Jump to content

The Stalin School of Falsification

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Stalin School of Falsification
1932 title page
AuthorLeon Trotsky
LanguageRussian
Publication date
1932
OCLC749088834

The Stalin School of Falsification (Russian: Сталинская школа фальсификаций, romanizedStalinskaya shkola falsifikatsy) is a 1932 book by Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky. Written after Trotsky's expulsion from the Soviet Union, the book contains a detailed account of how historians chosen by Joseph Stalin rewrote revolutionary history.[1] A well-known example from the book concerns the revolutionary contributions by Trotsky himself about which Stalin had written glowingly in 1918, but whose special value he denied by 1924.[2][3]

Publication history

[edit]

The book was initially published in Russian at Berlin in 1932.[4] A translation in English by Max Shachtman was published in 1937 by Pioneer Publishers.[5] In 1974, New Park in London published another edition.[6]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ Dawsey, Jason (12 September 2018). "Trotsky's Struggle against Stalin". The National WWII Museum. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
  2. ^ North, David (2010). In Defense of Leon Trotsky. Mehring Books. pp. vii, 44. ISBN 9781893638051.
  3. ^ White, James D. (1985). "Early Soviet Historical Interpretations of the Russian Revolution 1918-24". Soviet Studies. 37 (3): 330–52. doi:10.1080/09668138508411589. JSTOR 151022.
  4. ^ Deutscher, Isaac (2003). The Prophet Outcast: Trotsky 1929-1940. Verso. p. 472. ISBN 978-1-85984-451-9.
  5. ^ "Leon Trotsky: The Stalin School of Falsification (1937)".
  6. ^ "Publications Received". The Slavonic and East European Review. 52 (128): 479–80. 1974. JSTOR 4206939.
[edit]