''My Life: An Attempt at an Autobiography'' (
Russian
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: ''Моя Жизнь'') is the name of the
Russia
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n revolutionary
Communist leader
Leon Trotsky
Lev Davidovich Bronstein. ( – 21 August 1940), better known as Leon Trotsky; uk, link= no, Лев Давидович Троцький; also transliterated ''Lyev'', ''Trotski'', ''Trotskij'', ''Trockij'' and ''Trotzky''. (), was a Russian ...
's autobiography. The book was first published in 1930 and was written in the first year of Trotsky's exile in
Turkey
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. It covers the time from his youth, through the
Revolution of 1905, the
Revolution of 1917
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, the
Russian Civil War
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up to his struggle against
Stalinism and eventual expulsion from the
Communist Party
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.
The Russian/Soviet historian
Dmitri Volkogonov
Dmitri Antonovich Volkogonov (russian: Дми́трий Анто́нович Волкого́нов; 22 March 1928 – 6 December 1995) was a Soviet and Russian historian and colonel general who was head of the Soviet military's psychological warf ...
claims that Trotsky's "''My Life'', must hold pride of place as a work of remarkable self-analysis, as well as imaginative history. Although he wrote it at the relatively early age of forty-eight, soon after his deportation, his life up to then had been eventful enough to merit recording."
Before he settled with the simple title ''My Life'', Trotsky tried out several titles:
[Dmitri Volkogonov "Trotsky: The Eternal Revolutionary", page 312. ]
*''Half A Century (1879 - 1929)''
*''An Experiment in Autobiography''
*''Flood Tides and Ebb Tides: The Autobiography of a Revolutionary''
*''In the Service of the Revolution: An Experiment in Autobiography''
*''A Life of Struggle: The Autobiography of a Revolutionary''
*''To Live is to Struggle: The Autobiography of a Revolutionary''
See also
*
List of books by Leon Trotsky
Footnotes
External links
''My Life''the whole book at the
Marxists Internet Archive
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