Trotsky on Lenin

Combining Young Lenin and On Lenin in one volume, this is a fascinating political biography by fellow revolutionary Leon Trotsky.

About the author

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.

Summary

Combining Young Lenin and On Lenin in one volume, this is a fascinating political biography by fellow revolutionary Leon Trotsky.

Foreword

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.

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"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

Product details

• Authors: Leon Trotsky
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.01.2018
• EAN: 9781608467914
• ISBN: 978-1-60846-791-4
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 228 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 610 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Russia, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Social Activists, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Revolutionary groups & movements, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Biography: historical, political and military, Marxism & Communism, Revolutionary groups and movements, Trotsky;Russian Revolution;October Revolution;Lenin;Stalin, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Soviet, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions