Trotsky

Trotsky by Rick Geary  112 pp.

This book is part of a series of graphic biographies done by Geary and others. For being a small book, it covers a lot of material. Trotsky's childhood is compacted into two pages. The rest of the book progresses through the development of his political ideals, his part in the Russian Revolution, his on again-off again work with Lenin, and his constant battles with Stalin over ideological differences until his death in Mexico at the hands of a Stalinist agent. One can only wonder what USSR would have been like had Trotsky been in power after Lenin's death, rather than the dictatorship that Stalin created. As usual, Geary has done excellent research and includes references in the back of the book. His pen & ink artwork is detailed and really makes the somewhat dry material easy to read.