There is a huge literature about Leon Trotsky, the eternal rebel, obsessed with the idea of world revolution, the frantic enemy of Stalin, the fanatical builder of the new Tower of Babel - the Communist International, but in only two colors - black or white. Georgy Chernyavsky, professor, doctor of historical sciences, for the first time attempted an objective biography of this rebellious figure: from youthful Marxist vacillations, protesting youth, exiles and escapes, foreign revolutionary training among anarchists, Mensheviks and Bolsheviks - to the second leader of the young proletarian state after Lenin, the tough People's Commissar for War, a furious debater, an oppositionist expelled from the country, a wanderer across countries and continents, who died in Mexico at the hands of an agent of his main enemy. In the book, Trotsky is presented in a multicolored palette. A practical fighter and an armchair theorist, a gentle husband and the hero of all kinds of love affairs, a despot and a man of reckless passions, a dandy and an angry denouncer of bourgeois comforts, but always, in his words, a Bolshevik-Leninist. Leon Trotsky, the author believes, remains in history the last great utopian communist. The book contains many new, unknown materials from archival funds of Russia, Ukraine, USA, Mexico and other countries.