The Old Man
Sheila Fitzpatrick: Trotsky, 22 April 2010
Trotsky: A Biography
by Robert Service.
Macmillan, 600 pp., £9.99, April 2010,978 0 330 43969 5 Show More
by Robert Service.
Macmillan, 600 pp., £9.99, April 2010,
Stalin’s Nemesis: The Exile and Murder of Leon Trotsky
by Bertrand Patenaude.
Faber, 472 pp., £9.99, March 2010,978 0 571 22876 8 Show More
by Bertrand Patenaude.
Faber, 472 pp., £9.99, March 2010,
“... once Stalin had decided to kill him. The last years of Trotsky’s life are the subject of Bertrand Patenaude’s book, and although it’s not the first time this story has been told – Isaac Deutscher’s third volume, The Prophet Outcast, covers the same territory – it remains gripping. Patenaude’s focus ... ”
