Trotsky by Robert Service

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Trotsky by Robert Service

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Summary

A brilliant reexamination of Leon Trotsky by the bestelling and critically acclaimed author of Lenin: A Biography, Stalin: A Biography and Comrades

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Trotsky by Robert Service

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.

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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, Blood on the Snow, Stalin: A Biography and Comrades: A History of World Communism, as well as many other books on Russia's past and present. Trotsky: A Biography was awarded the Duff Cooper Prize. Married with four children, he lives in London.
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ISBN 13 9781405053464
ISBN 10 1405053461
Title Trotsky
Author Robert Service
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Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Pan Macmillan
Year published 2009-10-16
Number of pages 624
Prizes Winner of Duff Cooper Prize 2010 (UK)
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