My Life: An Attempt at an Autobiography

Leon Trotsky

ISBN 10: 0873481445 / ISBN 13: 9780873481441

Published by Pathfinder Press, 1970

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: My Life: An Attempt at an Autobiography
• Publisher: Pathfinder Press
• Publication Date: 1970
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0873481445
• ISBN 13: 9780873481441
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 24 ounces

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Synopsis

Autobiographical account by a leader of the October 1917 Russian revolution, the Soviet Red Army, and the battle initiated by Lenin against the Stalinist bureaucracy.

“Whatever may be thought of Trotsky as a theorist or a revolutionary, there is no denying his unusual literary powers.…The narrative does not lag.” —New York Times

About the Author

Leon Trotsky (1879–1940) was part of the central leadership forged by Bolshevik party leader V.I. Lenin that organized the revolutionary conquest of power by workers and peasants in Russia in October 1917. Trotsky commanded the Red Army, was a founding leader of the Communist International, and of communists in the Soviet Union and worldwide who fought to continue Lenin’s proletarian internationalist course. He continued that struggle from exile after being deported in 1929. Trotsky was murdered in Mexico in 1940 by Stalin’s secret police.

Since the early 1930s Pathfinder and its predecessors have translated, published, and kept in print Trotsky’s principal works. These include:
The Third International after Lenin (1996)
In Defense of Marxism (1995)
History of the Russian Revolution (1980)
The Revolution Betrayed (1972)
The First Five Years of the Communist International (two volumes, 1972)
Writings of Leon Trotsky, 1929–40 (14 volumes, 1972–79)