Trotsky: The Eternal RevolutionaryAbsorbing I now place Volkogonovs great biographical triptych [Stalin, Lenin, Trotsky] at the top of my reading list on the Russian revolution. Niall Ferguson, Sunday Times Following Stalin (1991) and Lenin (1994), Dmitri Vokogonov completes his grand trilogy of biographies of the giants who dominated the history of the Soviet Union. A dynamic and inspiring public speaker, military hero of the Russian civil war, and a brilliant organiser and theorist,