My Life

Marxism & Socialism

Since its publication in 1930, My Life has been recognized as one of the world's great autobiographies. Its literary qualities alone make it a valuable human document. But because of Trotsky's role as a central leader and, second to V. I. Lenin, the most prominent figure of the October 1917 revolution in Russia, the book has become a classic historical document as well.

Written in the first year of Trotsky's exile in Turkey, My Life tells the story of the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917, and of the struggle to consolidate the young workers and peasants government. It recounts the fight to defend the revolution's internationalist course, championed by Lenin, against the counterrevolutionary policies of growing petty-bourgeois social layers headed by Joseph Stalin.

About the author

Leon Trotsky was a key leader of the Russian Revolution. Forced into exile in 1928, Trotsky devoted the rest of his life to fighting the degeneration of the revolution and rise of a new dictatorial regime. Vilified and isolated, he fought an uncompromising battle with the Stalinist bureaucracy, defending the revolutionary and internationalist principles upon which the revolution was based. In 1940, he was murdered by an agent of the Stalinist regime.

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