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Trotsky : downfall of a revolutionary

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  • ISBN: 0060820683
  • ISBN: 9780060820688
  • ISBN: 9780060820695
  • Physical Description: print
    370 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York, N.Y. : HarperCollins, c2009.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Armored train -- The verdict -- Man of October -- Day of the dead -- The trouble with father -- Prisoners and provocateurs -- Fellow travelers -- The great dictator -- To the Finland station -- Lucky strike -- Deadline.
Subject: Trotsky, Leon -- 1879-1940
Trotsky, Leon -- 1879-1940 -- Assassination
Revolutionaries -- Soviet Union -- Biography
Statesmen -- Soviet Union -- Biography
Exiles -- Mexico -- Biography
Mexico -- History -- 1910-1946

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  • Baker & Taylor
    Historian Patenaude, a lecturer at Stanford, concentrates on the period from 1937, when Trotsky arrived in Mexico, to his assassination in 1940, painting a vivid portrait of Lenin's former right-hand man: his stormy relations with his flamboyant Mexican champion (and later enemy), artist Diego Rivera; his dealings with his American supporters; and the relentless efforts of Stalin's GPU to kill him.
  • Baker & Taylor
    The author offers 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. 25,000 first printing.
  • Baker & Taylor
    Offers 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.
  • HARPERCOLL

    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.

  • HARPERCOLL

    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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