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Today's the first of a new series examining the legacy of Trotskyism through a parapolitical lens, and to kick it off, we examine the life of Leon Trotsky. I'm joined by Comrade Chad to discuss Trotsky's early life and career through the Bolshevik revolution. Particularly of note are the activities of Trotsky's uncles, his revolutionary activities in France, and his interesting residency in New York City. 

Premium Episode 53 Songs:

Lev Bronstein by the Redskins

If I Were a Rich Man - Fiddler on the Roof

Bring It Down by the Redskins

Reds Strike the Blues by the Redskins

Chad’s sources:

Books:

Leon Trotsky's Collaboration with Germany & Japan

New Evidence of Trotsky's Conspiracy

Trotsky's 'Amalgams'

- Grover Furr

Stalin: The History and Critique of a Black Legend

- Domenico Losurdo

Lenin Collected Works Volumes 18-25, 35-38

- Lenin

My Life

The Revolution Betrayed

Programme of Peace

1905

- Leon Trotsky

articles:

LEON TROTSKY'S ADVENTURE IN AMERICAN RADICAL POLITICS. 1935-7 Author(s): M. S. VENKATARAMANI Source: International Review of Social History , 1964, Vol. 9, No. 1 (1964), pp. 1-46 Published by: Cambridge University Press

Trotsky, War Communism, and the Origin of the NEP Author(s): Thomas Remington Source: Studies in Comparative Communism, Vol. 10, No. 1/2 (Spring/Summer 1977), pp. 44-67

Trotsky in Mexico: Toward a History of His Informal Contacts with the U.S. Government, 1937-1940 William Chase Published as “Trotskii v Mekcike. K istorii ero neglasnykh kontaktov s pravitel'stvom SShA (1937-1940)” ("Trotsky in Mexico: Toward a History of His Informal Contacts with the U.S. Government, 1937-1940"), Otechestvenna

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE IN THE USSR:

Jeffrey Burds The Soviet War against ‘Fifth Columnists’: The Case of Chechnya, 1942–4

THE GREAT TERROR: Polish-Japanese Connections Author(s): HIROAKI KUROMIYA and ANDRZEJ PEPŁOŃSKI Source: Cahiers du Monde russe , Octobre-décembre 2009, Vol. 50, No. 4 (Octobredécembre 2009), pp. 647-670

Trotskyism in Shanghai, 1929-1932: The Politics of Iconoclasm Author(s): Richard C. Kagan Source: Studies in Comparative Communism, Vol. 10, No. 1/2 (Spring/Summer 1977), pp. 87-108

Chen Duxiu and Leon Trotsky: New Light on Their Relationship Author(s): Peter Kuhfus Source: The China Quarterly , Jun., 1985, No. 102 (Jun., 1985), pp. 253-276

Jimmy’s sources:

cited specifically:

Wall Street and the Russian Revolution 1905 - 1925 by Richard Spence (particularly good)

Near and Distant Neighbors by Jonathan Haslam

An Impeccable Spy by Owen Matthews

the Arms of Krupp by William Manchester

Europe Central by William T. Vollmann

generally:

Grover Furr

Stalin: The History and Critique of a Black Legend by Domenico Losurdo

Stephen Kotkin's biographies of Stalin

Merch:

https://programmed-to-chill.myshopify.com/