The Revolution Betrayed: What is the Soviet Union and Where is it Going?
First Edition of The Revolution Betrayed: What is the Soviet Union and Where is it Going?; Signed and dated by Leon Trotsky in the year of publication
The Revolution Betrayed: What is the Soviet Union and Where is it Going?
TROTSKY, Leon.
$5,000.00
Item Number: 147613
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1937.
First edition of Trotsky’s “major work on Stalinism” (Baruch Knei-Paz). Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by the author in the year of publication on the second front free endpaper, “Leon Trotsky 1 Apr 1937.” Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Translated by Max Eastman. Rare and desirable signed.
The Revolution Betrayed work analyzed and criticized the course of historical development in the Soviet Union following the death of Vladimir Lenin in 1924 and is regarded as Trotsky's primary work dealing with the nature of Stalinism. The book was written by Trotsky during his exile in Norway. The most widely available English translation is by Max Eastman.
