The Revolution Betrayed The Revolution Betrayed The Revolution Betrayed: What Is the Soviet Union and Where Is It Going? () is a book published in 1937 by the exiled Soviet Bolshevik leader Leon Trotsky. This work analyzed and criticized the course of historical development in the Soviet Union following the death of Lenin in 1924 and is regarded as Trotsky's primary work dealing with the nature of Stalinism. The book was written by Trotsky during his exile in Norway and was originally translated into French by Victor Serge. The most widely available English translation is by Max Eastman. Lev Davidovich Bronstein (1879–1940), best
A Tomb for Boris Davidovich a noted revolutionary, is arrested with the intent to extract a confession from him in a show-trial. During his interrogation Novsky duels with his interrogator Fedukin over how he will be remembered in the future, fighting over the conclusion to his biography. Set up as a parallel to "Boris Davidovich", the story deals with Baruch David Neumann, a Jew forced to convert to Christianity during a pogrom. Darmolatov, a minor revolutionary poet, is ruined by disease rather than terror. A Tomb for Boris Davidovich A Tomb for Boris Davidovich (Serbo-Croatian: "Grobnica za Borisa Davidoviča / Гробница за Бориса Давидовича") is