Stalin's Nemesis: The Exile and Murder of Leon Trotsky


A rare treat. Trotsky is always quietly shushed over, living his life in exile, written out of the popular culture. People talk of Stalin and Lenin : Trotsky not so often. This revealing, and fascinating book undertakes the rare and hard task of piecing together the final days of this important character. In an environment as a virtual prisoner, the fierce and uncompromising - one might say harsh - intellect rages and this potential world leader, is here in a fragmented exile. The prose is sharp and vivid, the final depiction of his end told dispassionately and forensically, yet all the more effective for a moment of detachment. This is an intruiging, couldn't-make-it-up tale in a concise, brisk package that is quite literally crying out for a big screen adaptation as it is an intimately epic tale of the man who would never be king.
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