Book of the Week - Stalin's Nemesis
Nigel Anthony reads from Bertrand M Patenaude's account of the exile and subsequent assassination of Leon Trotsky
Book of the Week - Stalin's Nemesis - Episode 1
At the time of the Moscow trials, Leon Trotsky had been exiled from the Soviet Union. So, as 1937 dawned, he found himself on a Norwegian oil tanker bound for Mexico.
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Book of the Week - Stalin's Nemesis - Episode 2
Leon Trotsky, exiled from the Soviet Union and in fear of his life, settles into the Blue House, home of artist Diego Rivera and his wife Frida Kahlo, in a Mexican village.
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Book of the Week - Stalin's Nemesis - Episode 3
Trotsky has fallen out with Diego Rivera and has to move to a new house in Mexico City. His staff locate a run-down house in the Avenue Viena and begin to turn it into a fortress.
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Book of the Week - Stalin's Nemesis - Episode 4
In the early hours of May 24th 1940, Trotsky awakes to the sound of gunfire inside his fortress in Mexico City.
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Book of the Week - Stalin's Nemesis - Episode 5
On August 17th 1940 at 4.35pm, the iron doors of Trotsky's safe haven gave way and a man known to Trotsky as Frank Jacson, a Canadian businessman, was admitted to the patio.
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