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1920—year of the war with Poland. In the early months, the Red Army’s victories against the White Guards won a breathing-space in which it turned to assist in the reconstruction of the war-torn economy. The first Labour Armies were formed under Trotsky’s direction. Then came the Polish offensive. The Soviet Republic replied by swelling the ranks of the Red Army to five million and launching the contentious march on Warsaw. Beaten back outside the Polish capital, the Soviet forces nonetheless regained lost territories’ enabled the Bolsheviks to conclude a peace, and proceeded in the South to sweep the counter-revolutionary Wrangel into the sea. The third in a five-volume series, this book is part of an imperishable record of the struggle to defend the Soviet state in the years following the Russian Revolution. Long suppressed in the Soviet Union, these writings and speeches of the leader of the Red Army are here published in English for the first time. |
Written: 1920
First Published: 1924 as Book Two of Volume II
of Kak Vooruzhala Revolyutsiya by the Supreme Council for Military
Publications, Moscow
Source: Materials and Documents on the History
of the Red Army, The Military Writings and Speeches of Leon Trotsky How
the Revolution Armed, Volume III: The Year 1920, New Park
Publications, London, permission for publication on the Trotsky Internet
Archive given by holders of the copyright, Index Books, London.
Translated (and edited) and Annotated: Brian
Pearce
Orignal Footnotes (Endnotes): The original
explanatory footnotes and other appendices were compiled by S.I. Ventsov.
All contemporary references by the translator, Brian Pearce. All footnotes
and endotes are combined herein. Notes by Leon Trotsky are indicated
thusly: “—L. Trotsky”)
Transcription/HTML Markup: David Walters
Online Version: Leon
Trotsky Internet Archive, 2002
