Unaddressed Letters; Art and Social Life

Trotsky's survey of Russian literature after 1917 and his argument about art, revolution and proletarian culture. A founding work of Marxist literary criticism.

Leon Trotsky

A pioneering Marxist study of poetry, tracing how verse grows out of social labour and how it changed with capitalism. Written by a young critic killed in the Spanish Civil War.

Christopher Caudwell