Trotsky on Lenin

“a fascinating source, full of insight and a perceptive portrait of Lenin’s single-mindedness and his relentless, all-consuming drive towards revolution in Russia.”
Helen Rappaport, The Guardian
Praise for Trotsky’s History of the Russian Revolution
“[T]he greatest history of an event that I know.”
C. L. R. James
“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
“Leon Trotsky (1879 1940) was a key leader of the Russian Revolution. Forced into exile in 1928, Trotsky devoted the rest of his life to fighting the degeneration of the revolution and rise of a new dictatorial regime. Vilified and isolated, he fought an uncompromising battle with the Stalinist bureaucracy, defending the revolutionary and internationalist principles upon which the revolution was based. In 1940, he was murdered by an agent of the Stalinist regime.”