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.

"Lev Davidovich Trotsky burst onto the world stage in November 1917 as co-leader of a Marxist Revolution seizing power in Russia. It made him one of the most recognized personalities of the twentieth century, a global icon of radical change. Yet just months earlier, this same Lev Trotsky was a nobody, a refugee expelled from Europe, writing obscure pamphlets and speeches, barely noticed outside a small circle of fellow travelers. Where had he come...

"Pursued from country to country by Stalin's GPU agents, Leon Trotsky found refuge in Mexico City in 1937. There he encountered the fire and splendor of the artist Frida Kahlo who, with her husband Diego Rivera, welcomed Trotsky and his wife, Natalia into their home, the Casa Azul."--Jacket.