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The Death of Trotsky: The True Story of the Plot to Kill Stalin's Greatest Enemy

by Josh Ireland

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Trotsky’s final years in exile

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    A LitHub Most Anticipated Book of the Year

    Named a LitHub Most Anticipated Book of the Year.

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Trotsky’s final years in exile

Josh Ireland’s account centers on Leon Trotsky’s assassination in Mexico in 1940 and the pursuit that preceded it. The supplied description places the killing within Joseph Stalin’s long campaign against his former revolutionary rival, including the reach of Soviet agents across Europe and into Trotsky’s exile. At 384 pages, the book frames the assassination as part of a wider history of political pursuit and personal danger in the mid-20th century. The description ends before identifying the assassin’s full role, so the editorial focus here stays on the documented premise: Trotsky’s years evading Stalin’s efforts and the attack that ended them.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in Leon Trotsky and Soviet history.
  • Readers exploring political assassination and 20th-century history.
  • Readers interested in the history of exile and political pursuit.

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Political assassinationSoviet historyExilePolitical rivalry

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Book overview

A LitHub and Parade Most Anticipated Book of the Year

For fans of Ben Macintyre and Erik Larson, the gripping story of the assassination of Soviet revolutionary Leon Trotsky and the deadly game of cat and mouse that preceded it

On August 20, 1940, Leon Trotsky invited a man he knew only as Jacques Mornard into his study. Mornard waited for Trotsky to sit, then smashed an ice pick he had hidden in his raincoat into Trotsky's skull.

For over a decade, Trotsky's greatest enemy, Joseph Stalin, had been trying to arrange his murder. Stalin's agents had hunted him across Europe and into a lonely, bitter exile in Mexico. He had liquidated Trotsky's family and friends, and yet Trotsky had always escaped his clutches. The man who changed this all was Ram
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