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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, 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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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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Trotsky: A Biography
2009, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
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Trotsky: a biography
2009, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
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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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