Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary [Audiobook]
English | November 25, 2013 | ASIN: B00GWQBE1K | M4B@128 kbps | 12h 48m | 712 MB
Author: Bertrand M. Patenaude | Narrator: Matthew Waterson
English | November 25, 2013 | ASIN: B00GWQBE1K | M4B@128 kbps | 12h 48m | 712 MB
Author: Bertrand M. Patenaude | Narrator: Matthew Waterson
A dramatic chronicle of revolutionary, politician, and political theorist Leon Trotsky’s final years in exile in Mexico.
Few political figures of the twentieth century have aroused as much passion, controversy, and curiosity as Leon Trotsky. His role in history—his epic rise and fall, his fiery persona, his violent end in Mexico in August 1940—holds a fascination that transcends the history of the Russian Revolution. Bertrand M. Patenaude masterfully interweaves the story of Trotsky’s final years with flashbacks to pivotal episodes in his career as a young Marxist, revolutionary hero, Red Army chief, Bolshevik leader, outcast from Stalin’s USSR, and ultimately heretic of the Kremlin, targeted for assassination by its secret police. Gripping, tragic, and based on extensive firsthand research, Trotsky brilliantly illuminates the fateful and dramatic life of one of history’s most captivating and important figures.