Trotsky: A Biography

The widely acclaimed biography of Trotsky by one of the greatest Russian history experts and bestselling author of Stalin, Lenin and Comrades. 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.

• | Author: Robert Service
• | Publisher: Pan Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Apr 16, 2010
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780330439695
• | ISBN-10: 0330439693