Stalin — An appraisal of the man and his influence (1940) (original) (raw)

First Published in English: 1941. Edited and translated from Russian by Charles Malamuth.
Online Version: Marxists Internet Archive, 2009.
Transcribed/HTML Markup: Martin Falgren & David Walters in 2009.
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Special Note by the Editor/Trasncriber of this Work

Trotsky’s Stalin biography is an important historical document. Unfortunately Trotsky was not able to complete the book himself – he was assassinated by the Spanish stalinist Ramón Mercader – and the incomplete manuscript was edited and translated by Charles Malamuth.

The first seven chapters of the book were near completion by Trotsky's own hands. The rest was mainly fragments which Malamuth had to put together to finish the book. The latter part of the book has been critizised for reflecting Malamuth's views more than Trotsky's. However that problem doesn't apply to the first part of the book, which we publish here.