Trotsky : a biography

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Label

Trotsky : a biography

Title remainder

a biography

Statement of responsibility

Robert Service

Creator

• Service, Robert, 1947-

Subject

• Revolutionaries -- Soviet Union -- Biography
• Trotsky, Leon, 1879-1940
• Russia -- Politics and government -- 1894-1917
• Exiles -- Russia -- Biography
• Statesmen -- Soviet Union -- Biography
• Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1917-1936
• Communism -- Soviet Union -- History

Genre

• Biography

Language

eng

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

Biography type

individual biography

Cataloging source

DLC

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• plates

Index

index present

LC call number

DK254.T6

LC item number

S427 2009

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography