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August 6, 2009
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BOOK OF THE DAY: CARLA KING reviews Stalin's Nemesis: The Exile and Murder of Leon Trotskyby Bertrand M Patenaude Faber Faber 340 pp, pound(s)20.

ALMOST THE first thing people think of in connection with Leon Trotsky is not his theory of permanent revolution or his brilliant leadership of the Red Army, but his death from an ice-pick in Mexico.

One is struck both by the incongruity of that instrument and by an enmity that extended across the globe to stand behind Ramon Mercader's blow: that of Joseph Stalin.

The book describes Trotsky's last years in Mexican exile from January 1937 to his murder on August 20th, 1940. The move to Mexico - occasioned by the refusal of any European government to ...

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