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The Great Prince Died: A Novel about the Assassination of Trotsky
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by Bernard Wolfe

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On August 20, 1940, Marxist philosopher, politician, and revolutionary Leon Trotsky was attacked with an ice axe in his home in Coyoacn, Mexico. He died the next day.

In The Great Prince Died, Bernard Wolfe offers his lyrical, fictionalized account of Trotsky's assassination as witnessed through the eyes of an array of characters: the young American student helping to translate the exiled Trotsky's work (and to guard him), the Mexican police chief, a Rumanian revolutionary, the assassin and his handlers, a poor Mexican "pen," and Trotsky himself. Drawing on his own experiences working as the exiled Trotsky's secretary and bodyguard and mixing in digressions on Mexican culture, Stalinist tactics, and Bolshevik history, Wolfe interweaves fantasy and fact, delusion and journalistic reporting to create one of the great political novels of the past century.

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  • Title The Great Prince Died: A Novel about the Assassination of Trotsky
  • Author Bernard Wolfe
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition,
  • Pages 416
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press
  • Publication date 2015-09-14
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Maps
  • ISBN 9780226260648 / 022626064X
  • Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.98 x 6.07 x 0.64 in (22.81 x 15.42 x 1.63 cm)
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Trotsky, Leon, Revolutionaries - Soviet Union
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2014045149
  • Dewey Decimal Code 813.54

About the author

Bernard Wolfe (1915-85) was an American writer whose interests stretched from cybernetics to politics. He was the author of many books, including Limbo and The Late Risers, and coauthor of Mezz Mezzrow s classic memoir, Really the Blues."

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