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Stalin's Nemesis

Nigel Anthony reads from Bertrand M Patenaude's account of the exile and subsequent assassination of Leon Trotsky, who was outmanoeuvred by his great rival, Josef Stalin

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Broadcast Sat, 11 Jul 2009, 00:30 on BBC Radio 4 but not available on BBC iPlayer.

5/5. On August 17th 1940, a man known to Trotsky as Frank Jacson was admitted to his safe haven

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