To the Readers of Clave (January 1939)

Letter to leading SWP members (A GPU Stool Pigeon in Paris, January 1, 1939)

A Necessary Statement (January 4, 1939)

Letter to H. R. Knickerbocker (The Hearst Press Changes Its Mind, January 6, 1939)

Letter to Rose Karsner (The Plight of Our Refugee Comrades, January 9, 1939)

Letter to Walter Held (What the Youth Do to Our Principles, January 9, 1939)

The Source of the Problem (January 11, 1939)

Letter to Frida Rivera (January 12, 1939)

Deposition to the Court (January 15, 1939)

Clave's Statement on Rivera's Resignation (January 17, 1939)

Suggestions for a Reply from the Pan-American Committee and the IS (January 1939)

Letter to Charles Curtiss (January 18, 1939)

Letter to Enrique Espinoza (A Proposed Biography, January 21, 1939)

Clave and the Election Campaign (January 1939)

Jouhaux and Toledano (January 30, 1939)

Stalin, Skoblin, and Company (January 30, 1939)

For Grynszpan: Against Fascist Pogrom Gangs and Stalinist Scoundrels (January 30, 1939)

The Tragedy of Spain (January 30, 1939)

Clarity or Confusion? (or: Ignorance Is Not a Revolutionary Instrument, January 30, 1939)

Intellectual Ex-Radicals and World Reaction (January 30, 1939)

Letter to a Friend in France (February 14, 1939)

Letter to Charles Curtiss (February 14, 1939)

Letter to the POI Central Committee (February 14,1939)

Letter to Albert Glotzer (A Trap in Palestine, February 14, 1939)

Letter to Charles Curtiss (February 15, 1939)

Letter to Rose Karsner (Money-Raising Appeals, February 20, 1939)

Spain, Stalin and Yezhov (March 4, 1939)

Once again on the causes of the defeat in Spain (March 4, 1939)

Krupskaya’s Death (March 4, 1939)

The Betrayers of India (March 4, 1939)

What Lies Behind Stalin Bid for Agreement with Hitler? (March 6, 1939, different version, excerpt)

Letter to Modern Quarterly (March 6, 1939)

A Step Toward Social Patriotism (March 7, 1939, different version)

Once Again on the Crisis of Marxism (March 7, 1939)

‘Learn to Work in the Stalinist Manner’ (March 7, 1939)

Letter to Joseph Hansen (Utilize the Opportunities in the Communist Party, March 8, 1939)

From a Letter to Daniel Guerin (March 10, 1939)

Centrism and the Fourth International (March 10, 1939)

Why I Agreed to Appear Before the Dies Committee (excerpt, March 11, 1939)

Stalin's Capitulation (March 11, 1939)

On Mexico's Second Six Year Plan (March 14, 1939)

*A Proposal from Shanghai (March 18, 1939)

Forecasts (March 18, 1939)

Only Labor Can Stop War (or Only Revolution Can End War, interview, March 18, 1939)

Our Work in the Communist Party (March 20, 1939)

Letter to the Pan-American Committee (March 22, 1939)

Stalin’s Capitulation (March 24, 1939)

Their Friend Miaja (March 24, 1939)

The "Kidnaping" of Trotsky's Grandson (March 26, 1939)

Letter to James P. Cannon (March 27, 1939)

Letter to C. L. R. James (James's Trip to Mexico, March 29, 1939)

Letter to Jan Frankel (Diego Rivera's Defection, March 31, 1939)

Against the Stream (April 1939)

On the History of the Left Opposition (April 1939)

Marxism in Our Time (April 1939)

From Mysteries of Imperialism (April 4, 1939)

Self-Determination for the American Negroes (First of a series of discussions with C.L.R. James and other leaders of the US Socialist Workers Party, April 4, 1939)

A Negro Organization Second of a series of discussions with C.L.R. James and other leaders of the US Socialist Workers Party, April 5, 1939)

Statement of the Pan-American Committee (April 5, 1939)

Letter to James P. Cannon (April 8, 1939)

Letter to Gerard Rosenthal (April 10, 1939)

Letter to James P. Cannon (More on Our Work in the Communist Party, April 10, 1939)

Trotsky Greets Tresca on 40th Year as Fighter (April 10, 1939)

Plans for the Negro Organization Third and last of a series of discussions with C.L.R. James and other leaders of the US Socialist Workers Party, April 11, 1939)

Letter to Jan Frankel (Diego Rivera's Defection, April 12, 1939)

Letter to the Political Committee of the SWP (April 18, 1939)

Letter to Jan Frankel (Diego Rivera's Defection, April 20, 1939)

Letter to the Political Committee of the SWP (April 22, 1939)

Problem of the Ukraine (as published in Socialist Appeal) (April 22, 1939)

Letter to Emrys Hughes (April 22, 1939)

From a Discussion with C.L.R. James (April 1939)

From a Discussion with C.L.R. James (April 1939)

On Laborde and Trotskyists in General (April 28, 1939)

The Bonapartist Philosophy of the State (May 1, 1939)

Letter to James P. Cannon (Where Munis Should Go, May 1, 1939)

