cover.jpg Soviet Russia in the years 1921-1923 saw the ending of the civil war fighting. As the Red Army moved on to a peace footing, its leader, Leon Trotsky, fought to prepare it for new tasks, in a period in which the destiny of the Russian Revolution was closely bound up with the development of the working class internationally. It was a time for study, for training and for drawing the lessons of the Army’s first years. In these years, Trotsky says, the history of the Red Army was in large part the history of the working class itself. The analysis he makes in this, the fourth of the five-volume series, is a major contribution to present-day knowledge of the Russian Revolution. Suppressed for decades in the Soviet Union, Trotsky’s military writings and speeches are here published in English for the first time.

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Written: 1921-23
First Published: First published in 1924 as Book One of Volume III of Kak Vooruzhalas Revolyutsya by the Supreme Council for Military Publications, Moscow
Source: Materials and Documents on the History of the Red Army, The Military Writings and Speeches of Leon Trotsky How the Revolution Armed, Volume IV: The Years 1921-23, New Park Publications, London, permission for publication on the Trotsky Internet Archive given by holders of the copyright, Index Books, London.
Translated (and edited) and Annotated: Brian Pearce for New Park Publications.
Orignal Footnotes (Endnotes): The original explanatory footnotes & endnotes and other appendices were compiled by S.I. Ventsov. All contemporary references by the translator, Brian Pearce. All footnotes and endotes are combined herein. Notes by Leon Trotsky are indicated thusly: “– L.T.”)
Transcription/HTML Markup: David Walters.
Online Version: Leon Trotsky Internet Archive, 2003.


Contents

Foreword

I. The Red Army on a Peace Footing

1. Speeches, Articles, Reports

Communication to the 8th Congress of Soviets on Reducing the Size of the Army, December 29, 1920

From a Speech at a General Meeting of Members of the Russian Communist Party in Zamoskvoretsk District, January 4, 1921

Speech at a Meeting of Military Workers in Yekaterinburg, on the Question of the Militia System, February 17, 1921

Attention to Trifles!

Concluding Speech at the Analysis of Manoeuvres at Kotyuzhanyk, September 12, 1921

Speech at the 2nd All-Russia Congress of Political Education Departments, October 20, 1921

The Tasks of the Red Army (Address to the commanders and political workers of the Moscow Military District in the Zimin Theatre), October 25, 1921

Speech at a Meeting of Cadets of the 1st Unified Military School Named after the All-Russia Central Executive Committee, November 2, 1921

Tula is Still the Great Smithy of the Red Army

The Tula Soviet’s Division

Not One Week, but Fifty-Two Weeks!

It is Necessary to Learn to Write!

Concluding Remarks at the 2nd Conference of Communist Party Cells in Higher Military-Education Institutions, December 10, 1921

Report to the Conference of Military-Education Institutions of the Moscow Military District, December 12, 1921

Alas, We are not Accurate Enough!

The Disabled of the Civil War

Conference of Military Delegates to the Congress of Soviets

Care for the Army

Thanks, Workers’ Moscow!

The Fifth Year – a Year for Study

Speech at the Parade on Red Square, February 23, 1922

Report to the 11th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), March 29, 1922

Speech at the All-Russia Conference of Navy Men, April 1, 1922

’Ty’ and ‘Vy’ in the Red Army

From a speech at the textile workers’ congress, October 10, 1922

Speech at the 5th All-Russia Congress of the Russian Young Communist League, October 16, 1922

Prospects and Tasks in Building the Army


2. Orders, Circulars, Telegrams, etc.

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic, August 5, 1921, No.254

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic, September 5, 1921, No.259

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic, September 5, 1921, No.260

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic, September 10, 1921, No.262

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic, September 11, 1921, No.263. More Care for the Disabled of the Civil War!

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic, September 12, 1921, No.264

The Case of Red Army Man Kozlov: Military Tribunal of the Kiev Military District, September 13, 1921

Order by the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic, October 11, 1921, No.2252. The Week of Care for the Red Army Man’s Kit

Letter to the Editorial Board of the Military-Scientific Journal of the 11th Petrograd Infantry Division

Order by the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic, November 1, 1921, No.2458

Order by the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic, February 28, 1922, No.515

A Contribution to the Question of Military Propaganda

The Military Academies and Non-Party People

Letter to a Red Army Man

Greetings to a Glorious Division!

Order by the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic, May 20, 1922, No.1247

Greetings to Commander-in-Chief S.S. Kamenev

Order by the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic, July 25, 1922, No.1764. To a Hero of the Pencil and the Paintbrush

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic, October 24, 1922, No.273. The Supplementary Call-up of the 1901 Class has been Completed!

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic, October 25, 1922, No.274. The Capture of Vladivostok

Telegram to the Revolutionary War Council of the Black Sea Fleet

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic, November 2, 1922, No.275

Order by the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic, December 21, 1922, No.2846

Order by the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic, December 22, 1922, No.2848

Order by the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic, January 6, 1923, No.59

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic, April 22, 1923, No.278

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic, April 22, 1923, No.279

Letter to the 2nd All-Russia Conference of Communist Navy Men

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs, May 26, 1923, No.280

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the USSR and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs, October 29, 1923, No.281

Order by the Revolutionary War Council of the USSR, December 8, 1923, No.2656


II. The Kronstadt Mutiny

The Mutiny of ex-General Kozlovsky and the Vessel Petropavlovsk (Government communiqué of March 2, 1921)

A Last Warning: To the Garrison and Inhabitants of Kronstadt and the Mutinous Forts

On the Events at Kronstadt (Interview given to representatives of the foreign press)

Kronstadt and the Stock-Exchange

Speech at the Parade in Honour of the Heroes of Kronstadt, April 3, 1921


III. Banditry and Famine

1. Speeches and Articles

The Famine and the World Situation (Speech at a meeting of the Moscow Soviet, August 30, 1921)

Greetings to Right-bank Ukraine!

Speech at the Meeting of Zhitomir Town Soviet, September 5, 1921

The Stock-Exchange Republic and Its Noulens

This Must Be Stopped

Speech at a Plenary Session of the Moscow Soviet, September 20, 1921


2. Orders

Order to Volhynia, Podolia and Odessa Provinces, September 5, 1921, No.257

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic, September 10, 1921, No.261

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic, September 13, 1921, No.265

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic, November 10, 1921, No.267. A Fresh Provocation by the Polish Military Clique

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic, December 11, 1921, No.268

Order by the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic, February 11, 1922, No.365. Fraternal Thanks!


IV. Military-Political Surveys

There are No Fronts, but There is Danger (Address to the 9th Congress of Soviets, December 26, 1921)

Springtime Machinations by Our Enemies (Speech at the ceremonial meeting of the Moscow Soviet on the anniversary of the February Revolution, March 12, 1922)


Maps


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