The following is a chronological list of books by Leon Trotsky, a Marxist theoretician, including hardcover and paperback books and pamphlets published during his life and posthumously during the years immediately following his assassination in the northern summer of 1940.
Included are the original Russian or German language titles and publication information, as well as the name and publication information of the first English language edition.
In the course of his life, Trotsky wrote about 30,000 documents, most of which are contained in various archives.
[1] According to his biographer Isaac Deutscher stated that Trotsky wrote most of the Soviet's manifestos and resolutions, edited its Izvestia newspaper.
[2] This material represents a small fraction of the myriad of articles published by Trotsky during his life and afterwards, with the complete 1989 bibliography by Louis Sinclair running to nearly 1,100 printed pages.
[3] Maxim Lieber was Trotsky's literary agent at the end of his life.
[4] Source (unless otherwise noted): Baruch Knei-Paz, The Social and Political Thought of Leon Trotsky.
601–605, checked to Louis Sinclair, Trotsky: A Bibliography.
Nashi Politicheskye Zadachi (Our Political Tasks).
Istoriia Soveta Rabochikh Deputatov v Gorode Sanktpeterburga (History of the Soviet of Workers' Deputies in the City of St. Petersburg).
Der Krieg und die Internatsionale (The War and the International).
Istoriia Oktiabrskoi Revoliutsii (History of the October Revolution).
Godi Velikogo Pereloma: Liudi Staroi i Novoi Epokh (Years of the Great Break: The People of the Old and New Epochs).
Terrorismus und Kommunismus: Anti-Kautsky (Terrorism and Communism: Against Kautsky).
Mezhdu Imperializmom i Revoiutsiei (Between Imperialism and Revolution).
Kommunisticheskoe Dvizhenie v Frantsii (The Communist Movement in France).
Kak Vooruzhalas' Revoliutsiia (How the Revolution Armed Itself).
K Sotsializmu ili k Kapitaliszmu: Analiz Sovetskogo Khoziaistva i Tendentsii Ego Razvitiia (Toward Socialism or Capitalism?
An Analysis of the Soviet Economy and Tendencies Toward Its Development) (Towards Socialism or Capitalism).
Istoriia Russkoi Revoliutsii (History of the Russian Revolution).
Nemetskaia Revoliutsiia i Stalinskaia Biurokratiia (The German Revolution and the Stalinist Bureaucracy).
Stalinskaia Shkola Falsifikatsii (The Stalinist School of Falsification).
The Case of Leon Trotsky: Report of Hearings on the Charges Made Against Him at the Moscow Trials: Verbatum Transcript of Trotsky's Testimony Before the Dewey Commission, Coyoacan, Mexico, April 10–17, 1937.
(John Dewey and Suzanne LaFollette et al., eds.).
The Living Thoughts of Karl Marx: Based on Capital: A Critique of Political Economy.
The Struggle Against Fascism in Germany based on Trotsky's writings of 1931–1940.
—Includes 53 articles not included in Problems of Chinese Revolution or Writings.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1976.
Trotsky's Notebooks, 1933-1935: Writings on Lenin, Dialectics, and Evolutionism.
Arkhiv Trotskogo: Iz Arkhivov revoliutsii, 1927-28.