Trotsky: The Life of a Revolutionary

Leon Trotsky does not fade from our historical memory. An outstanding revolutionary figure and a talented author, he was a driving force of the upheavals that largely shaped the political contours of the 20th century. At the same time, a world-class intellectual and a person capable of narrow ideological dogmatism, an effective military strategist and a skilled diplomat and politician, he failed to play his cards in the power struggle against Stalin in the 1920s. In Joshua Rubinstein's book, Trotsky appears as a brilliant yet brilliantly imperfect man, and this biography is yet another key to understanding and making sense of what happened to Russia in the 20th century.