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Author Service, Robert, 1947-

Title Trotsky : a biography / Robert Service.

Imprint Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009.

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 Pittsburg 2nd Fl Biography  BIO Trotsky    ---  Available
Description xxii, 600 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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 -- Buyukada -- 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.
Source NBK 11/9 PPL
Subject Trotsky, Leon, 1879-1940.
Revolutionaries -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
Statesmen -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
Exiles -- Russia -- Biography.
Communism -- Soviet Union -- History.
Russia -- Politics and government -- 1894-1917.
Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1917-1936.
ISBN 9780674036154
0674036158

 
    
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