The prophet - Isaac Deutscher

Few political figures of the twentieth century have aroused such
intensities of fierce admiration and reactionary fear as Russian
revolutionary Leon Trotsky. His extraordinary life and extensive
writings have left an indelible mark on the revolutionary consciousness.
Yet there was once a danger that his life and influence would be
relegated to the footnotes of history.

Published over the course
of ten years, beginning in 1954, Deutscher's magisterial three-volume
biography turned back the tide of Stalin's propaganda, and has since
been praised by everyone from Tony Blair to Graham Greene. In this
definitive work, now reissued in a single volume, Trotsky's true stature
emerges as the most heroic, and ultimately tragic, character of the
Russian Revolution.