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Article: Stalin's Nemesis: The Exile and Murder of Leon Trotsky.(Book review)
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- August 1, 2009
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Stalin's Nemesis
The Exile and Murder of Leon Trotsky
Bertrand M. Patenaude
Faber & Faber 352pp 20 [pounds sterling]
ISBN 978 0571228751
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It is, alas, rare to find a book by a heavyweight American academic historian that zips along with the pace and drama of a first-rate political thrilller, but Bertrand Patenaude's study of the fatal duel between the two terrible rival titans of Russia's revolution is just such a work.
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... ... he died a few hours later, Trotsky, Stalin's fiercest rival, disappeared ... sponsored biographies of Stalin and Trotsky. For years, Mikhail Gorbachev ... been named after him." But Trotsky began to battle Stalin for power, and, in losing ...
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