The History of the Russian Revolution - Softcover

Trotskii, L.; Trotsky, Leon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0904383415 ISBN 13: 9780904383416

Publisher: Pluto Press, 1997

Synopsis

Trotsky's opposition to Stalin and his policies was one of the most important of all opposing factions in the Soviet Union after the Russian Revolution of October 1917. This book is by a figure who was central to the cataclysmic events of October 1917, written from within the movement.

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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 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 was one of the most prominent leaders of the Russian Revolution in 1917. He was one of the primary contenders for the leadership of the Bolshevik Party in 1922 after the death of Lenin. When Stalin took this post, Trotsky swiftly concluded that the Revolution had been undermined. He was expelled from the Communist Party in 1927 and subsequently went into exile in Mexico, where he was assassinated by Soviet agents in 1940.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pluto Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0904383415
• ISBN 13: 9780904383416
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 1294