File:Trotsky-RevolutionBetrayed-1937-dj-lores.jpg

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Dust jacket of the 1937 First American edition of The Revolution Betrayed by Leon Trotsky (NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1937).

Specimen in Tim Davenport collection.

Scanned by Tim Davenport ("Carrite") for Wikipedia, no copyright claimed.

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