>I don't know if all of these are available in English,
>but it would be interesting to look at the contrasting
>accounts of the Civil War in Trotsky's "History of the
>Russian Revolution," Kolchak's Memoirs, Kerensky's
>"The Russian Revolution," and Kaganovish's
>autobiography, given that they were all direct
>partisipants with very different ideologies/points of view.
>
Barbara Tuchman called Trotsky one of the great historians of all time,
and The Russian Revolution, one of the greatest works of history of all
time.
I have it on my bookshelf. I've read most everything else he wrote, but this one looks formidable.
He's a really good writer.
Joanna