Trotsky : A Biography
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Paperback English
By (author) Robert Service


Categories: Biography: Historical, Political & Military European History 20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000 Marxism & Communism


Description
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.


Product details

Format Paperback | 624 pages
Dimensions 132 x 198 x 41mm | 448g
Publication date 24 Jun 2010
Publisher Pan Macmillan
Imprint Pan Books
Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom
Language English
Edition Unabridged
Edition Statement Unabridged edition
Illustrations note Illustrations (some col.)
ISBN10 0330439693
ISBN13 9780330439695
Bestsellers rank 64,487