Trotsky: a graphic biography - Rick Geary

[Jane B]

This graphic novel is a great way to learn about Trotsky. I learnt more about Trotsky's life, Lenin and Stalin, the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks than I ever did in school when I studied it indepth! And I learnt that naughty old Trotsky had an affair with Frida Kahlo while he and his wife were living with Kahlo and Diego Rivera in Mexico after being expelled by Stalin from Russia in 1936. The impression I came away with of Trotsky after finishing this book was that of a thoughtful, principled and brilliant theorist and writer, who has been much maligned by the capitalist version of history.

[Lindach]

Sounds great. I shall add it to my reading list.