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Informationen zum Autor Leon Trotsky was a Marxist writer! theorist and leader. He organized the insurrection of the October Revolution in Russia in 1917 and then was the commander of the Red Army in the subsequent civil war. After Lenin’s death! Trotsky led the Left Opposition against Stalin’s bureaucratic counterrevolution! and was exiled in a series of countries before being assassinated in Mexico in 1940. Slavoj ?i?ek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. He is a professor at the European Graduate School! International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities! Birkbeck College! University of London! and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology! University of Ljubljana! Slovenia. His books include Living in the End Times ! First as Tragedy! Then as Farce ! In Defense of Lost Causes ! four volumes of the Essential ?i?ek! and many more. Klappentext Soon after the Bolshevik victory in the Russian Revolution! Leon Trotsky led the Red Army against the counter-revolutionary White armies. Part of the "Revolutions" series! this work argues that Trotsky's attack on the illusions of democracy has a vital relevance. Zusammenfassung Soon after the Bolshevik victory in the Russian Revolution! Leon Trotsky led the Red Army against the counter-revolutionary White armies. Part of the "Revolutions" series! this work argues that Trotsky's attack on the illusions of democracy has a vital relevance.
