TEHRAN (IBNA) -- Leon Trotsky’s book ‘Fascism: What It Is and How to Fight It’ which describes the ‎origin and nature of Fascism has been rendered into Persian and released.‎
The book has been translated into Persian by Mohammad Radmanesh, Talaye Porsou Publishing in Tehran has published ‘Fascism: What It Is and How to Fight It’ in 72 pages and 500 copies.
Writing in the heat of struggle against the rise of fascism in Germany, France, and Spain in the 1930s, communist leader Leon Trotsky examines the class origins and character of fascist movements. Building on foundations laid by the Communist International in Lenin’s time, Trotsky advances a working-class strategy to combat and defeat this malignant danger.
Chapters on: Fascism: What Is It? - How Mussolini Triumphed- The Fascist Danger Looms in Germany- An Aesop Fable- The German Police and Army- Bourgeoisie, Petty Bourgeoisie, and Proletariat- The Collapse of Bourgeois Democracy- Does the Petty Bourgeoisie Fear Revolution?- The Workers’ Militia and Its Opponents-- The Perspective in the United States- Build the Revolutionary Party.
Leon Trotsky was born Lev Davidovich Bronshteyn on November 7, 1879 in Yanovka, Ukraine. As a teenager, he became involved in underground activities and was soon arrested, jailed and exiled to Siberia where he joined the Social Democratic Party. He escaped from exile in Siberia by using the name of a jailer called Trotsky on a false passport. During World War I, he lived in Switzerland, France, England, and New York City, where he edited the newspaper Novy Mir (New World).
In 1917, after the overthrow of Tsar Nicholas II, he went back to Russia and joined Vladimir Lenin in the first, abortive, July Revolution of the Bolsheviks. A key organizer of the successful October Revolution, he was People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs in the Lenin regime. He was then made war commissar and in this capacity, built up the Red Army which prevailed against the White Russian forces in the civil war.
Antagonism developed between him and Joseph Stalin during the Civil War of 1918-1920. When Lenin fell ill and died, Stalin became the new leader and Trotsky was thrown out of the party in 1927. Trotsky fled across Siberia to Norway, France, and finally settled in Mexico in 1936. He began working on the biography of Stalin. He was able to complete 7 of the 12 chapters before an assassin, acting on Stalin’s orders, stabbed Trotsky with an ice pick. He died on August 21, 1940.