Leon Trotsky: A Biography

This major new biography of Leon Trotsky, fittingly published on the centennial of his birth, magnificently captures the qualities of character and intellect that make Trotsky an infinitely captivating figure. A maker of the revolution as well as its brilliant historian, a prolific and superlative writer, a thinker as well as a doer, he had an extraordinary command of rarely compatible talents. Segal’s compelling portrayal enhances Trotsky’s stature still further in revealing a man delightfully lacking in pretensions and ultimately out of joint with his times but not with himself.