CSPAN2 Book TV November 14, 2010
this book. the book focuses, as mcginn said on the last years of trotsky's life in mexico. so 1937 to 1940. with flashbacks to pivotal moments in his earlier career, his young revolutionary great reader of the revolution of 1918, creator and a leader of the red army and then of course of inquest rifle of stalin. but let's start with diego. it was thanks to diego rivera, the great mural painter, that trotsky landed in mexico. stalin had rounded trotsky in the battle to succeed lenin who died in 1924 and then sent trotsky into exile. they actually first went to turkey. from there, from...