How the Revolution Armed: Military Writings and Speeches of Leon Trotsky: vol. 2, 1919

Long suppressed in the Soviet Union, and never before published in English, these are the writings and speeches of the leader of the Red Army during the years of civil war. This volume covers 1919, the hardest year of the fighting, when the young Soviet state faced White Guard and imperialist armies on a 6,000 mile front. Its climax is the battle to defend Red Petrograd itself. This five-volume series, one of the most important military works this century, forms an imperishable record of the struggles which followed the Russian Revolution.