My Life An Attempt at an Autobiography

Autobiographical account by a leader of the October 1917 Russian revolution, the Soviet Red Army, and the battle initiated by Lenin against the Stalinist bureaucracy.'One of the best books of reminiscences.' [Trotsky's] capacity for not measuring the historical process by the yardstick of his personal fate ? makes this book so much better than the unconvincing apologias of kings and statesmen.' [The] author is obviously a born writer.'?The Nation