Wellred Books proudly presents a work eighty years in the making: Leon Trotsky’s unfinished biography of Stalin. We publish here the story behind the publication of this book – the most extensive edition of the book ever, completed from the original archive material – as told by Rob Sewell, editor of Socialist Appeal. Make a pledge today and help raise the money needed to finish this project!

Continuing our commemoration marking the 75th anniversary of the death of Leon Trotsky, we publish here an introduction by Alan Woods to Trotsky’s masterpiece: the Revolution Betrayed.

The events of the Russian Revolution1917 are the greatest in all of human history. For the first time in history, the exploited masses fought back and won. And yet within 10 years, the Soviet Union had degenerated into a bureaucratic and totalitarian regime, with Stalin at its head. How did this process occur? And what is Stalinism?