Trotsky
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Trotsky
(Routledge historical biographies / series editor, Robert Pearce)
Routledge, 2003
- : hbk
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [218]-234) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This new biography provides a full account of Leon Trotsky's political life, based upon a wealth of primary sources, including previously unpublished material.
Ian D. Thatcher paints a new picture of Trotsky's standing in Russian and world history. Key myths about Trotsky's heroic work as a revolutionary, especially in Russia's first revolution of 1905 and the Russian Civil War, are thrown into question. Although Trotsky had a limited understanding of crucial contemporary events such as Hitler's rise to power, he was an important thinker and politician, not least as a trenchant critic of Stalin's version of communism.
Table of Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- Chapter 1 THE YOUNG REVOLUTIONARY, 1879-1907
- Chapter 2 THE FIGHT FOR UNITY, 1907-14
- Chapter 3 WAR AND REVOLUTION, 1914-17
- Chapter 4 DEFENDING THE REVOLUTION, 1917-21
- Chapter 5 THE REVOLUTION IN DECLINE, 1921-4
- Chapter 6 OPPOSITION AND DEFEAT, 1925-9
- Chapter 7 AGAINST STALINISM AND FASCISM, 1929-33
- Chapter 8 THE FINAL EXILE
- CONCLUSION
- NOTES
- FURTHER READING
- Index
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