Stalin's Nemesis - The Exile and Murder of Leon Trotsky

Informationen zum Autor Bertrand M. Patenaude is a lecturer at Stanford University, where he is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution Library and Archives. He is the author or editor of several books on Russian and Soviet history, including The Big Show in Bololand: The American Relief Expedition to Soviet Russia in the Famine of 1921 (Stanford University Press, 2002), which won the 2003 Marshall Shulman Book Prize. Klappentext His wife was restless and jealous. Outside of the villa, Mexican communists tried to storm the house, the Trotskys' sons were being persecuted and killed in Europe, and in Moscow, Stalin personally ordered his secret police to kill his fiercest left-wing critic - at any cost. Stalin's Nemesis: The Exile and Murder of Leon Trotsky by Bertrand Patenaude: revolution, politics, exile, art, literature and murder - the astonishing true story of the demise of Stalin's fiery adversary. Zusammenfassung His wife was restless and jealous. Outside of the villa, Mexican communists tried to storm the house, the Trotskys' sons were being persecuted and killed in Europe, and in Moscow, Stalin personally ordered his secret police to kill his fiercest left-wing critic - at any cost.

Product details

• Authors: Bertrand Patenaude, Bertrand M. Patenaude
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 04.03.2010
• EAN: 9780571228768
• ISBN: 978-0-571-22876-8
• No. of pages: 472
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 197 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book; Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, Biography: historical, political and military, USSR, Soviet Union