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October 26 1879 august 21, 1940, born lev davidovich bronstein, was a jewish bolshevik revolutionary and marxist theorist. These page numbers were maintained during the transcription process to remain faithful to the. Russian revolution, the consecutiveness of its stages, the inexorable. The first edition of the novel was published in 1937, and was written by leon trotsky. Leon trotsky was a significant figure in marxist theory and politics and a crucial figure in the russian revolution. Leon trotsky, also spelled trotskii, was originally lev davidovich bronshtein. Leon trotsky was born lev davidovich bronstein near elisavetgrad later kirovograd. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 1040 pages and is available in paperback format.
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Dec 21, 2016 trotskys magisterial history of the russian revolution was published in 1930 when trotsky had been forced in exile. This book is by a figure who was central to the cataclysmic events of october 1917, written from within the movement. Russia industrialized much later than western europe and the united states. Trotsky s history of the russian revolution is a long, very complex, and extremely detailed treatment of the remarkably eventful period from february to october of 1917. As stalin rose in the soviet union, trotsky was removed from power, expelled from the communist party, deported from the soviet union, and assassinated on stalins orders. Thus between april 1917 and january 1, 1918, the peasant soviet in petrograd sent 1,395 agitators into the villages with special mandates. Leon trotskys place in history world socialist web site. Trotsky s opposition to stalin and his policies was one of the most important of all opposing factions in the soviet union after the russian revolution of october 1917.
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