
Stalin by Leon Trotsky (with previously unpublished material from the Harvard archives)
Background to the project Video introduction Editor’s note Interview with the editor On August 20, 1940, Trotsky’s life was brutally ended when a Stalinist agent brought an ice pick crashing down on his head. Among the works left unfinished was the second part of his biography of the man who ordered his assassination. Wellred Books proudly presents a work eighty years in the making, Leon Trotsky's unfinished masterpiece: Stalin. Painstakingly restored over a ten-year period In consultation with the Harvard archives and the English, French, and Russian editions The most complete version ever in any language 100,000 more words than the 1946 original - a 30% increase Malamuth's political distortions removed Trotsky’s Stalin is unique in Marxist literature in that it attempts to explain some of the most decisive events of the 20th century, not just in terms of epoch-making economic and social transformations, but in the individual psychology of one of the protagonists in a great histo