Description
| Product ID: | 9780330439695 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Trotsky |
| Subtitle: | A Biography |
| Authors: | Author: Robert Service |
| Page Count: | 656 |
| Subjects: | Biography: historical, political and military, Biography: historical, political & military, European history, History, Far-left political ideologies and movements, European history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Marxism & Communism, Russia |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A riveting new biography of Leon Trotsky from the critically acclaimed author of Lenin and Stalin 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Pan Books |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2010-04-16 |