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Trotsky: A Biography
Robert Service
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Description for Trotsky: A Biography
Paperback. A riveting new biography of Leon Trotsky from the critically acclaimed author of Lenin and Stalin Num Pages: 624 pages, Illustrations (some col.). BIC Classification: 1DVUA; BGH; HBJD; HBLW; JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 41. Weight in Grams: 470.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Pan
Number of pages
624
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
624
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780330439695
SKU
V9780330439695
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About Robert Service
Robert Service is a Fellow of the British Academy and of St Antony's College, Oxford. He has written several books, including the highly acclaimed Lenin: A Biography, Russia: Experiment with a People , Stalin: A Biography and Comrades: A History of World Communism, as well as many other books on Russia's past and present. Married with four children, he lives ... Read more
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