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Author
Publisher
Delphinium Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Reimagines the life and mission of Ramon Mercader, the Spanish nationalist recruited to murder Leon Trotsky, following Ramon as he is torn between love and duty when he develops feelings for the woman he must seduce to get to Trotsky.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Colección Maxi volume 027/1
Publisher
Tusquets Editores
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Español
Description
In 2004, Iván, a Havana journalist and veterinarian's assistant, recalls a man with two beautiful Russian dogs he befriended in 1977 who told him unknown details about the death of Trotsky and about Ramón Mercader, the assassin.
Author
Publisher
Pathfinder
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
The only Bolshevik leader to write his memoirs, Leon Trotsky published this remarkable book in 1930, the first year of a perilous, decade-long exile that ended with his assassination in Mexico. Expelled from the Communist party and deported from the Soviet Union, the former People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs recalled his lifelong struggle in the world of revolutionary politics. In addition to his firsthand accounts of the early intrigues within...
Author
Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
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Description
1937. Perseguidos por el fascismo y las fuerzas estalinistas, León Trotsky y su esposa, Natalia Sedova, llegan a México como exiliados. Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo les ofrecen refugio en la Casa Azul y los acogen en su círculo de intelectuales y artistas. Tras años de peligros y disputas, la hospitalidad de la pareja mexicana se traduce en esperanza para los Trotsky; sin embargo, la paz de León se ve turbada por los extravagantes encantos de Frida,...
7) The Trotsky
Publisher
New Video Group
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Leon Bronstein is a young man who has made the discovery that his birth name is the same as that of Leon Trotsky, the celebrated Russian revolutionary and socialist theorist. This coincidence leads Leon to believe that he is the reincarnation of Trotsky and it is his destiny to follow his path as closely as possible, which is a bit difficult when you have rich parents and attend an upscale private school in Montreal.
Publisher
Film Ideas
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
" 'The Blue House' located in Mexico City, is the home where Frida Kahlo was born (1907) and would die (1954). She is surrounded not only by painter Diego Rivera, but also by Leon Trotsky, André Breton, Sergei Eisenstein, Pablo Neruda, Waldo Frank, Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, Vassily Kandinsky, etc. Our film recalls the great adventures of 'The Blue House', its parties, its manifestoes, it artists, its freewheeling love affairs, its betrayals...as...
Author
Publisher
The Free Press
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
At last, based on full access to Soviet and Western archives, as well as interviews with surviving members of the Trotsky family and others, Dmitri Volkogonov offers a breakthrough reinterpretation. No source is ignored: Volkogonov even interviewed a member of Stalin's NKVD hit squad that assassinated Trotsky. Through his access to internal memos sent between Trotsky, Lenin, and Stalin, we learn of the blistering intensity of the animus between Stalin...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tusquets Editores México
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Español
Description
"A gripping novel about the assassination of Leon Trotsky in Mexico City in 1940"--
"En 2004, a la muerte de su mujer, Iván, aspirante a escritor y ahora responsable de un paupérrimo gabinete veterinario de La Habana, vuelve los ojos hacia un episodio de su vida, ocurrido en 1977, cuando conoció a un enigmítico hombre que paseaba por la playa en compañía de dos hermosos galgos rusos. Tras varios encuentros, 'el hombre que amaba a los perros'...
Author
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Leon Trotsky was a leading participant in Russia's 1917 Revolution and its steps toward building the world's first workers' democracy. A few years later he became a prime target and scapegoat during Stalin's bloody rise to power, which replaced workers' control with dictatorship. There have been many biographies of this remarkable man, but none provides as much insight into Trotsky's experience as both a leader of, and outcast exile from, the Russian...
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