{"id":222,"date":"2025-11-19T12:09:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T12:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialistworld.net\/shop\/index.php\/product\/the-last-enigma\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T11:57:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T11:57:20","slug":"the-last-enigma","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/socialistworld.net\/shop\/product\/the-last-enigma","title":{"rendered":"Leon Trotsky &#8211; A Revolutionary Whose Ideas Couldn&#8217;t be Killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Authors:<\/strong> Tony Saunois, Judy Beishon, TU Senan, Hannah Sell, Niall Mulholland, Philip Stott, Sascha Stani\u010di\u0107, Clare Doyle, Peter Taaffe, Robert Bechert<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong> 2020 (2024 reprint)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pages:<\/strong> 192<\/p>\n<p><strong>Format:<\/strong> Softcover<\/p>\n<p>This new collection of in-depth articles examines the key ideas of a great socialist revolutionary on the eightieth anniversary of his assassination by an agent of Joseph Stalin. The articles were written by leading members of the Committee for a Workers International, which links together revolutionary socialists around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Trotsky was an inspiring revolutionary Marxist thinker and heroic fighter against capitalism, fascism and Stalinism. Along with Lenin, Trotsky was a pivotal figure in the 1917 Russian Revolution, and leader of the victorious Red Army in the struggle against tsarist and imperialist counter-revolution. Trotsky went on to play a central role in the first years of the young workers\u2019 state in Russia, and in the Communist (Third) International before its Stalinist degeneration.<\/p>\n<p>This book examines Trotsky\u2019s role in the October 1917 Russian Revolution; his theory of \u2018permanent revolution\u2019; views on the revolutionary party; Stalinism; the national question; fascism; trade unions; and the Marxist \u2018Transitional Programme\u2019. 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