Offers the dramatic story of Leon Trotsky's final years in exile in Mexico and the light they shed on one of the most captivating and controversial figures in modern history.

"Drawing on new research, including the diaries, memoirs, and personal letters of both Lenin and his friends, Victor Sebestyen's biography--the first in English in nearly two decades--is not only a political examination of one of the most important historical figures of the twentieth century, but a portrait of Lenin the man."-- Provided by publisher. "Victor Sebestyen's riveting biography of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin--the first major biography in English...