- List of Illustrations
- Maps
- Preface
- A Note on Usages
- Introduction
- I. 1879–1913
- The Family Bronstein
- Upbringing
- Schooling
- The Young Revolutionary
- Love and Prison
- Siberian Exile
- Iskra
- Cutting Loose
- The Year 1905
- Trial and Punishment
- Again the Emigrant
- Unifier
- Special Correspondent
- II. 1914–1919
- War on the War
- Designs for Revolution
- Atlantic Crossings
- Nearly a Bolshevik
- Threats and Promises
- Seizure of Power
- People’s Commissar
- Trotsky and the Jews
- Brest-Litovsk
- Kazan and After
- Almost the Commander
- Red Victory
- World Revolution
- III. 1920–1928
- Images and the Life
- Peace and War
- Back from the Brink
- Disputing about Reform
- The Politics of Illness
- The Left Opposition
- On the Cultural Front
- Failing to Succeed
- Entourage and Faction
- Living with Trotsky
- What Trotsky Wanted
- Last Stand in Moscow
- Alma-Ata
- IV. 1929–1940
- Bü Yü Kada
- Looking for Revolutions
- The Writer
- Russian Connections
- Europe South and North
- Setting Up in Mexico
- The Fourth International
- Trotsky and His Women
- ‘The Russian Question’
- Confronting the Philosophers
- The Second World War
- Assassination
- The Keepers and the Flame
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Trotsky
A Biography
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- A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2010
- 2009 Duff Cooper Prize
- An Independent Best History Book of 2009
- A New Yorker Reviewers’ Favorite Nonfiction Book of 2009
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