About the book: 2024 / Dmitry Volkogonov is a historian, philosopher, political scientist and politician. Before you is the most complete book about Leon Trotsky, the brave innovator of revolutionary change and socialism. This is the true story of the rise and fall of Stalin’s most famous opponent and the main theorist of permanent revolution. “I would say that Trotsky is a type of religious fanatic. Trotsky believed in Marxism; then believing in his Leninist interpretation,” Stalin’s former secretary Boris Bazhanov writes about him. Lev Davidovich is one of the most prominent party figures of his time, who had a significant influence on the consciousness of his contemporaries. What prompted him to organize the October Revolution? Why did he join the opposition to Stalin? Why was the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk concluded? How was a “new type” of man to be created? What is the “Trotsky paradox”? What did repression lead to during the Civil War? How did Trotsky end up in exile? The book by D. A. Volkogonov will answer these and many other questions.