Leon Trotsky’s book “My Life” is an extraordinary literary work that sums up the activities of this truly outstanding person and politician in the country that he left in 1929. It presents the author's life path - from childhood to deportation from the USSR. “By the number of turns, surprises, acute conflicts, ascents and descents,” Trotsky writes in the preface, “one can say that my life was replete with adventures... Meanwhile, I have nothing in common with adventurers.” If we remember that Bernard Shaw himself called Trotsky “the king of pamphleteers,” then it will become clear that Trotsky’s “experience of autobiography” is a bright, fascinating, dramatic narrative of not only a witness, but also a direct “creator” of the history of the 20th century.