World Revolution, 1917–1936: The Rise and Fall of the Communist International was written by the Black Trinidadian Marxist C. L. R. James and originally published in 1937 by Secker and Warburg. It was a pioneering Marxist analysis from a Trotskyist, yet not uncritical of Trotskyism, perspective of the history of revolutions during the interwar period and of the fundamental conflict between Trotsky and Stalin after the Russian Revolution.