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Trotsky : a biography
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Title
Trotsky : a biography / Robert Service.
ISBN
9780674036154
0674036158
Published
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009.
Physical Description
xxii, 600 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 24, 2009
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1879-1913
The family Bronstein
Upbringing
Schooling
The young revolutionary
Love and prison
Siberian exile
Iskra
Cutting loose
The year 1905
Trial and punishment
Again the emigrant
Unifier
Special correspondent
1914-1919
War on the war
Designs for revolution
Atlantic crossings
Nearly a Bolshevik
Threats and promises
Seizure of power
People's commissar
Trotsky and the Jews
Brest-Litovsk
Kazan and after
Almost the commander
Red victory
World revolution
1920-1928
Images and the life
Peace and war
Back from the brink
Disputing about reform
The politics of illness
The left opposition
On the cultural front
Failing to succeed
Entourage and faction
Living with Trotsky
What Trotsky wanted
Last stand in Moscow
Alma-Ata
1929-1940
Büyükada
Looking for revolutions
The writer
Russian connections
Europe south and north
Setting up in Mexico
The Fourth International
Trotsky and his women
"The Russian question"
Confronting the philosophers
The Second World War
Assassination
The keepers and the flame.
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