About the Program
Bertrand Patenaude, research fellow at the Hoover Institution, recounts the life of Red Army chief Leon Trotsky. Mr. Patenaude examines Trotsky's political career, from his ascendancy as a young Marxist to a Bolshevik leader, whose feud with Joseph Stalin led to his being targeted for assassination during his exile in Mexico. Bertrand Patenaude discusses his book at Kepler's Books in Menlo Park, California.