The Stalin School of Falsification

The Stalin School of Falsification is a 1932 book by Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky. Written after Trotsky's expulsion from the Soviet Union, the book contains a detailed account of how historians chosen by Joseph Stalin rewrote revolutionary history. A well-known example from the book concerns the revolutionary contributions by Trotsky himself about which Stalin had written glowingly in 1918, but whose special value he denied by 1924.

Publication history

The book was initially published in Russian at Berlin in 1932. A translation in English by Max Shachtman was published in 1937 by Pioneer Publishers. In 1974, New Park in London published another edition.