Leon trotsky biography my life

Leon Trotsky

My Life

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Our times again are rich in memoirs, perhaps richer than ever before.

This on-line version of My Life stays loyal to the literary structure, spelling and grammar of the original version published in from which it was.

Autobiographical account by a leader of the October Russian revolution, the Soviet Red Army, and the battle initiated by Lenin against the Stalinist.

Leon Trotsky published this remarkable book in , the first year of a perilous, decade-long exile that ended with his assassination in Mexico.

Trotsky published this extraordinary autobiography in while residing in Turkey, where Stalin had sent him into exile.

This book is not a dispassionate photo graph of my life, however, but a component part of it.

It is because there is much to tell. The more dramatic and rich in change the epoch, the more intense the interest in current history. The art of landscape-painting could never have been born in the Sahara. The “crossing” of two epochs, as at present, gives rise to a desire to look back at yesterday, already far away, through the eyes of its active participants.

My Life: An Attempt at an Autobiography is the name of the Russian revolutionary Communist leader Leon Trotsky's autobiography.

That is the reason for the enormous growth in the literature of reminiscence since the days of the last war. Perhaps it will justify the present volume as well.

The very fact of its coming into the world is due to the pause in the author’s active political life.

One of the unforeseen, though not accidental, stops in my life has proved to be Constantinople. Here I am camping – but not for the first time – and patiently waiting for what is to follow. The life of a revolutionary would be quite