Leon Trotsky : a bibliography 2nd expanded edition

1378 Pages·1972·46.888 MB·English

by  Louis Sinclair

TROTSKY: A BIBLIOGRAPHY
First published 1989 by
SCOLAR PRESS
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Copyright © Louis Sinclair 1989
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Trotsky: A Bibliography
Volume 1
Louis Sinclair
SCOLAR PRESS
First published 1989 by
SCOLAR PRESS
GOWER PUBLISHING COMPANY LIMITED
Gower House, Croft Road, Aldershot GU11 3HR
Gower Publishing Company,
Old Post Road, Brookfield, Vermont 05036,
USA
Copyright © Louis Sinclair 1989
Printed and bound in Great Britain at
The Camelot Press Ltd, Southampton
Contents
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Introduction
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Notes
Abbreviations X
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Catalogues
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Special Collections
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Locations XVll
Pseudonyms XlX
PARTI
1
Text
1191
Appendix
PART II
Consolidated Book List 1199
Periodicals: Consolidated List 1315
Bulletins List 1331
Secondary Sources: Consolidated List 1339
Prospekt Sobrania Sochinenii L.D. Trotskogo
Sochinenii
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Introduction
Discoveries and developments since 1970 have complet~ly altered estimates
of how much of Leon Trotsky's writings have been published. In the years to
1979 it was possible to list hundreds more ti~l~s - book~, pamp~ets ~nd
articles in serials - unrecorded till then. The additions consisted of first-time
translations and publications as weH as reprints 1?ade .i n h_is life~ime and
after, and they included items published for the first time in an increased
number of languages. . .
A feature of the seventies deserving mention was the undertaking in
different countries of planned editions of very wi~e s~ope, so~ething not
attempted since the non-completion of the publication of his Collected
Writings, in Russian, in the Soviet Union for political reasons. The m~st
comprehensive of these ventures, and which stimulated others by its
example, was that of Pathfinder Press in the USA and its associates, under
the guidance of George Breitman. It spanned the years 1924 to 1940, that is
from the opening of struggles of the Left Opposition against Stalinism, in
the Soviet Union and in the Comintern, until Trotsky's assassination, two
years to the month after the founding of the Fourth International for which
he had striven intensively in the last years of his life. The translated volumes
were divided: one part set out in chronological order, the other, avoiding
duplication, grouped according to subject-matter.
Up to this point in time the records confined themselves to published
items. January 1980 introduced a new element to the situation. It was then
that the closed section of the Trotsky archives in the Houghton Library at
Harvard University (also known as his Exile Papers) were made available to
the public. Reporting only what concerns the present project, examination
showed that the papers, numbered in their thousands, were almost entirely
letters addressed to political associates, to members of his family, and to
others. Only an insignificant number of these were already in print.
But the totally unexpected took place soon after. The Hoover Institution
at Stanford and the Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis in
Amsterdam, almost simultaneously let it be known that they each held
quantities of the papers that had been (parts of) the archives of Leon Sedov,
elder son of Leon Trotsky, together with incomplete files of the International
Secretariat of the Fourth International of which Sedov had been a key
member until his death in 1938. In their combined resources were hundreds
of hither~o unknown letters and pieces by Trotsky.
The . aim of the present project is to combine the published and
unpublished T~ots½y writings in a comprehensive bibliography. This has
meant also taking into account holdings in smaller, but no less valuable,
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collections and, on the suggestion of scholars, giving information on variant
drafts of documents to permit their better study.
Like the seventies, the eighties also have distinctive fe~tures._ There _has
been a considerable increase in the number of items published m Russian,
albeit outside the Soviet Union, through the work of the historian Yuri
Felshtinsky. Alongside the Russian are the translations made in mainland
China. The pieces are marked ndbu to signify that they were prepared for
specific academic institutions and not for sale to the general public. The
information given here about them is not always satisfactory.
The closing date for the project was set at December 1987. This allowed
for the inclusion of the complete set of Series I of the French edition of the
Oeuvres. Published by l'lnstitut Leon Trotsky (Professor Pierre Broue is its
Director), the Series has already begun to be supplemented. This will sustain
