The Battle for Childhood: Creation of a Russian Myth by Andrew Baruch Wachtel
English | May 1990 | ISBN: 0804717958 | 274 Pages | PDF | 41 MB
Tolstoy's Childhood, a work of fiction published in 1852, marked the 23-year-old aristocratic author's literary debut. Leon Trotsky's My Life is nonfiction - the autobiography of an embittered and aging Russian-Jewish exile. Yet in his discussion of childhood, Trotsky felt compelled to attack Tolstoy's literary conception, a conception that by the 1930's should have been utterly irrelevant.