Joshua Rubenstein, Revolutionary's Road; A brilliant, ruthless ideologue who created the political machinery that would eventually turn against him. Wall Street Journal, Nov. 19, 2009.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704431804574538603020283292.html
(book review on
Robert Service, Trotsky: A Biography. Belknap/Harvard, 600 pages, $35)