Trotsky: A Biography

Author: Robert Service

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Price : $29.99 AUD
ISBN : 9780330439695
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Imprint : Pan Books
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Weight (g) : 0.45
Publication date : April 2010
Dimensions : 197mm X 130mm X 40mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
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Author : Robert Service
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Language : English
Dewey classification : 947.084092
Reading Level : very good
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Description

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.

Awards

Winner of Duff Cooper Prize 2010 (UK).

Author description

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, Russia: Experiment with a People , Stalin: A Biography and Comrades: A History of World Communism, as well as many other books on Russia's past and present. Married with four children, he lives in London.

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