The Revolution Betrayed by Leon Trotsky
Author: Leon Trotsky, translated by Max Eastman
Publisher: Doubleday, Dorian & Company, Inc. 1937
Hardcover
Page Count: 308
It is provocations like this that got Trotsky assassinated. Living in Mexico after fleeing Stalin’s police in the USSR, he refused to ‘retire’ into a quiet expat’s life. Instead, he wrote and wrote and wrote. His 3-volume history of the Russian Revolution in 1933 was bad enough, but in 1937 he published this work, whose title alone must have caused apoplexy in Stalin. The killing squads were activated and in 1940 they completed their task.
The audience for this work of real-time political analysis was those sympathetic to the Russian Revolution, not its enemies. Trotsky hoped until the end for a tidal wave of dissent against Stalinism. Yet it is perversely funny that elements of it were first published in The American Mercury, a journal of letters begun by H. L. Mencken and enjoying real influence in the late 1930s. How Trotsky must have cringed at his being trumpeted in the bourgeois capitalist press!
Very good condition, though without a dustjacket. All aspects of the covers are in good condition. The pages are crisp and cleanly cut and unfaded. The printing is strong. A former owner has crimped his bookplate onto the title page.
Author: Leon Trotsky, translated by Max Eastman
Publisher: Doubleday, Dorian & Company, Inc. 1937
Hardcover
Page Count: 308
It is provocations like this that got Trotsky assassinated. Living in Mexico after fleeing Stalin’s police in the USSR, he refused to ‘retire’ into a quiet expat’s life. Instead, he wrote and wrote and wrote. His 3-volume history of the Russian Revolution in 1933 was bad enough, but in 1937 he published this work, whose title alone must have caused apoplexy in Stalin. The killing squads were activated and in 1940 they completed their task.
The audience for this work of real-time political analysis was those sympathetic to the Russian Revolution, not its enemies. Trotsky hoped until the end for a tidal wave of dissent against Stalinism. Yet it is perversely funny that elements of it were first published in The American Mercury, a journal of letters begun by H. L. Mencken and enjoying real influence in the late 1930s. How Trotsky must have cringed at his being trumpeted in the bourgeois capitalist press!
Very good condition, though without a dustjacket. All aspects of the covers are in good condition. The pages are crisp and cleanly cut and unfaded. The printing is strong. A former owner has crimped his bookplate onto the title page.
Author: Leon Trotsky, translated by Max Eastman
Publisher: Doubleday, Dorian & Company, Inc. 1937
Hardcover
Page Count: 308
It is provocations like this that got Trotsky assassinated. Living in Mexico after fleeing Stalin’s police in the USSR, he refused to ‘retire’ into a quiet expat’s life. Instead, he wrote and wrote and wrote. His 3-volume history of the Russian Revolution in 1933 was bad enough, but in 1937 he published this work, whose title alone must have caused apoplexy in Stalin. The killing squads were activated and in 1940 they completed their task.
The audience for this work of real-time political analysis was those sympathetic to the Russian Revolution, not its enemies. Trotsky hoped until the end for a tidal wave of dissent against Stalinism. Yet it is perversely funny that elements of it were first published in The American Mercury, a journal of letters begun by H. L. Mencken and enjoying real influence in the late 1930s. How Trotsky must have cringed at his being trumpeted in the bourgeois capitalist press!
Very good condition, though without a dustjacket. All aspects of the covers are in good condition. The pages are crisp and cleanly cut and unfaded. The printing is strong. A former owner has crimped his bookplate onto the title page.