Together with Lenin, Trotsky was one of the architects of the Russian Revolution. A great orator, a skillful military tactician, a gifted historian and an unpredictable cultural throrist, Trotsky was brought down by inner-party factionalism, exiled and then executed by Stalin. ntroducing trotsky and Marxism shows how Trotsky's prophetic inshights foresaw the rise of Hitler and the price humanity would hav to pay.