Trotskii. Demon revoliutsii - Volkogonov Dmitrii Antonovich

He was praised as a "flaming revolutionary," "the leader of the Red Army" and a "prophet of communism." He is cursed as the executioner of Russia, the mastermind of the Red Terror and the "demon of the revolution." One of the organizers of the October coup, the Chairman of the Revvoen Council of the Republic, a drug lord, a close ally of Lenin, considered his main heir during the Civil War, Trotsky fought for his beliefs fanatically and mercilessly and raved "World Revolution" for the rest of the day. Even after losing the struggle for power to Stalin, expelled from the USSR (where the word "Trotskyism" became not just the most terrible profanity, but a death sentence), the "demon of the revolution" did not accept defeat, did not cowardly, did not shut up, continuing to stigmatize Stalin until his own death at the hands of an NKVD agent, and already with a broken ice pick head managed to cling to the killer with his teeth, not allowing him to escape. This sensational book, which broke the conspiracy of silence around Trotsky's name, is still his best biography. Being personally acquainted with the Chekists who carried out its liquidation, first gaining access to the top-secret intelligence correspondence of NKVD officers embedded in Trotsky's entourage, Dmitry Volkogonov told the whole truth about the bright life and terrible death of the chief Stalin's enemy.