Trotsky

¸±±êÌâ: A Biography

ISBN: 9780674036154

³ö°æÉç: Belknap Press

³ö°æÄê: 2009-11-23

Ò³Êý: 648

¶¨¼Û: USD 25.50

×°Ö¡: Hardcover

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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.