Written in the first year of Trotsky's exile in Turkey, My Life contains the first authoritative account of the rise of a counterrevolutionary bureaucracy led by Joeph Stalin and of its brutal repression of the forces fighting to defend the communist program charted by Lenin. Trotsky's continuation of this struggle in exile is recounted in an Introduction by Joseph Hansen, Trotsky's secretary from 1937 until his assassination in 1940 by an agent of Stalin's secret police. Includes an Index.

(Key Words: Leon Trotsky, Joseph Stalin, Joseph Hansen, Autobiography, Russian Revolution, Russia, Vladimir Ilyich, Kamenev, Ivan Vasilyevich Gryeben, Communist International, Communist PartyDavyd Leontiyevich Bronstein, Lenin, Zinovievc, Vera Zasuitch, Sverdlov, Soviet Union, Nataliya Ivanovna Sedova,Politburo Nikolayev, Mensheviks, Lunacharsky, Karl Kautsky).