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Trotsky published this extraordinary autobiography in 1930 while residing in Turkey, where Stalin had sent him into exile. Trotsky’s life is inseparably bound up with the great events of the first half of the 20th Century.
Trotsky’s struggle to defend the internationalist program of Marxism against the rising Stalinist bureaucracy in the Soviet Union comprises the final chapters of My Life. He traces the origins of Stalinism to the economic isolation and backwardness of Russia and the setbacks suffered by the international working class. Trotsky subsequently attributed the greatest significance to this aspect of his political work.
