My Life Lenin China: 1925-27 & 1949

China: 1925-27 & 1949

a history of the subject from the standpoint of the world working class is essential

For the first time wives were empowered to divorce their husbands

But they were led by an uneasy and ill-fated coalition of bourgeois liberals

My Life Lenin China: 1925-27 & 1949Since My Life was first published it has been regarded as a unique political, literary, and human document. Written in the first year of Trotsky's exile in Turkey, it contains the earliest authoritative account of the rise of Stalinism and the expulsion of the Left Opposition, who heroically fought for the ideas and traditions of Lenin. Trotsky's narrative moves from his childhood to his education in the "universities" of Tsarist prisons, Siberia and