Trotsky

by Service, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780674036154
• ISBN10: 0674036158
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-11-23
• Publisher: Belknap Pr

Summary

This illuminating portrait of Leon Trotsky sets the record straight on the common misconceptions about the man and his legacy. Completing his masterful trilogy on the founding figures of the Soviet Union, Service delivers an authoritative biography.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Maps	p. xi
Preface	p. xix
A Note on Usages	p. xxiii
Introduction	p. 1
1879-1913
The family Bronstein	p. 11
Upbringing	p. 20
Schooling	p. 30
The Young Revolutionary	p. 39
Love And Prison	p. 50
Siberian Exile	p. 58
Iskra	p. 68
Cutting Loose	p. 78
The Year 1905	p. 87
Trial And Punishment	p. 96
Again The Emigrant	p. 105
Unifier	p. 114
Special Correspondent	p. 123
1914-1919
War On The War	p. 135
Designs For Revolution	p. 143
Atlantic Crossings	p. 151
Nearly A Bolshevik	p. 161
Threats And Promises	p. 170
Seizure Of Power	p. 180
People’s Commissar	p. 189
Trotsky And The Jews	p. 199
Brest-Litovsk	p. 208
Kazan And After	p. 217
Almost The Commander	p. 227
Red Victory	p. 237
World Revolution	p. 247
1920-1928
Images And The Life	p. 259
Peace And War	p. 267
Back From The Brink	p. 277
Disputing About Reform	p. 285
The Politics Of Illness	p. 294
The Left Opposition	p. 303
On The Cultural Front	p. 313
Failing To Succeed	p. 322
Entourage And Faction	p. 332
Living With Trotsky	p. 341
What Trotsky Wanted	p. 349
Last Stand In Moscow	p. 358
Alma-Ata	p. 366
1929-1940
Buyukada	p. 379
Looking For Revolutions	p. 388
The Writer	p. 398
Russian Connections	p. 409
Europe South And North	p. 418
Setting Up In Mexico	p. 428
The Fourth International	p. 437
Trotsky And His Women	p. 446
&rsquoThe Russion Question&Isquo	p. 455
Confronting The Philosophers	p. 465
The Second World War	p. 474
Assassination	p. 483
The Keepers And The Flame	p. 492
Notes	p. 503
Select Bibliography	p. 564
Index	p. 579
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