History of the Russian Revolution - Hardcover

Trotskii, L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0575012293 ISBN 13: 9780575012295

Publisher: Littlehampton Book Services Ltd, 1965

Synopsis

The History of the Russian Revolution in one volume

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Review

The greatest history of an event that I know.
C. L. R. James
"Justly celebrated as a towering, vivid, historically vital work.
China Mieville, October
The History is his crowning work, both in scale and power and as the fullest expression of his ideas on revolution. As an account of a revolution, given by one of its chief actors, it stands unique in world literature.
Isaac Deutscher
I would routinely smuggle copies of Trotsky s History of the Russian Revolution into the USSRso our colleagues could know a little about their own political beginnings.
Carl Sagan
"
-The greatest history of an event that I know.-
--C. L. R. James
-Justly celebrated as a towering, vivid, historically vital work.-
--China Mieville, October
-The History is his crowning work, both in scale and power and as the fullest expression of his ideas on revolution. As an account of a revolution, given by one of its chief actors, it stands unique in world literature.-
--Isaac Deutscher
-I would routinely smuggle copies of Trotsky's History of the Russian Revolution into the USSR--so our colleagues could know a little about their own political beginnings.-
--Carl Sagan
"The greatest history of an event that I know."
--C. L. R. James

"Justly celebrated as a towering, vivid, historically vital work."
--China Mieville, October

"The History is his crowning work, both in scale and power and as the fullest expression of his ideas on revolution. As an account of a revolution, given by one of its chief actors, it stands unique in world literature."
--Isaac Deutscher

"I would routinely smuggle copies of Trotsky's History of the Russian Revolution into the USSR--so our colleagues could know a little about their own political beginnings."
--Carl Sagan

"This passionate, partisan and beautifully written account by a major participant in the revolution, written during his exile on the isle of Prinkipo in Turkey, remains one of the best accounts of 1917. No counter-revolutionary, conservative or liberal, has been able to compete with this telling."

--Tariq Ali

About the Author

Leon Trotsky (Author)
Leon Trotsky (1879 - 1940) was a Ukrainian-born Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist theorist who became one of the leaders of the Russian October Revolution, second only to Lenin. He was expelled from the Communist Party and deported from the Soviet Union in the 1920s, and eventually assassinated in Mexico by a Stalinist agent in 1940.

Max Eastman (Translator)
Max Eastman (1883-1969) was an American writer, editor and prominent radical. In 1922, he travelled to Russia to study the Soviet regime and witnessed the power struggles between Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin. On his return to the United States, he wrote prolifically about socialism and Stalinist Russia. His many books include Since Lenin Died (1925), Marx, Lenin and the Science of Revolution (1926), The End of Socialism in Russia (1937) and Stalin's Russia and the Crisis in Socialism (1939).

Edition details

• Publisher: Littlehampton Book Services Ltd
• Publication date: 1965
• ISBN 10: 0575012293
• ISBN 13: 9780575012295
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 1296