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My Life

by Leon Trotsky · 1929

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Autobiographical account by a leader of the October 1917 Russian revolution, the Soviet Red Army, and the battle initiated by Lenin against the Stalinist bureaucracy.

Subject
biographypoliticshistory
Themes
politics
Setting
20th centuryRussiabiographySoviet UnionEastern Europe
Audience
adult
Length
epic · 604 pages

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