My Life Author:Leon Trotsky With an introduction by Joseph Hansen — Since its original publication in 1930 this has long been recognized as one of the world's great autobiographies. Its literary qualities and the author's character would by themselves have made it a fascinating human document. But because Trotsky played such an important and heroic role i... more »n world-shaking events, it takes on historic dimensions, The reader is given an inside picture of the tempestuous 1905 Revolution, the Bolshevik victory in 1917, and the civil war which followed.
Written in the first year of Trotsky's exile in Turkey, My Life contains the first authoritative account of the rise of Stalinism and its overpowering of the Left Opposition which fought for the continuance of Lenin's revolutionary course. To this edition have been added a chronology of events in the remaining years if Trotsky's life and an introduction by Joseph Hansen, who was Trotsky's secretary from 1937, the year of Trotsky's arrival in Mexico, until August 21, 1940, when the great revolutionist diesd from wounds inflicted by an agent if Stalin's GPU.« less