Introduces the writings of Leon Trotsky

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 meagre foundation of[...]

Leon Trotsky was the charismatic intellectual of the Russian Revolution, an authoritarian organizer, who might have succeeded Lenin and become the ruler of the Soviet Union. But by the time the Second World War broke out he was in exile, living in Mexico in a villa borrowed from the great artists Di[...]

*Includes pictures of Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky and important people, places, and events in their lives.
*Explains each man's role in the Revolution and its aftermath.
*Discusses the conspiracy theories surrounding Stalin's death and how Stalin came to power against Lenin's wishes.
*Includ[...]

Amusing, well researched, and surprisingly sophisticated, "Leon Trotsky: An Illustrated Introduction" is the perfect primer on the life and thought of the great leader and chronicler of the Russian Revolution. With sympathy and humor, Tariq Ali and Phil Evans trace his political career, from prison [...]

The Dewey Commission, which met in 1937 to investigate the charges made in the Moscow Trials against Leon Trotsky, has been accepted uncritically as a refutation of those charges and a convincing determination that Trotsky was "not guilty." The present book studies the Dewey Commission proceedings a[...]