History of the Russian Revolution Trotsky LeonPaperback

"During the first two months of 1917 Russia was still a Romanov monarchy. They were little known to anybody when the year began, and their leaders were still under indictment for state treason when they came to power. Eight months later the Bolsheviks stood at the helm.

It is clear that the events of 1917, whatever you think of them, deserve study."-Leon Trotsky, from History of the Russian Revolution Regarded by many as among the most powerful works of history ever written, this book offers an unparalleled account of one of the most pivotal and hotly debated events in world history. You will not find another such sharp turn in history especially if you remember that it involves a nation of 150 million people. This book reveals, from the perspective of one of its central actors, the Russian Revolution's profoundly democratic, emancipatory character.

Originally published in three parts, Trotsky's masterpiece is collected here in a single volume. It serves as the most vital and inspiring record of the Russian Revolution to date. "[T]he greatest history of an event that I know."-C. L. R.

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