Publisher's Synopsis
The most complete version ever published in any language, restored over a ten year period in consultation with the Harvard archives and the English, French and Russian editions, with a 30% increase in text over the 1946 original edition. On 20th August 1940 Trotsky's life was brutally ended when a Stalinist agent brought an ice pick crashing down on his head. Among the works left unfinished was the second part of his biography of Stalin.