Banished from the Soviet Union in 1929, one of Leon Trotsky's first political tasks was to produce this damning reply to the falsification and rewriting of Bolshevik history carried out by the Soviet Communist Party�s Stalinist leadership. Trotsky�s decisive role in the October Revolution, the Russian civil war and the first years of Soviet Russia, is exhaustively documented in his "Letter to the Bureau of Party History" which was refused publication in the Soviet Union and forms the main section of this book. First published 1932.