Trotsky / Ian D. Thatcher.
Publisher's description: Leon Trotsky has always aroused strong passions-historians love and hate him in equal measure. This new biography provides a full account of his political life, based upon a wealth of primary sources, including previously unpublished material. Ian D. Thatcher paints a n...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2003.
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| Series: | Routledge historical biographies.
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| Summary: | Publisher's description: Leon Trotsky has always aroused strong passions-historians love and hate him in equal measure. This new biography provides a full account of his political life, based upon a wealth of primary sources, including previously unpublished material.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. This study provides a clear and accessible introduction to Trotsky's life and thought for anyone interested in twentieth-century Russian and World History. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 240 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-234) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0203987098 9780203987094 9780415232500 0415232503 9780415232517 0415232511 9786610113958 6610113955 9781134572151 1134572158 9781134572106 1134572107 9781134572144 113457214X 1283837595 9781283837590 1280113952 9781280113956 |