My Life is the autobiography of a revolutionary—one of the organizers of the October Revolution—who played a key role in creating the Red Army, Lev Trotsky (1879–1940). According to the author’s biographers, this book is among the best of the works by the former People’s Commissar and is of interest to a very wide readership. This “polemic” work contains important historical details of the October events and has a strongly anti-Stalinist bent: it is where the Soviet leader is described for the first time as an “outstanding mediocrity.” The book has been translated into many languages around the world; it was first legally published in the USSR in 1991.