Publisher's Synopsis
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. "So much better than the unconvincing apologies of kings and statesmen which have been flooding the book market ever since 1918." -Book Review Digest "Patient readers will be rewarded by examples of Trotsky's extremely dry wit and insights." -Research Book News
