History of the Russian Revolution

Trotsky's living chronicle of 1917 — written in exile, defending the October insurrection as the deliberate work of the masses, not the accident of revolutionary romantics.

Trotsky's three-volume study remains the indispensable account of how a working class came to power for the first time in history. Written drawing on archival material and the testimony of participants, it is narrative, polemic, and historical materialism applied to the moment when world history bent.

• Russian Revolution
• Trotskyism
• History