Trotsky - The Revolutionary Without Borders

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bilingual edition French/English (machine translation) Back cover text: Bloodthirsty killer for some, agent of the tsarist police, Hitler or the FBI for Stalin and his followers, Lev Davidovich Bronstein, better known as Leon Trotsky (1879-1940), has fueled polemics, hatred and fears for decades. Why does his ghost still haunt many minds in France and elsewhere? Using testimonies, often unpublished, from the precious Russian archives, Jean-Jacques Marie insists on the political clairvoyance of the founder of the Red Army and sees him as a precursor of the consequences of globalization and the limits of democracy. Neither hagiography nor indictment, this fascinating investigation allows us to rub shoulders with an intimate and secretive Trotsky, for whom books and ideas mattered more than his fellow men.