Revolutionary practitioner, theorist, factional chief, sparkling writer, ‘ladies’ man’ (e.g., his affair with Frieda Kahlo), icon of the Revolution, anti-Jewish Jew, philosopher of everyday life, grand seigneur of his household, father and hunted victim, Trotsky lived a brilliant life in extraordinary times.
Robert Service draws on hitherto unexamined archives and on his profound understanding of Russian history to draw a portrait of the man and his legacy, revealing that though his followers have represented Trotsky as a pure revolutionary soul and a powerful intellect unjustly hounded into exile by Stalin and his henchmen The reality is very different, as this masterful and compelling biography reveals.
| Format |
Häftad |
| Omfång |
656 sidor |
| Språk |
Engelska |
| Förlag |
Pan Macmillan |
| Utgivningsdatum |
2010-04-16 |
| ISBN |
9780330439695 |
