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.
Publisher : Pan; Main Market edition (16 April 2010)
Language : English
Paperback : 656 pages
ISBN-10 : 0330439693
ISBN-13 : 978-0330439695
Reading age : 18 years and up
Dimensions : 12.7 x 3.81 x 20.32 cm
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