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TROTSKY, Leon (1879–1940). Moia Zhizn [My Life]. Berlin: Izd–vo “Granit”, 1930. 2 volumes, 8vo. Original publisher’s drab wrappers printed in red and black (some creasing to extremities, spine ends a bit chipped, spines also toned, some separation along upper joint with repairs to spine panel in Volume I); quarter morocco folding case. FIRST EDITION, an autobiography of the Communist revolutionary and leader who helped ignite the Russian Revolution of 1917 and who helped build the Red Army afterward. In his autobiography, Trotsky describes the 1905 and 1917 revolutions, the Russian Civil War, Trotsky’s split with Stalin, and his eventual expulsion from the Communist Party. In 1940, Trotsky was assassinated in Mexico by an agent of the Soviet Union secret police, using a mountaineering ice ax to deliver the final blow to who was considered the most brilliant intellect of the Communist Revolution.