My Life
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
One of the most dramatic and consequential lives of the twentieth century unfolds in Leon Trotsky's My Life, a sweeping autobiography that chronicles the revolutionary's extraordinary journey from a Jewish childhood on the Ukrainian steppe to the corridors of Soviet power and, ultimately, into bitter exile. Written with unflinching candour, the narrative traces Trotsky's intellectual awakening, his pivotal role in the 1905 and 1917 Russian Revolutions, his command of the Red Army during the brutal Civil War, and his fierce ideological battles with Stalin — a rivalry that would seal his fate and reshape world history. Trotsky writes with the authority of both a participant and a theorist, blending sharp political analysis with vivid personal memoir in a style that is at once passionate and forensically precise. My Life stands as a landmark document of revolutionary thought, offering an indispensable insider's account of a world being remade by fire and ideology. It is also, unmistakably, the self-portrait of a man who never ceased to believe — right up to the ice-pick's fatal blow — that history would ultimately vindicate him. For anyone seeking to understand the turbulent birth of the Soviet era, this remains essential, electrifying reading.
Author: Leon Trotsky
Format: Paperback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
One of the most dramatic and consequential lives of the twentieth century unfolds in Leon Trotsky's My Life, a sweeping autobiography that chronicles the revolutionary's extraordinary journey from a Jewish childhood on the Ukrainian steppe to the corridors of Soviet power and, ultimately, into bitter exile. Written with unflinching candour, the narrative traces Trotsky's intellectual awakening, his pivotal role in the 1905 and 1917 Russian Revolutions, his command of the Red Army during the brutal Civil War, and his fierce ideological battles with Stalin — a rivalry that would seal his fate and reshape world history. Trotsky writes with the authority of both a participant and a theorist, blending sharp political analysis with vivid personal memoir in a style that is at once passionate and forensically precise. My Life stands as a landmark document of revolutionary thought, offering an indispensable insider's account of a world being remade by fire and ideology. It is also, unmistakably, the self-portrait of a man who never ceased to believe — right up to the ice-pick's fatal blow — that history would ultimately vindicate him. For anyone seeking to understand the turbulent birth of the Soviet era, this remains essential, electrifying reading.