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 "I would make Michael S. Farbman's 'Russia and the Struggle for Peace' compulsory in all schools. This is a book to sweep the cobwebs away for ever. We here learn the actual truth for the first time about the Revolution."—Evening News.

"A singularly valuable addition to our knowledge. Nowhere could one find a clearer or more obviously truthful account of the great upheaval."—The Herald.

"A valuable and original series of notes on revolutionary Russia."—Daily News.

"The dynasty flaunts its brutal, sordid, attractive and romantic career through his pages."—The Times.

"He has produced a picture which is complete and admirably clear."—Glasgow Herald,

This book is in no sense propaganda work, but a serious attempt to show every stage of the crisis in its historical perspective. Trotsky's argument is that "war is the method by which capitalism seeks to solve its insoluble contradictions, and to this method the proletariat must oppose its own method, the method of the Social Revolution.” His chapters will come as a surprise to those readers who do not know how experienced and skilful a journalist he is, and there is an added surprise for those who imagine that Trotsky is, or was, a "pro-German," for they will find him to be one of the bitterest and most uncompromising opponents of the imperialism of the Central Powers.