Leon Trotsky’s first book translated into English after the Bolshevik victory was written as ‘The War and the International’ in Zurich late in 1914. Printed first here in its entirety in English this was, by far, Trotsky’s most widely read work internationally of the Revolutionary period and was introduced by renowned muckraking journalist Lincoln Steffens. The Preface was reproduced in the last issue of International Socialist Review before it was shut down by the Postal Service in February, 1918 with this note: ‘Comrade Trotsky was preparing an article for the Review when the revolution came up in Russia, compelling him to drop everything and return. Review readers will appreciate our disappointment and later on our joy in reading the inspiring record our comrade has made during the past few months.’ Full online text here.

The Bolsheviki and World Peace by Leon Trotzky. Introduced by Lincoln Steffens, Boni and Liveright, New York. 1918.

Contents: Introduction, by Lincoln Steffens, Author’s Preface tot he American Edition (1918), The Balkan Question, Austria-Hungary, The War Against Czarism, The War Against the West, The War of Defence, What Have Socialists to do with Capitalist Wars?, The Collapse of the International, Socialist Opportunism, The Decline of the Revolutionary Spirit, Working Class Imperialism, The Revolutionary Epoch. 238 pages.

PDF of full book: https://hdl.handle.net/2027/loc.ark:/13960/t59c7mw6d