Ida Mett: “Russia’s Third Revolution” Order Form

Paris: Editions Spartacus, 1948
This had been written in 1938 with a view to serialization in La Revolution proletariene. In an introduction to a 1970 reprint Ida states that Pierre Monatte an old and respected member of the group around the paper argued against printing it.He had known Trotsky well during World War One and felt this was a direct attack on Trotsky.Interestingly the book was slated to be printed in English by Freedom Press in1949 with the title Russia’s Third Revolution: The Inside Story of the Kronstadt Rising. Announcements were made in Freedom and other papers and a pre-order form was circulated (see following pages). For whatever reasons the book was not published in English until 1967 as The Kronstadt Commune published by Solidarity.