Trotsky

<p>This new biography provides a full account of Leon Trotsky's political life based upon a wealth of primary sources including previously unpublished material.</p><p>Ian D. Thatcher paints a new picture of Trotsky's standing in Russian and world history. Key myths about Trotsky's heroic work as a revolutionary especially in Russia's first revolution of 1905 and the Russian Civil War are thrown into question. Although Trotsky had a limited understanding of crucial contemporary events such as Hitler's rise to power he was an important thinker and politician not least as a trenchant critic of Stalin's version of communism.</p>