Autobiographical account by a leader of the October 1917 Russian revolution, the Soviet Red Army, and the battle initiated by Lenin against the Stalinist bureaucracy.
“One of the best books of reminiscences.… [Trotsky's] capacity for not measuring the historical process by the yardstick of his personal fate … makes this book so much better than the unconvincing apologias of kings and statesmen.… [The] author is obviously a born writer.”—The Nation
Introduction by Joseph Hansen, Chronology of events and writings, 1929-1940, index. |
