reproduced, while other items have been taken from originally confidential party documents.
Volume XVII consists of two parts; they chiefly contain writings, speeches and other documents written during the years of the civil war (1918-1921) when Trotsky was creator and chief of the Red Army. An almost identical compilation is Trotsky's Kak vooruzhalas revoliutsiia [How the revolution armed].
Volume XX assembles writings from 1901-1902 and from 1908-1914 about literary, aesthetic and cultural subjects; most of these writings are represented, too, in Trotsky's famous collection Literatura i revoliutsiia (1924).
Volume XXI contains items on questions of literary criticism, culture, science and education written during 1923 and 1925.
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Availability of Sochineniia
As a matter of fact, Trotsky's Sochineniia must be regarded as extremely rare; there is only a very limited number of libraries that hold a complete set of the original volumes published in the USSR between 1924 and 1927, while a few other libraries are in possession of some scattered volumes only. Some libraries, however, are in possession at least of a reprint edition (no longer available) which was produced by Bell & Howell (Cleveland, Ohio) in 1963.
People interested in acquiring a complete set of Sochineniia in microfilm format (3 reels) may order them from Datamics Inc. Micropublishers (5136 Macarthur Blvd., #40523, Washington, DC 20016); this set is still available (as at 2004), for $ 225.00.
Volumes VI and XVII,2 are available in microfiche format (as at 2004) from Eastview Information Services Inc. (3020 Harbor Lane N, Minneapolis, MN 55447, E-mail: eastview@eastview.com) for $ 50.00 and $ 70.00, respectively.
Master films of Sochineniia are stored by Stanford University Library (Stanford, Cal.) and by Library of Congress (Washington, DC).
A digitalized version of the complete Sochineniia can be found at
http://www.magister.msk.ru/library/trotsky/trotsky.htm (listed by the respective volume titles such as for example Evropa v voine)
Useful links with regard to digitalized works of Trotsky in Russian language can also be found at the site of Iskra Research
Rev. April 2005
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