the first systematic and considerable presentation of material from Trotsky's
Exile Papers.
It would not have been possible to realize the project had it not been for
the cooperation of many others. I am once again deeply indebted to the
authorities who most generously allowed me to use freely their catalogues
and material. Old friends and new maintained a steady flow of evidence
without which much would have passed unnoticed. I have gratefully
consulted published and unpublished catalogues prepared by others. For his
generous encouragement and support I am indebted to Professor William V.
Wallace, Director of the Institute of Soviet and East European Studies. On
the technical side I have benefitted from the advice of David Weston of
Special Collections in Glasgow University Library. Thanks are also due to
Kay McWalter. As to the rest - for errors and omissions I plead the
common fault of humans.
Louis Sinclair
May 1988
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Notes
ARRANGEMENTS The entries in Part I are in chronological order.
Where two or more items have the same date, published items, without
priorities among themselves, precede the un~ublishe1. The latter are
organized in the sequence: Open (Harvard) Archives, Exile Papers, Hoover
Institution holdings, and other Collections. The catalogue numbers of the
first three are given in the editorial note; for Exile Papers EP has been
inserted by the editor.
INDEX NUMBER The date of writing (o r publication) of the item is
given in the sequence year, month, day, omitting the initial '19' of the year.
In this form, the date is the Index Number. The example is an illustration:
220501(1) Rech (A speech) ('Iz', (96), 3.V.22; 'Trud', (94), 3.V.22)
Repr : 230000(7)
Trans: 230000(7)
The speech was made on the first of May, 1922 and printed in the two
periodicals whose serial numbers and dates of issue are shown. It was
included in a collection. The collection was translated. Instead of day,
month, year read year, month, day. The other refinements become self
explanatory, by and large.
For printed books and pamphlets, the year of publication is used and
sometimes the date of an editorial preface or of printing. This was done to
achieve better distinction between editions.
Undated articles in serials are given the date of issue of the serial; see
[241020(2)] for an example.
'Delete' and 'Transfer to ... ' are corrections but the gaps they create are
not filled.
For the remaining notes it will be useful to stay with
300000(1) MOIA ZHIZN (MY LIFE)
TRA~SLITERAT ION In general, the system of the Library of
Congress is followed except where another has been adopted for some cited
case.
!RANSL~T ION ~11 titles written in Cyrillic script are given an
English translation except in the case of the word Prikaz, a military Order of
t~e day. No other langu_age~ are transl~ted. When the language is concerned
with the place of publication, American and English are treated as two
languages.
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REPRINT All reprints, whether from the same house or not, are
attached directly to the first edition of a book, each with its own index
number. All references to the book are made, in this instance, to 300000(1 )ff.
300000(1) MOIA ZHIZN (MY LIFE)
Repr: 300000(2); 770000(25)
Trans: Am 300000(19)ff; pq 630000(7)ff; pq 640800(1)ff;
All editions of the American translation are grouped at 300000(19).
Extracts (marked pq) are not.
EDITORIAL NOTES T 3264-9; N 312.29-313.15 give the locations
of original texts, the first in the Open (Harvard) Archives, the second in the
Nicolaevsky collection at the Hoover Institution.
BOOK LIST There is only one list of book titles. Transliteration may
cause some confusion. The details are given in standard fashion except that
the English spelling of a place name is used: Rome not Roma. Where names
have been changed - Ceylon became Sri Lanka - the contemporary designa
tion is retained.
SERIALS Titles are on a consolidated list. In the text they are given
in full or abbreviated: 'Trud' and 'Iz' in the example quoted above. In the list
the expanded form appears with the abridged: 'Pr' - 'Pravda'. 'KLO' is an
example of a bulletin. Titles are not translated.
There are no tables of contents and of serials just as there are none for
key books. Here, instead, after each title the years are shown in which the
pieces were completed or written.
'Corlnt' (17-8,21-8)
says that for the years 17,18,21 to 28 items will be found that were published
in 'Correspondance Internationale'.
This note is repeated in the introductory page to the Serials List.
The procedure is followed in the next area.
SECONDARY SOURCES These are books not written by him
which retrieve, partially quote or cite Trotsky. Morizet (21) is a case in
pomt.
PSEUDONYMS Trotsky's own pseudonyms are listed separately.
The identification of his addressees is made immediately:
To W.Held (ie H.Epe)
or in an editorial note should that be more convenient.
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