Paul Le Blanc is Professor of History at La Roche College, Pennsylvania, and the author of Unfinished Leninism: The Rise and Return of a Revolutionary Doctrine (2014).
'Even-handed but sympathetic, learned but not overbearing, Le Blanc's expert study leads a reader through the complexities of twentieth-century history and the vicissitudes of revolution, while also painting an intense, and at times heartbreaking, portrait of a key player and critic of capitalism and real-existing Communism. Le Blanc provides a sharp assessment of the influence and actions of Trotsky and the Trotskyists, against the backdrop of Hitler's rise to power and the purges unleashed by Trotsky's nemesis, Stalin.' - Esther Leslie, Professor of Political Aesthetics in the School of English and Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London