Trotsky : a biography / Robert Service.
Service, Robert, 1947-
2009
DK254.T6 S427 2009 (Mapit)
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Title Trotsky : a biography / Robert Service.
Author Service, Robert, 1947-
ISBN 9780674036154
0674036158
Publication Details Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009.
Language English
Description xxii, 600 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm.
Call Number DK254.T6 S427 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification 947.084092 B
Summary Trotsky is perhaps the most intriguing and, given his prominence, the most understudied of the Soviet revolutionaries. Using new archival sources, Robert Service offers new insights. He discusses Trotsky's fractious relations with the leaders he was trying to unify; his attempt to disguise his political closeness to Stalin; and his role in the early 1920s as the progenitor of political and cultural Stalinism. Trotsky evinced a surprisingly glacial and schematic approach to making revolution. Service recounts Trotsky's role in the botched German revolution of 1923; his willingness to subject Europe to a Red Army invasion in the 1920s; and his assumption that peasants could easily be pushed onto collective farms. Although Trotsky's followers clung to the stubborn view of him as a pure revolutionary and a powerful intellect unjustly hounded into exile by Stalin, the reality is very different.--From publisher description.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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1879-1913
The family Bronstein
Upbringing
Schooling
The young revolutionary
Love and prison
Siberian exile
Iskra
Cutting loose
The year 1905
Trial and punishment
Again the emigrant
Unifier
Special correspondent
1914-1919
War on the war
Designs for revolution
Atlantic crossings
Nearly a Bolshevik
Threats and promises
Seizure of power
People's commissar
Trotsky and the Jews
Brest-Litovsk
Kazan and after
Almost the commander
Red victory
World revolution
1920-1928
Images and the life
Peace and war
Back from the brink
Disputing about reform
The politics of illness
The left opposition
On the cultural front
Failing to succeed
Entourage and faction
Living with Trotsky
What Trotsky wanted
Last stand in Moscow
Alma-Ata
1929-1940
Büyükada
Looking for revolutions
The writer
Russian connections
Europe south and north
Setting up in Mexico
The Fourth International
Trotsky and his women
"The Russian question"
Confronting the philosophers
The Second World War
Assassination
The keepers and the flame.

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