Leon Trotsky was the intellectual firebrand of the Russian Revolution, the organizer of the Red Army, and the man who seemed destined to succeed Lenin. Instead, he was outmaneuvered by Stalin, expelled from the Soviet Union, and hunted across continents until an assassin with an ice axe found him in a Mexico City study in 1940.

This episode follows Trotsky from his role as architect of the October Revolution through his bitter power struggle with Stalin, his years of exile writing and organizing, and the chilling NKVD operation that tracked him to his final refuge.

• Trotsky's central role in the Bolshevik seizure of power and creation of the Red Army
• The factional war with Stalin that cost Trotsky everything
• His years of exile in Turkey, France, Norway, and Mexico
• The assassination by Ramon Mercader and Sta ...