Soon after the Bolshevik victory in the Russian Revolution, Leon Trotsky
led the Red Army against the counter-revolutionary White armies. Written
in the white heat of the Civil War, "Terrorism and Communism" is one of
the most potent defences of revolutionary dictatorship of the twentieth
century. In his provocative commentary in this new edition, the
coruscating critic Slavoj Zizek argues that Trotsky's attack on the
illusions of democracy has a vital relevance to today.