Trotsky by Robert Service
A Biography
A brisk, analytical biography traces the life of Lev Davidovich Bronstein — from his Jewish-Ukrainian provincial upbringing and rise as a brilliant organizer and orator to his central role in the 1917 Russian Revolution and as founder and commander of the Red Army during the Civil War. It follows his bitter power struggle with Stalin, expulsion and long exile, principled but often inflexible commitment to permanent revolution and internationalism, and his efforts to build opposition and the Fourth International; it also examines his personal contradictions—charisma and ruthless pragmatism, intellectual brilliance and political misjudgments—and concludes with his assassination in Mexico in 1940 and the contested legacy he left in communist and leftist movements. Drawing on archival material and eyewitness accounts, the portrait presents him as a towering, controversial figure whose ideas and personality profoundly shaped the course of 20th-century politics.
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- 2009
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- British
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- English
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