The definitive account of the Russian Revolution by Leon Trotsky, its leader and key historian. Published to coincide with the 90th anniversary of the 1917 Russian Revolution, this edition of Trotsky's masterpiece, with a new foreword by Ahmed Shawki, tells the epic story of the remarkable events which transformed Russian and world history forever. Leon Trotsky was a leader of the 1917 Russian Revolution and author of My Life and The Revolution Betrayed. Ahmed Shawki is editor of International Socialist Review and author of Black Liberation and Socialism.

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Utgivningsdatum:2008-07-01
Mått:152 x 228 x 38 mm
Vikt:1 051 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:1 040
Upplaga:100
Förlag:Haymarket Books
ISBN:9781931859455

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Leon Trotsky was a leader of the Russian revolution in 1917 and is the author of My Life, The History of the Russian Revolution, and The Revolution Betrayed. Ahmed Shawki is the editor of the International Socialist Review.

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The greatest history of an event that I know.”C. L. R. James"Justly celebrated as a towering, vivid, historically vital work.”China Miéville, OctoberThe 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 DeutscherI 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"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