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Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary

by Bertrand M. Patenaude

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Trotsky’s final years in exile

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Trotsky’s final years in exile

Bertrand M. Patenaude’s biography concentrates on Leon Trotsky’s last years in Mexico, placing his personal relationships alongside the political violence that reached his family and comrades during the Great Terror. The account connects Trotsky’s friendship with painter Diego Rivera and his affair with Frida Kahlo to the pressures of exile and revolutionary history. At 384 pages, it offers a focused portrait of a prominent historical figure through the intersecting strands of private life, political upheaval, and loss.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in Leon Trotsky and revolutionary history
  • Readers seeking historical biography centered on a figure’s final years in exile
  • Readers interested in the connections among Trotsky, Diego Rivera, and Frida Kahlo

Themes

Political exileRevolutionary historyPersonal relationshipsThe Great Terror and its impact on family and comrades

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In Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary, Stanford University lecturer Bertrand M. Patenaude tells the dramatic story of Leon Trotsky's final years in exile in Mexico. Shedding new light on Trotsky's tumultuous friendship with painter Diego Rivera, his affair with Rivera's wife Frida Kahlo, and his torment as his family and comrades become victims of the Great Terror, Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary brilliantly illuminates the fateful and dramatic life of one of history's most famous yet elusive figures.

 

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