Kunal Chattopadhyay Editor

Leon Trotsky was one of the most prominent leaders of the Russian Revolution in 1917. He was one of the primary contenders for the leadership of the Bolshevik Party in 1922 after the death of Lenin. When Stalin took this post, Trotsky swiftly concluded that the Revolution had been undermined. He was expelled from the Communist Party in 1927 and subsequently went into exile in Mexico, where he was assassinated by Soviet agents in 1940. Kunal Chattopadhyay is Professor at the Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University. He is the author of The Marxism of Leon Trotsky (2006). Paul Le Blanc is a long-time activist and Professor of History at La Roche College, Pennsylvania. He is the author of many books, including Lenin and the Revolutionary Party, From Marx to Gramsci and The Living Flame: The Revolutionary Passion of Rosa Luxemburg. Paul le Blanc has been an auto worker, health care worker, social service worker and dish washer, before spending over 30 years as a Professor of History, the last 22 years at La Roche University. He has written extensively on the history of the labor and socialist movements of the United States and Europe, including a number of works on Lenin and others active in Russia’s revolutionary struggles. He is currently a member of the editorial board overseeing the publication of the complete works of Rosa Luxemburg (for which he helped to edit volumes 2 and 5).