Expectation revolutionary orator, writer, politician, prisoner, historian, organizer of the Red Army, military tactician, Lenin's obvious successor, paralyzed intellectual, tragic loser, exile, victim, of an ice-pick-wielding assassin - here is one of the great and enigmatic figures of our century.
Through Trotsky's life, this documentary cartoon book plunges us into the world of the Russian Revolution and raises essential questions about Trotsky then, and waht we think of him now. Phil Evans's witty drawings combine with tariq Ali's informative text and Trotksy's own words, in an unforgettable portrait.