a fascinating source, full of insight and a perceptive portrait of Lenin's single-mindedness and his relentless, all-consuming drive towards revolution in Russia. Helen Rappaport, The Guardian Praise for Trotsky's History of the Russian Revolution [T]he greatest history of an event that I know. C. L. R. James In Trotsky all passions were aroused, but his thought remained calm and his vision clear.... His involvement in the struggle, far from blurring his sight, sharpens it.... The History is his crowning work, both in scale and power and as the fullest expression of his ideas on revolution. As an account of a revolution, given by one of its chief actors, it stands unique in world literature. Isaac Deutscher These neglected works by Trotsky deserve to be read alongside his more acknowledged classics. -Counterfire a fascinating source, full of insight and a perceptive portrait of Lenin's single-mindedness and his relentless, all-consuming drive towards revolution in Russia. -Helen Rappaport, The Guardian Praise for Trotsky's History of the Russian Revolution [T]he greatest history of an event that I know. -C. L. R. James In Trotsky all passions were aroused, but his thought remained calm and his vision clear.... His involvement in the struggle, far from blurring his sight, sharpens it.... The History is his crowning work, both in scale and power and as the fullest expression of his ideas on revolution. As an account of a revolution, given by one of its chief actors, it stands unique in world literature. -Isaac Deutscher