Trotsky : a biography / Robert Service.
Trotsky : a biography / Robert Service.
By
:
Service, Robert.
Publication Date
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2009-2010
Publication Information
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London : Pan Books,
Physical Description
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xxii, 600 p., [24] p. of plates : col. ill., maps.
Subject Term
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Communists -- Biography.
Revolutionaries -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
Statesmen -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
Geographic Term
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Soviet Union -- History -- 1917-1936.
Bibliography Note
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary
:
Revolutionary practitioner, theorist, factional chief, sparkling writer, 'ladies' man' (e.g., his affair with Frieda Kahlo), icon of the Revolution, anti-Jewish Jew, philosopher of everyday life, grand seigneur of his household, father and hunted victim, Trotsky lived a brilliant life in extraordinary times. Robert Service draws on hitherto unexamined archives and on his profound understanding of Russian history to draw a portrait of the man and his legacy, revealing that though his followers have represented Trotsky as a pure revolutionary soul and a powerful intellect unjustly hounded into exile by Stalin and his henchmen. The reality is very different, as this masterful and compelling biography reveals.
Language
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English
ISBN
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9780330439695
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St. John's - A.C. Hunter (SJH) | Adult Bio | Adult Biography | B T75S | Checked out |