An edition of Trotsky: A Biography
(2009)
Trotsky
A Biography
by Robert Service
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Trotsky is perhaps the most intriguing and, given his prominence, the most understudied of the Soviet revolutionaries. Using new archival sources including family letters, party and military correspondence, confidential speeches, and medical records, Service offers new insights into Trotsky.
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Communists, Soviet union, politics and government, 1917-1991, Soviet union, biography, Revolutionaries, soviet union, Statesmen, soviet union, Statesmen, biography, Exiles, Communism, soviet union, Russia (federation), politics and government, Biography, Politics and government, Communism, Revolutionaries, History, Statesmen, Exiles' writings, Trotsky, leon, 1879-1940People
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Table of Contents
pt. 1. 1879-1914
The family Bronstein
Upbringing
The schooling of Leiba
The young revolutionary
Love and prison
Siberian exile
"Iskra"
Cutting loose
The year 1905
Trial and punishment
Again the emigrant
Unifier
Special correspondent
pt. 2. 1914-1919
War on the war
Designs for revolution
Atlantic crossings
Nearly a Bolshevik
Threats and promises
Seizure of power
People's commissar
Trotsky and the Jews
Brest-Litovsk
Kazan and after
Almost the commander
Red victory
World revolution
pt. 3. 1920-1928
Images and the life
Peace and war
Back from the brink
Disputing about reform
The politics of illness
The Left opposition
Fighting for culture
Failing to succeed
Entourage and faction
Living with Trotsky
What Trotsky wanted
Last stand in Moscow
Alma-Ata
pt. 4. 1929-1940
Büyükada
Looking for revolutions
The writer
Russian connections
Europe south and north
Setting up in Mexico
The Fourth International
Trotsky and his women
"The Russian question"
Confronting the philosophers
The Second World War
Assassination
The keepers and the flame.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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