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

New Statesman | June 22, 2009| | Copyright

Stalin's Nemesis: the Exile and Murder of Leon Trotsky, Bertrand M Patenaude Faber 8c Faber, 352pp, £20

As an intellectual, orator and internationalist, Leon Trotsky was superior to all his Russian contemporaries. As a politician, however, he was easily outmanoeuvred by Stalin, who told him the wrong date for Lenin's funeral and later expelled him from both the Communist Party and the Soviet Union.

Stalin's Nemesis documents the final years of Trotsky's desperate rearguard action against the man he denounced as the "gravedigger of the revolution". After being hounded from country to country ...

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