Revolution Rejects Its Children is an autobiographical novel by German politician and historian Wolfgang Leonhard. In his memoirs, the author covers the period 1935-1949, the youth that passed in the USSR and the first years in post-war East Germany. In the difficult historical period of Stalin's repressions and the Great Patriotic War for the USSR, Leonhard met many figures of the German and international communist movement who were in exile in the Soviet Union.