TROTSKY
Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) spent most of his adult life in exile, first banished by the tsarist government and later expelled from the Soviet state that he’d created.
Stalin had Trotsky condemned to death in a show trial organized in Moscow in 1936. After that it was only a matter of time before a Soviet assassin would strike the fatal blow.
recommended reading
For an account of Trotsky’s years in exile in Mexico, check out this work by historian Bertrand Patenaude, available on Kindle: Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary
Isaac Deutscher’s account of the life of Trotsky concludes with The Prophet Outcast: Trotsky 1929-1940
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