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Letter to Simon and Schuster (Excerpts), February 26, 1932
| Author(s) | Leon Trotsky |
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| Written | 26 February 1932 |
… The young scholars who helped me with the preparation of the books [Collected Works in the Russian] are now, like my other closest coworkers, in prisons and other places of exile in Siberia and Central Asia.
… The second volume [of The History of the Russian Revolution], devoted to the October Revolution, is almost finished.It has taken me considerably more time than the first — not only because it considerably exceeds the first volume in size but chiefly because in the sphere of the October Revolution the official Stalin school of history has succeeded in carrying out a colossal work of "stylization" (not to say falsification), and here the verification of facts and documents has demanded special care.
… In 1919 Wilson and Lloyd George proposed to call an international conference at Prinkipo with the participation of the Soviets. Lenin insisted that I represent Soviet Russia at that conference. The conference did not take place owing to inner conflicts in the Entente. But I arrived in Prinkipo just the same — not for negotiations with European diplomats but for work on the history of the Russian Revolution. I must confess that this work is far more agreeable to me than the other.