· 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 naïve young American acolytes. · In de bittere strijd om de opvolging van de in overleden Lenin, gaf de intellectueel en begaafde orator Trotski blijk van een gevaarlijk gebrek aan politiek instinct die hem de diepgaande en niet aflatende haat van zijn rivaal Josef Stalin opleverde. Stalin's Nemesis. The Exile and Murder of Leon Trotsky, van Bertrand M. Patenaude /5(50). By Bertrand M Patenaude Stalin's Nemesis The Exile and Murder of Leon Trotsky [Hardcover] Hardcover – Decem out of 5 stars 52 ratings See all formats and editions/5(52).
Stalin's Nemesis: The Exile and Murder of Leon Trotsky by Bertrand M Patenaude is available for £20 from Booksmarks, the socialist bookshop. Phone or go to» www. Bertrand M Patenaude, Faber Faber; £20 Leon Trotsky spent the last four years of his life in a prison-like exile in Mexico. Pursued by Stalinist enemies, he survived an armed assault on his home before succumbing to the blows of Ramon Mercader, a GPU agent posing as a political sympathiser. This sunset period of Trotsky's life forms the basis of Bertrand M. Patenaude's book, Stalin's Nemesis: The Exile and Murder of Leon Trotsky. Despite its title, the book covers only Trotsky's exile in Mexico, from to , and largely overlooks the time he spent exiled in Turkey, France, and Norway beforehand.
American academic Bertrand M Patenaude's new book, Stalin's Nemesis: The Exile and Murder of Leon Trotsky, is likely to gain a wide readership, including young people and workers interested in the life and ideas of this great revolutionary. An account of Trotsky's last years in exile in Mexico, during his heroic struggles against Stalinism, fascism and capitalism, and, pertinently, during the last great economic crisis, is to be welcomed. Stalin's Nemesis: The Exile and Murder of Leon Trotsky. by Bertrand M Patenaude pp, Faber, £ For over half a century, Isaac Deutscher's three-volume biography of Trotsky, a literary. This book tells the story of Leon Trotsky and his years of exile and eventual assassination in Mexico from to Unfortunately it is marred by an extremely eccentric approach to story-telling with over-clever cutting between times and places. This is intended to tell the background to the main story but it soon gets out of hand.
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