Trotsky : a biography / Robert Service.
Publication details: London : Pan, 2010.Description: xxii, 600 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), ports. (some col.) ; 20 cmISBN:- 9780330439695 (pbk.)
- Trotskij, Lev, 1879-1940
- Trotsky, Leon
- Trotsky, Leon, 1879-1940
- Trotsky, Leon
- Trotsky, Leon, 1879-1940
- 1894 - 1936
- Politics and government
- Revolutionaries
- Exiles -- Russia -- Biography
- Communism -- Soviet Union -- History
- Communism
- Exiles
- Statesmen
- Revolutionaries -- Soviet Union -- Biography
- Statesmen -- Soviet Union -- Biography
- Biography
- Communists
- Revolutionärer -- Sovjetunionen -- biografi
- Statsmän -- Sovjetunionen -- biografi
- Communists -- Soviet Union -- Biography
- Communists -- Soviet Union -- Biography
- Russia
- Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1917-1936
- Russia -- Politics and government -- 1894-1917
- Soviet Union -- History -- 1917-1936
- Soviet Union
- Ryssland -- politik och förvaltning -- historia -- 1894-1917
- Sovjetunionen -- politik och förvaltning -- historia -- 1917-1936
- Soviet Union -- 1917-1936 -- History
- Soviet Union -- History -- 1917-1936
- 947.0841092 22
- DK254.T6 S427 2009b
- K835.127=5
- "Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize 2009" -- Cover.
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Biography | 947.084 SER | Available | 069281 |
Originally published: London: Macmillan, 2009.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Revolutionary practitioner, sparkling writer and icon of the revolution, Leon Trotsky lived a brilliant life in extraordinary times. Robert Service draws on hitherto unexamined archives to draw a portrait of the man and his legacy.
"Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize 2009" -- Cover.