Trotsky: a biography

by Service, Robert

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Full title :Trotsky : a biography / Robert Service.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2009.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, Mass
Language:eng
Publication Date:2009.

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Description:1 online resource (pages cm)

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oclc:on1036910670
LC Classification:DK254.T6
Dewey Decimal:947.084092

pt. 1. 1879-1914 -- The family Bronstein -- Upbringing -- The schooling of Leiba -- The young revolutionary -- Love and prison -- Siberian exile -- "Iskra" -- Cutting loose -- The year 1905 -- Trial and punishment -- Again the emigrant -- Unifier -- Special correspondent -- pt. 2. 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 -- pt. 3. 1920-1928 -- Images and the life -- Peace and war -- Back from the brink -- Disputing about reform -- The politics of illness -- The Left opposition -- Fighting for culture -- Failing to succeed -- Entourage and faction -- Living with Trotsky -- What Trotsky wanted -- Last stand in Moscow -- Alma-Ata -- pt. 4. 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 f…

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Biographies Communism Communism -- History. -- Soviet Union Communisme -- Histoire. -- URSS Exiles Exiles -- Biography. -- Russia History Hommes d'État -- Biographies. -- URSS Politics and government Revolutionaries Revolutionaries -- Biography -- Soviet … Russia Russia -- Politics and government -- 18… Russie -- Politique et gouvernement -- … Soviet Union Soviet Union -- Politics and government… Statesmen Statesmen -- Biography. -- Soviet Union Trotsky, Leon URSS -- Politique et gouvernement -- 19…