Title: Trotsky
Description: Historian Patenaude, a lecturer at Stanford, concentrates on the period from 1937, when Trotsky arrived in Mexico, to his assassination in 1940, painting a vivid portrait of Lenin's former right-hand man: his stormy relations with his flamboyant Mexican champion (and later enemy), artist Diego Rivera; his dealings with his American supporters; and the relentless efforts of Stalin's GPU to kill him.
Subjects: Exiles, Revolutionaries, Assassination, History, Biography, Statesmen, Trotsky, leon, 1879-1940, Revolutionaries, soviet union, Statesmen, soviet union, Statesmen, biography, Mexico, history, 1910-1946
Places: Soviet Union, Mexico
People: Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)
Time periods: 1910-1946