The major political questions of the 20th century, discussed by an outstanding communist leader. Includes a defence of the right to revolution, made in 1906 in the prisoner's dock of the tsarist courts; speeches as a leader of the revolutionary government following the Bolshevik-led revolution; and I Stake My Life, Trotsky's 1937 defence of his 20-year Bolshevik course and challenge to the organizers of Joseph Stalin's frame-up trials.