Letter to Jan Frankel (Pan-American Committee Personnel, May 1, 1939)

Letter to Victor Serge (Victor Serge's Crisis, May 6, 1939)

Letter to the POI Central Committee (May 9,1939)

Letter to Jan Frankel (Another Anonymous Letter, May 10, 1939)

Letter to James P. Cannon (Problems of the Socialist Appeal, May 27, 1939)

Letter to Rose Karsner (A Visa for Elsa Reiss, June 5, 1939)

A Graphic History of Bolshevism (June 7, 1939)

Moralists and Sycophants Against Marxism (June 9, 1939)

Ten Years (June 10, 1939)

Soviet Plutarchs (June 10, 1939)

Toward a Balance Sheet of the Purges (June 10, 1939)

1917-1939 (June 10, 1939)

Letter to James P. Cannon (For a Courageous Reorientation, June 16, 1939)

The Riddle of the USSR (June 21, 1939)

Letter to James P. Cannon (A Party Census, June 23, 1939)

The Kremlin in World Politics (July 1, 1939)

“Trotskyism” and the PSOP (July 15, 1939)

Letter to the POI Central Committee (July 19,1939)

On the Eve of World War II (July 23, 1939, extract)

Open Letter to the Workers of India (India Faced with Imperialist War, July 25, 1939, different version)

Letter to James P. Cannon (Our International Organization, July 26, 1939)

Letter to the International Secretariat (July 27, 1939)

“Progressive Paralysis” – The Second International on the Eve of the New War (July 29, 1939)

Independence of the Ukraine and Sectarian Muddleheads (July 30, 1939)

Three Conceptions of the Russian Revolution (August 1939)

Letter to Margarete Ruthe (August 2, 1939)

Democratic Feudalists and the Independence of the Ukraine (August 5, 1939)

A Great New Writer (August 7, 1939)

Letter to T. Oleniuk (For the Ukrainian Pamphlet, September 1939)

Trotsky Writes on the War and the Soviet-Nazi Pact (or: Stalin— Hitler's Quartermaster, September 2, 1939)

Trotsky Statement to Press on Soviet-German Alliance (or: The German-Soviet Alliance, September 4, 1939)

Who Is Guilty of Starting the Second World War? (September 5, 1939)

The War and the Ukrainian Question (September 6, 1939)

Letter to Edward A. Ross (A Disagreeable Incident, September 7, 1939)

Why Is Russia Mobilizing? (September 11, 1939)

A Letter to James P. Cannon (September 12, 1939)

Trotsky Sees Closer Hitler-Stalin Ties (September 14, 1939)

Stalin – The Temporary Holder of the Ukraine (September 18, 1939)

Ignace Reiss – The Second Anniversary of His Death (September 21, 1939)

The USSR and the War (September 25, 1939)

Letter to Rose Karsner (The First Article in the Russian Discussion, September 28, 1939)

The U. S. Will Participate in the War (October 1, 1939)

Letter to Sherman Stanley (October 8, 1939)

Letter to the SWP (Accepting the Invitation of the Dies Committee, October 12, 1939)

Again and Once More Again on the Nature of the USSR (October 18, 1939)

The Referendum and Democratic Centralism (October 21, 1939)

A Letter to Sherman Stanley (October 22, 1939)

Exchange of Telegrams with the Editor of the Daily Herald (October 20-23, 1939)

Trotsky Tells British Paper He Will Not Write For It in Sharply Worded Statement (October 23, 1939)

On Workers' Self-Defense (October 25, 1939)

A Letter to James P. Cannon (October 28, 1939)

Letter to Max Shachtman (November 6, 1939)

Right of Revolutionary Optimism (November 11, 1939)

Outline of a Magazine Article (November 15, 1939)

Letter to the New York Times (November 20, 1939)

Letter to S. M. Perera (Letter to an Indian Comrade, November 24, 1939)

An Invitation from the Dies Committee (November 28, 1939)

Trotsky Gives N.Y. Times Writer a Few Pointers (December 1, 1939)

The Twin Stars: Hitler-Stalin (December 4, 1939)

On Lenin’s Program (December 6, 1939)

Letter to the New York Times (December 6, 1939)

The Dies Committee (December 7, 1939) 130
Trotsky Raps Press Lies on Dies Query (December 7, 1939)

‘Why I Consented to Appear Before the Dies Committee’ (December 11, 1939)

Statement on Dies Backing Down (December 12, 1939)

A Letter to James P. Cannon (December 15, 1939)

Petty-Bourgeois Opposition in the Socialist Workers Party (December 15, 1939, extract The ABC of Materialist Dialectics)

Not Behind Closed Doors (December 17, 1939)

A Letter to John G. Wright (December 19, 1939)

A Letter to Max Shachtman (December 20, 1939)

A False Report (December 26, 1939)

Letter to the National Committee Majority (December 26, 1939)

Letter to the National Committee Majority (December 27, 1939)

Fragments Written in 1939

Lenin [Submission to The Encyclopædia Britannica on the Encyclopædia’s entry for “Lenin”] (1939)