"Roll over Derrida: "Literature and Revolution" is back in print. Nothing in the postmodern canon comes close to the intellectual grandeur of Trotsky's vision of art and literature in an age of revolution, or his extraordinary meditations on the popular ownership of culture."-Mike Davis
"Re-reading Trotsky on literature 40 years later is a delight."-Tariq Ali
Leon Trotsky penned this engaging book to elucidate the complex way in which art informs- and can alter-our understanding of the world. Features new reader-friendly explanatory notes.
Leon Trotsky was a leader of the Russian ...
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor
Date Published: 1960
Description: Very good. Covers are soiled and edge worn. Interior clean and tight. 255 pages. (Ann Arbor paperbacks for the study of communism and Marxism) read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: International Publishers, New York
Date Published: 1925
Description: 256p., cloth binding is heavily shelfworn, and handling-soiled even to filthiness, all gold lettering rubbed off. Formerly owned by Joseph Giganti, expelled from the CP in 1929. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Russell & Russell
Date Published: N.D.
Description: Good with no dust jacket. No date discernable. Cover worn and soiled.; Russell & Russell Scholars' Classics; 8"-9" tall; 256 pages. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Russell & Russell, New York
Date Published: 1957
Description: Very Good. DJ bumped, chipped and foxed, bu. NOT EX-LIB! FIRST EDITION, 1957 HARDBACK! Hardback with bumps and rubs to covers. All text bright and tight! I have a stellar reputation as a bookseller. Please email with any questions. Thank you for looking! "Find it! Buy it! Read it! " Arkansas Bookseller. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Russell & Russell Inc
Date Published: 1957
Description: Good. Good with fair d/j. Light shelf wear, small stain at bottom cover corner. Name on fly. A couple brief underlines, vast majority of text clean. Tight Spine. DJ worn. read more
Binding: Unknown Binding
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Date Published: 1966
Description: Reading copy. 1966, 2nd printing of 1960 edition. Ex-college library with associated stampings/tickets etc. Pages all good, lots of wear to cover. Will be sent from Devon within 24 hours by first class post.; Ann Arbor paperbacks for the study of communism and Marxism; 255 pages. read more
Description: Russell & Russell, 1957. 255 pages. Reprint of 1924 edition. Hardback. Very Good+ in Very Good dustjacket. Top is a bit dusty, jacket has tiny tears at the rear corners. Covers Blok, Mayakovsky, Futurism, Proletarian Art, etc. Uncommon in hardcover. read more
Edition: First American
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: International Publishers, New York
Date Published: 1925
Description: Poor jacket. Revolutionary leader Trotsky applies materialist dialectics in an analysis of literature and art, criticizing the men and movements that make up the literature of the Russian Revolution, will there be a proletarian culture? etc. Very Good in blue cloth in a Good edge-chipped tan dust jacket, endpapers foxed. 256pp (p) read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Russell & Russell, New York
Date Published: 1958
Description: Fair. NOTE: 1957 EDITION. SCARCE SOFTCOVER BOOK. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT; LIGHT CREASING TO CORNERS OF LAST PAGES; GLUE & FRAYING PRESENT IN FRONT HINGE. MODERATE WEAR, CREASING & FRAYING TO COVER, WITH DARKENING AROUND SPINE, SPLITTING FROM FRONT SPINE TIPS, AND LIGHTLY TWISTED SPINE. AN ACCEPTABLE READING COPY. LOC: TROTSKY. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: International Publishers, NY
Date Published: 1925
Description: Lacks DJ; blue cloth; spine worn at head and heel; a few pencil marks in margins; else good cond; sl. shaken; rear hinge just starting at head; some lt. toning; frontispiece portrait of Trotsky by Hugo Gellert. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: International Publishers, NY
Date Published: 1925
Description: Lacks DJ; else fair cond. in blue cloth with faded gilt lettering; spine has label attached at heel; a few pencil marks in margins; hinge weak; some lt. toning; bookplate on front pastedown; lt. pencil markings on toned and scuffed eps. read more
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