”Trotsky may have looked the part of the Red warlord, yet he had no military background. In fact as war commissar he rarely involved himself in questions of strategy or operations, leaving this to the experts. He reserved for himself the role of supreme agitator, and because he was as ruthless as he...
To be read before 15.03.2013Withdrawn by LIBRARIES NIOpening: In the early morning hours of 24 May 1940, Leon Trotsky slept soundly inside his villa in Coyoacán, a small town on the southern outskirts of Mexico City.Potted history leading up to the murder:•Trotsky was born Lev Davidovich Bronstein, ...