Trotsky

Informationen zum Autor Robert Service is a Fellow of the British Academy and of St Antony's College, Oxford. He has written several books, including the highly acclaimed Lenin: A Biography , Blood on the Snow , Stalin: A Biography and Comrades: A History of World Communism , as well as many other books on Russia's past and present. Trotsky: A Biography was awarded the Duff Cooper Prize. Married with four children, he lives in London. Klappentext 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.A riveting new biography of Leon Trotsky from the critically acclaimed author of Lenin and Stalin Zusammenfassung The widely acclaimed biography of Trotsky by one of the greatest Russian history experts and bestselling author of Stalin, Lenin and Comrades.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Service, Service Robert
• Publisher: Pan Books
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 16.04.2010
• EAN: 9780330439695
• ISBN: 978-0-330-43969-5
• No. of pages: 624
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 197 mm x 40 mm
• Series: Pan Books
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Language, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, HISTORY / Europe / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Russian Revolution, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Biography: historical, political and military, Marxism & Communism, HISTORY / Russia / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Soviet, 2010 Duff Cooper Prize