TROTSKY FOR BEGINNERS

Exceptional revolutionary orator, writer, politician, prisoner, historian, organizer of the Red Army, military tactician, Lenin's obvious successor, paralyzed intellectual, tragic loser, exile, victim of an ice-pick-wielding assassin -- here is one of the great and enigmatic figures of our century. Through Trotsky's life, this documentary cartoon book plunges us into the world of the Russian Revolution and raises essential questions about Trotsky then, and what we think of him now.