Революция отвергает своих детей

The Revolution Rejects its Children (German: Die Revolution entläßt ihre Kinder) is an autobiographical novel by the German politician and historian Wolfgang Leonhard, published in 1955 by Kiepenheuer & Witsch in Cologne. In his memoirs, the author covers the period 1935-1949, his youth in the USSR and the first years in post-war East Germany. During the difficult historical period of the Stalinist repressions and the Great Patriotic War for the USSR, Leonhard met many leaders of the German and international communist movement who were in exile in the Soviet Union. Recalling the first years in post-war Berlin, Leonhard describes in detail the various tasks that had to be solved in the Soviet zone of occupation: interaction with the Soviet occupation authorities, the restoration of the self-government system, party building, land reform, the unification of the SPD and the SED.

One of the most widely read German biographies. The novel went through 23 reprints and was translated into 11 languages. The Russian edition appeared in 1984 in London.