World Revolution, 1917–1936: The Rise and Fall of the Communist International was written by Trinidadian Marxist C. L. R. James and published in 1937 by Secker and Warburg.

He was helped when writing it by Harry Wicks and other Trotskyists, while Dorothy Pizer typed up the manuscript.

George Orwell in 1937 thought it "[a] very able book", while E. H. Carr in 1937 called it "decidedly useful ... in his analysis of the course of the Russian Revolution and of the point at which it took the wrong turning, Mr. James displays commendable independence of judgment and desire to arrive at the truth.

[3] Although the work was banned by British colonial authorities, it was smuggled into India and G Selvarajatnan, later leader of the great strike in the Madras textile mills was converted to Trotskyism upon reading it, and Leslie Goonewardene's Rise and Fall of the Comintern published ten years afterwards in Bombay was largely based on it.

[4] A new edition was produced in 2017 by Duke University Press to mark the centenary of the Russian Revolution.