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
Lev Anninsky Lev Anninsky Lev Alexandrovich Anninsky (, born 7 April 1934, Rostov-on-Don, USSR) is the Soviet, Russian literary critic and historian, publicist, essayist, author of more than 30 books. He is also a scriptwriter, and as such the three times TEFI laureate (1996 and 2004, twice). Lev Anninsky was born in 1934, to Alexander Anninsky, a cossack from stanitsa Novo-Anninskaya, and Anna Alexandrova, born in Lyubech, Ukraine. In his early years Lev Anninsky read a lot, mostly Russian classics and history books, but also philosophers like Hegel and Kant. In 1939 a five-year-old appeared on the screen, cast as a kindergarten