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The Death of Trotsky | Stalin, Espionage and Assassination – with Josh Ireland
In this episode of History Book Buffs, Antonia Senior talks to historian Josh Ireland about his gripping book The Death of Trotsky, which tells the extraordinary story of how Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin hunted down his greatest rival, Leon Trotsky.
After the Russian Revolution, Trotsky seemed destined to inherit power from Vladimir Lenin. Instead, Stalin outmanoeuvred him politically, forced him into exile, and then spent years trying to have him killed.
Eventually Trotsky ended up in Mexico, surrounded by spies, assassins and political fanatics. There, in 1940, Stalin’s agents finally…
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