Download or read book Terrorism and Communism written by Leon Trotsky and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in the white heat of revolutionary Russia's Civil War, Trotsky's Terrorism and Communism is one of the most potent defenses of revolutionary dictatorship. In his provocative commentary to this new edition the philosopher Slavoj Zizek argues that Trotsky's attack on the illusions of liberal democracy has a vital relevance today.