Bronshtein in the Bronx (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781641296861)

A wry, thought-provoking fictional portrayal of ten pivotal weeks in the life of Leon Trotsky, inspired by the Russian revolutionary's exile in New York City in 1917, by the New York Times bestselling author of The Company

On Saturday, January 13, 1917, an ocean liner docks in New York Harbor. Among the disembarking emigrants is one Lev Davidovich Bronshtein--better known by his nom de guerre, Leon Trotsky. Bronshtein has been on the run for a decade, driven from his beloved Russia after escaping political exile in Siberia, his companion and two sons in tow. He lives and would die for a worker's revolution, at any cost--but is he ready to become an American? In the weeks leading up to the February Revolution that will see Lenin's Bolsheviks in power, Bronshtein haunts the streets, newspaper offices, and socialist gathering places of New York City, wrestling with the difficult questions of his personal revolutionary ideology, his place in his own family, his relationship to Lenin, and, above all, his conscience.

Master of espionage fiction Robert Littell brings to fictional life the ten weeks the world-famous revolutionary spent in the Bronx in this extraordinary meditation on purpose, passion, and the price of progress.

Author: Robert Littell
ISBN-10: 1641296860
ISBN-13: 9781641296861
Publisher: Soho Press
Language: English
Published: 01/28/2025
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 08/01/2024 pg. 2