Excerpts in the ISR, Jacobin, and Socialist Worker.
Reviews in Historical Materialism, NLR, ISJ, ISR and range of
left-wing journals and magazines.
Along with Trotsky's classic History of the Russian Revolution,
Paul Le Blanc's Revolutionary Studies, and Nadezhda Krupskaya's
Reminiscences of Lenin, one of a number of books Haymarket is
publishing to coincide with the 100th Anniversary of the Russian
Revolution – a milestone which makes a high level of interest from
scholars and activists very likely.
Leon Trotsky (1879–1940) was a key leader of the Russian Revolution. Forced into exile in 1928, Trotsky devoted the rest of his life to fighting the degeneration of the revolution and rise of a new dictatorial regime. Vilified and isolated, he fought an uncompromising battle with the Stalinist bureaucracy, defending the revolutionary and internationalist principles upon which the revolution was based. In 1940, he was murdered by an agent of the Stalinist regime.
"a fascinating source, full of insight and a perceptive portrait of
Lenin's single-mindedness and his relentless, all-consuming drive
towards revolution in Russia."
Helen Rappaport, The Guardian
Praise for Trotsky's History of the Russian Revolution
"[T]he greatest history of an event that I know."
C. L. R. James
"In Trotsky all passions were aroused, but his thought remained
calm and his vision clear.... His involvement in the struggle, far
from blurring his sight, sharpens it.... 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
“These neglected works by Trotsky deserve to be read alongside his
more acknowledged classics.” –Counterfire
"a fascinating source, full of insight and a perceptive portrait of
Lenin's single-mindedness and his relentless, all-consuming drive
towards revolution in Russia."
—Helen Rappaport, The Guardian
Praise for Trotsky's History of the Russian Revolution
"[T]he greatest history of an event that I know."
—C. L. R. James
"In Trotsky all passions were aroused, but his thought remained
calm and his vision clear.... His involvement in the struggle, far
from blurring his sight, sharpens it.... 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
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