Introducing Trotsky and Marxism by Tariq Ali

Introducing Trotsky and Marxism by Tariq Ali

Together with Lenin, Leon Trotsky was one of the architects of the Russian Revolution. A great orator, a skilful military tactician, a gifted historian and an unpredictable cultural theorist, Trotsky was brought down by inner-party factionalism, exiled and then executed by Stalin. This book shows how Trotsky's prophetic insights foresaw the rise of Hitler and the price humanity would have to pay. Even before the Second World War he predicted the Holocaust. He also foresaw the events in eastern Europe following the collapse of the Communist bloc, predicting in 1936 that the Stalinist system in Russia was merely a transitional state which would either move towards socialism or revert to capitalism. Tariq Ali and Phil Evans give us an irreverent but sympathetic look at the enigma of Trotsky, in a timely reminder of a major figure of 20th century politics.

Tariq Ali is a writer and a filmmaker. He has written five novels and over a dozen books on world history and politics. His latest is the acclaimed The Clash of Fundamentalism: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity. he is currently writing Bush in Babylon: Recolonizing Iraq. Howard Brenton was born in 1942 in Portsmouth, where his father was a policeman and a lay preacher. He had written several plays for the Royal Court, the Royal Shakespeare Company, and the National Theatre before Romans in Britain (1980) was famously the cause of a failed prosecution by moral crusaders.

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ISBN 13	9781840461558
ISBN 10	1840461551
Titel	Introducing Trotsky and Marxism
Autor	Tariq Ali
Serie	Introducing
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Icon Books
Erscheinungsjahr	2000-08-01
Seitenanzahl	176
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