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.
| ISBN | 1405053461 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | ISBN13 | 9781405053464
(What's this?) | | Pages | 624 | | Publisher | Pan Macmillan | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Macmillan | | Height (mm) | 234 | | Format | Hardback | | Width (mm) | 153 | | Publication date | 16 Oct 2009 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY | 947.0841092 | |
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| | | Introduction | | 1 |
| Pt. 1 | | 1879-1913 | | 11 |
| Pt. 2 | | 1914-1919 | | 135 |
| Pt. 3 | | 1920-1928 | | 259 |
| Pt. 4 | | 1929-1940 | | 379 |
| | | Notes | | 503 |
| | | Select Bibliography | | 564 |
| | | Index | | 579 |
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