Publisher's Synopsis
On 20th August 1940 Trotsky was brutally murdered by a Stalinist agent, leaving his biography of Stalin unfinished. '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 psychology of one of the protagonists in a great historical drama. 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. The new edition brings together all the material available from the Trotsky archives in English and supplemented with additional material translated from Russian. It is the most complete version of the book ever published.
