Stalin's Nemesis

The Exile and Murder of Leon Trotsky

Bertrand Patenaude

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Faber & Faber
03 May 2010

Biography: historical, political & military; History; Revolutionary groups & movements

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 Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, guarded only by several naive young American acolytes. The household was awash with emotional turmoil - tensions grew between Trotsky and Rivera, as questions arose over his relations with Frida Kahlo. His wife was restless and jealous. Outside of the villa, Mexican communists tried to storm the house, the Trotskys' sons were being persecuted and killed in Europe, and in Moscow, Stalin personally ordered his secret police to kill his fiercest left-wing critic - at any cost. By the summer of 1940, they had found a man who could penetrate the tight security around the house in far-away Mexico .

Bertrand Patenaude's book reconstructs a famous state crime with chilling precision and a page-turning quality. It tells the amazing story of a deadly rivalry, revolutionary fanaticism and tragic violence and loss.

By: Bertrand Patenaude
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 380g
ISBN: 9780571228768
ISBN 10: 0571228763
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 03 May 2010
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Bertrand Patenaude teaches history at the Hoover Institution, Stanford, California. He is the author of The Big Show in Bololand, a remarkable account of the US relief expedition to the Soviet Union during the famine of 1921.

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Stalin's Nemesis

The Exile and Murder of Leon Trotsky

Bertrand Patenaude

$32.99

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