Trotsky Léon

1936 · Best.-Nr. 002035 — Santiago de Chile: Ediciones Ercilla 1936. Softcover. First Chilean edition; 7 x 5 1/4; vol. I pp. 147 vol. II pp. 144 vol. III pp. 129 vol. IV pp. 130 vol. V pp. 144; beige wraps printed in blue green red purple and orange; chipping with some loss of paper to spine cover; small chip to lower corner of volume I; paper label to lower margin of spine; first volume illustrated with a portrait of the author; volume III lacking rear wrap else complete; good to very good condition. An early translation of Trotsky's autobiography it was written in the first year of his exile in Turkey in 1930. The five volumes covered his growing up and youth his life through the revolutions of 1905 and 1917 the period of the Russian Civil War his opposition to the the Stalinist Regime and his eventual expulsion from the Communist Party. This Chilean edition of his work coincided with Trotsky's arrival in Mexico which would be his second exile where he would initially live with artist Diego Rivera and his wife and fellow painter Frida Kahlo at their Blue House and would later be assassinated in 1940 by the alleged agent of Joseph Stalin Ramon Mercader. Santiago de Chile: Ediciones Ercilla paperback