Literature and Revolution
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"Roll over Derrida: Literature and Revolution is back in print. Nothing in the postmodern canon comes close to the intellectual grandeur of Trotsky's vision of art and literature in an age of revolution, or his extraordinary meditations on the popular ownership of culture."--Mike Davis
"Re-reading Trotsky on literature 40 years later is a delight."--Tariq Ali
Leon Trotsky penned this engaging book to elucidate the complex way in which art informs-- and can alter--our understanding of the world. Features new reader-friendly explanatory notes.
Leon Trotsky was a leader of the Russian Revolution in 1917 and is the author of My Life.
William Keach is a professor of English at Brown University. He is editor of Coleridge's Complete Poems.
Leon Trotsky
Leon Trotsky was a Marxist writer, theorist and leader. He organized the insurrection of the October Revolution in Russia in 1917 and then was the commander of the Red Army in the subsequent civil war. After Lenin's death, Trotsky led the Left Opposition against Stalin's bureaucratic counterrevolution, and was exiled in a series of countries before being assassinated in Mexico in 1940.
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