That volume compiles the same texts under the title La mujer y la familia (Women and the family), but with translations from Russian that had been made by Andreu Nin 4 Andreu Nin (1892–1937) was a teacher, trade unionist, and revolutionary Catalan politician and founder of the Workers’ Party of Marxist Unification (POUM). In 1974, volume 20 of The Works of Leon Trotsky appeared in Spanish in Mexico, published by Juan Pablos Editor. 3 From when the Moscow trials began, which through false accusations culminated in the exile and execution of important Bolshevik leaders. “ Family Relations under the Soviets ” from 1932, which are the answers to 14 questions posed by the American weekly Liberty and “Thermidor in the Family,” which is a section of chapter 7 of his 1936 book The Revolution Betrayed. In 1928, he was exiled to Alma-Ata and in 1929 expelled from the Soviet Union, to which he would no longer be allowed to return. the edition includes “From the Old Family to the New,” a chapter from his 1923 book Problems of Everyday Life a 1923 “Letter to a Moscow Women Worker’s Celebration and Rally” “The Protection of Motherhood and the Struggle for Culture” and “To Build Socialism Means to Emancipate Women and Protect Mothers” from 1925, both addresses to the Third All-Union Conference on the Protection of Mothers and Children held that year in Moscow 2 That same year, Trotsky was removed from all public political functions after his defeat in the partisan debate against bureaucratization. With an introduction by Caroline Lund, 1 Caroline Lund (1944–2006) was a leader of the Young Socialist Alliance and later of the Socialist Workers Party in the United States. The first such compilation, Women and the Family, appeared in 1973, published by Monad Press (a subsidiary of Pathfinder Press).

Why, then, over more than five decades, have so many editions appeared that compile his speeches, short articles, or chapters of his other works in which he addresses the woman question? Leon Trotsky did not dedicate a specific work to a historical analysis of patriarchal oppression.

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