Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary - Softcover

Patenaude, Bertrand M

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060820691 ISBN 13: 9780060820695

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2010

Synopsis

In Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary, Stanford University lecturer Bertrand M. Patenaude tells the dramatic story of Leon Trotsky's final years in exile in Mexico. Shedding new light on Trotsky's tumultuous friendship with painter Diego Rivera, his affair with Rivera's wife Frida Kahlo, and his torment as his family and comrades become victims of the Great Terror, Trotsky Downfall of a Revolutionary brilliantly illuminates the fateful and dramatic life of one of history's most famous yet elusive figures.

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Trotsky Patenaude tells the dramatic story of Leon Trotsky's final years in exile in Mexico, and the light they shed on one of the most captivating and controversial figures in modern history. Full description

Review:

"Well researched and vividly told." -- Robert Service, The Guardian

"Well researched and vividly told." -- --Robert Service, The Guardian

"Excellent, exciting. . . . "Trotsky" charts, with novelistic flair and in archival detail, the progress of the plot that culminated in Trotsky being killed with an ice axe in 1940."--Simon Sebag Montefiore, "The Sunday Telegraph"

"This book deepens and enhances the sense of tragedy that always attends contemplation of 'the Old Man' and his last struggle."--Christopher Hitchens

Bertrand Patenaude tells a masterly story, of a brilliant, cornered man and, along the way, of a misguided century. --"The Wall Street Journal""

Excellent, exciting. . . . "Trotsky" charts, with novelistic flair and in archival detail, the progress of the plot that culminated in Trotsky being killed with an ice axe in 1940. --Simon Sebag Montefiore, "The Sunday Telegraph""

This book deepens and enhances the sense of tragedy that always attends contemplation of the Old Man and his last struggle. --Christopher Hitchens"

An absorbing reconstruction of Trotsky s last years in Mexico. . . . Patenaude s hyrbrid history and detective story grips from start to finish. With rare narrative verve, he chronicles the last years of a revolutionary s life, with its sexual jealousies, paranoia, and finally murder. --Ian Thomson, "The Sunday Times""

Well researched and vividly told. --Robert Service, "The Guardian""

A captivating account. . . . Patenaude paints a vivid portrait of Trotsky, a flamboyant, Westernized intellectual. . . . This is a dramatic, event-filled portrait of a turbulent, half forgotten era. ----"Publishers Weekly" (starred review)"

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0060820691
• ISBN 13: 9780060820695
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384