My Life: An Attempt at an Autobiography Book

Preface to this Edition     i
Foreword     xiii
Yanovka     1
Our Neighbors and My First School     27
Odessa: My Family and My School     41
Books and Early Conflicts     59
Country and Town     78
The Break     93
My First Revolutionary Organization     103
My First Prisons     114
My First Exile     124
My First Escape     134
An Emigre for the First Time     142
The Party Congress and the Split     150
The Return to Russia     165
The Year 1905     175
Trial, Exile, Escape     187
My Second Foreign Exile: German Socialism     202
Preparing for a New Revolution     220
The Beginning of the War     233
Paris, and Zimmerwald     243
My Expulsion from France     252
Through Spain     258
New York     270
In a Concentration Camp     279
In Petrograd     286
Concerning Slanderers     298
From July to October     311
The Deciding Night     321
"Trotskyism" in 1917     329
In Power     334
In Moscow     348
Negotiations at Brest-Litovsk     362
Peace     379
A Month at Sviyazhsk     395
The Train     411
The Defense of Petrograd     423
The Military Opposition     436
Disagreements over War Strategy     451
The Transition to the New Economic Policy, and My Relations with Lenin     461
Lenin's Illness     470
The Conspiracy of the Epigones     489
Lenin's Death and the Shift of Power     502
The Last Period of Struggle within the Party     518
The Exile     539
The Deportation     558
The Planet without a Visa     567
Index     585