| Summary: | The History of the Russian Revolution by Leon Trotsky reissued here after long being out of print remains on of the most important books of the century - a classic of history, and a literary masterpiece. "Our book," Trotsky writes, "teaches not how to love a victorious revolution in the person of the bureaucracy it has brought forward, but only how the revolution is prepared, how it develops, and how it conquers." Now, forty years after the event, this books assumes a new meaning in the light of recent developments within the Soviet orbit
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