Trotsky, a biography, Robert Service
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Trotsky, a biography, Robert Service
Language
eng
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Includes bibliographical references and index
resource.biographical
individual biography
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illustrationsplatesmaps
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index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
Trotsky
Nature of contents
bibliography
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319493419
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Robert Service
Sub title
a biography
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
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