Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary

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.

Author: Bertrand M. Patenaude
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 09/14/2010
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.93h x 5.58w x 0.92d
ISBN: 9780060820695

About the Author
Patenaude, Bertrand M.: -

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 of The Big Show in Bololand, which won the Marshall Shulman Book Prize. He lives in Menlo Park, California.