
Trotsky: A Biography (Robert Service)
The Worthy House (Charles Haywood)
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Trotsky's Last Words
Trotsky was born Libra Bronstein in southern Ukraine in 1879. At age 16 he fell in with bad company and became a Marxist true believer. In 1898 when he was 19 Bronstein and all the other members of his group were arrested for revolutionary agitation. He quickly discovered the genius for writing and polemic that set him apart for his entire life.
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