The infamous Leon Trotsky published many books in his lifetime. This book has been out of print for many decades, and we saw fit to resurrect it in our time. It was written in 1920, when Trotsky was waging both literal war against White Russian forces, and metaphorical wars of polemic against other leftists and socialists, including the German Socialist Leader Karl Kautsky. This book is a direct rejoinder and attack on a book written by Karl Kautsky, who criticized the extreme violence and terrorism employed by the Bolsheviks after they took power in the October Revolution in 1917.

In it, he lays out the necessity of violence, i.e. terrorism, to make a revolution succeed. He uses the example of the French Commune to make his point in several chapters, and gives justifications for why extreme measures were necessary in Russia.

This book will surely be of interest to anyone who studies Marxist and Soviet history, as well as anyone who wants to arm themselves against leftist extremism today.

This is a new edition of the public domain book originally published in 1921.
This new edition includes:

• New Foreword written by the Publisher.

• Many new footnotes added by the Publisher.

• New layout, formatting, and typesetting.

Bulkington Book's mission is to build a bridge into the past, before film, television, copyright, and internet swallowed up the world. We found this story worthy of revival, and we hope you find it worth your while.

Our Substack Post, including the Foreword, can be read here: https://bulkingtonbooks.substack.com/p/foreword-to-trotskys-defence-of-terorrism

the original text can be found here on google books:
https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Defence_of_Terrorism_Terrorism_and_C/xJBWJpnR-mMC