The Octavo · 1920 · restored 2025

In Defence of Terrorism

Leon Trotsky — Also published as 'Terrorism and Communism' and 'Dictatorship vs.

Also published as 'Terrorism and Communism' and 'Dictatorship vs. Democracy,' this is Trotsky's reply to Karl Kautsky's critique of Bolshevik methods. It is a frank, systematic justification of political terror by one of its chief practitioners. Read alongside Mr. Keeling's account of life under Bolshevik rule, it completes the picture: what the ideologue argued for, and what the ordinary man endured.

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Trotsky, Leon. In Defence of Terrorism (1920). Bulkington Books, 2025.