Leon Trotsky - Writings in Exile

Informationen zum Autor Leon Trotsky was one of the most prominent leaders of the Russian Revolution in 1917. He was one of the primary contenders for the leadership of the Bolshevik Party in 1922 after the death of Lenin. When Stalin took this post, Trotsky swiftly concluded that the Revolution had been undermined. He was expelled from the Communist Party in 1927 and subsequently went into exile in Mexico, where he was assassinated by Soviet agents in 1940. Kunal Chattopadhyay is Professor at the Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University. He is the author of The Marxism of Leon Trotsky (2006). Paul Le Blanc is an activist and acclaimed American historian teaching at La Roche University, Pennsylvania. A conscientious objector to the Vietnam War, his politics were at odds with the establishment from a young age. He has written extensively on the history of the labor and socialist movements of the United States and Europe, including books on Lenin, Trotsky, Luxemburg and the importance of the revolutionary collective. Klappentext Examines the historic links between the civil rights movements in Northern Ireland and the US. Zusammenfassung Exiled in Mexico! Trotsky pens his most honest and insightful essays.

Product details

• Authors: Leon Trotsky, TROTSKY LEON
• Assisted by: Kunal Chattopadhyay (Editor), Chattopadhyay Kunal (Editor), Paul Le Blanc (Editor), Paul Le Blanc incorrect (Editor)
• Publisher: Pluto
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.02.2012
• EAN: 9780745331447
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-3144-7
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Get Political; Get Political
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; Far-left political ideologies and movements, Marxism & Communism