Offers new insights into the life of the Russian revolutionary, exploring the battle of personalities between Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin and examining examples of both brilliant and flawed thinking which lead to his political oblivion.
Offers new insights into the life of the Russian revolutionary, exploring the battle of personalities between Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin and examining examples of both brilliant and flawed thinking which lead to his political oblivion.
Born Lev Davidovich Bronstein in southern Ukraine, Trotsky was both a world-class intellectual and a man capable of the most narrow-minded ideological dogmatism. He was an effective military strategist and an adept diplomat, who staked the fate of the Bolshevik revolution on the…