Trotsky on Lenin
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: Jan 09, 2018
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9781608467914
Description: Combining Young Lenin and On Lenin in one volume, Trostsky on Lenin brings together two long-out-of-print works in a single volume for the first time, providing an intimate and illuminating portrait of the Bolshevik leader by another of the twentieth century's greatest revolutionaries. Written shortly after its subject's death, On Lenin covers the period of revolutionary struggle leading up to 1917 as well as the early years of Bolshevik power. We see a man totally committed to the revolutionary cause, whose legacy was later corrupted under the Soviet Union's Stalinist degeneration. Young Lenin, meanwhile, describes his early years and conversion to Marxism, dispelling many of the myths later created by Soviet hagiography in the process. These two works by Leon Trotsky are essential to understanding and tracing Lenin's evolution, his life, and his legacy.