pt. 1. Two lectures on Leon Trotsky's life and ideas

Toward a reconsideration of Trotsky's place in the history of the 20th century

Leon Trotsky, Soviet historiography, and the fate of classical Marxism

pt. 2. The post-Soviet school of historical falsification : a review of two biographies of Leon Trotsky by Professors Geoffrey Swain and Ian Thatcher

Stalin's terror and the political lie

Swain, Thatcher, and the myth of Trotsky

Thatcher's method of historical falsification

When lies are told against history

pt. 3. Robert Service's contribution to the falsification of history

Robert Service's Trotsky

Political biography and the historical lie

Trotsky's enduring significance

The biographer as character assassin.

Trotsky, Leon, 1879-1940 > Political and social views.

Trotsky, Leon, 1879-1940 > Influence.

Revolutionaries > Soviet Union > Biography.

Statesmen > Soviet Union > Biography.

Biography > Political aspects.

Historiography > Political aspects.

Communism > Historiography.

Soviet Union > History > Errors, inventions, etc.

Soviet Union > Historiography.