During the early years of the Communist International, from 1919 through 1922, its course was recorded in reports and resolutions shaped above all by its central founding leader, V.I. Lenin, as well as by Leon Trotsky. This two-volume collection contains speeches and writings by Trotsky on the struggle for working class power in the imperialist epoch, the worker-peasant alliance, the fight for national liberation, defense of the Soviet republic, and much more.Preface by author, explanatory notes, index.