Trotsky (Routledge Historical Biographies) - Hardcover

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Thatcher, Ian D.

 
9780415232500: Trotsky (Routledge Historical Biographies)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0415232503 ISBN 13: 9780415232500
Publisher: Routledge, 2002

Synopsis

This new biography provides a full account of Leon Trotsky's political life, based upon a wealth of primary sources, including previously unpublished material.

Ian D. Thatcher paints a new picture of Trotsky's standing in Russian and world history. Key myths about Trotsky's heroic work as a revolutionary, especially in Russia's first revolution of 1905 and the Russian Civil War, are thrown into question. Although Trotsky had a limited understanding of crucial contemporary events such as Hitler's rise to power, he was an important thinker and politician, not least as a trenchant critic of Stalin's version of communism.

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About the Author

Ian D. Thatcher lectures in Modern Russian History at the University of Leicester. His previous publications include Leon Trotsky and World War One(2000) and Regime and Society in Twentieth-Century Russia(1999).

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2002
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415232503
ISBN 13 
9780415232500
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
264

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