My Life Part 1 Of 2 Author:Leon Trotsky Part One Of Two Parts Aside from the literary qualities of this autobiography, Trotsky's place in great events of this century make it a classic historical document. Written in the first year of the author's exile in Turkey, MY LIFE gives the first authoritative account of the rise of a counterrevolutionary bureaucracy led by Joseph Stalin an... more »d of its brutal repression of the forces fighting to defend the Communist program charted by Lenin. Trotsky continued this struggle in exile, as noted in an introduction by Joseph Hansen, Trotsky's secretary from 1937 until Trotsky's assassination in Mexico in 1940. "With events changing so rapidly in the former Soviet Union, it is instructive to look back at the turbulent early years of the USSR." (B-O-T Editorial Review Board)« less