![]() How did it come about that Stalin, who began his political life as a revolutionary and a Bolshevik, ended as a tyrant and a monster? Was this something pre-ordained by genetic factors or childhood upbringing? Drawing on a mass of carefully assembled material from his personal archives and many other sources, Trotsky provides the answer to these questions. ![]() It is a fascinating study of the way in which the peculiar character of an individual, his personal traits, and psychology, interacts with great events. Trotsky’s Stalin is unique in Marxist literature in that it attempts to explain some of the most decisive events of the 20th century, not just in terms of epoch-making economic and social transformations, but in the individual psychology of one of the protagonists in a great historical drama. Malamuth's political distortions removed. ![]() 100,000 more words than the 1946 original - a 30% increase.The most complete version ever in any language.In consultation with the Harvard archives and the English, French, and Russian editions.Painstakingly restored over a ten-year period.Wellred Books proudly presents a work eighty years in the making, Leon Trotsky's unfinished masterpiece: Stalin. Among the works left unfinished was the second part of his biography of the man who ordered his assassination. ![]() ![]() On August 20, 1940, Trotsky’s life was brutally ended when a Stalinist agent brought an ice pick crashing down on his head. ![]()
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