If, as Churchill famously said, Russia was "a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma," then at the dark core of the whole package resided the ever-unknowable Leon Trotsky. But Joshua Rubenstein's new biography goes a long way toward explicating the other Soviet founding father, delving deep into Trotsky's childhood to locate the formative experiences that rendered him a flawed, charismatic leader who had the misfortune to run afoul of Stalin.
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