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- 2009025417 abstract "Trotsky is perhaps the most intriguing and, given his prominence, the most understudied of the Soviet revolutionaries. Using new archival sources, Robert Service offers new insights. He discusses Trotsky's fractious relations with the leaders he was trying to unify; his attempt to disguise his political closeness to Stalin; and his role in the early 1920s as the progenitor of political and cultural Stalinism. Trotsky evinced a surprisingly glacial and schematic approach to making revolution. Service recounts Trotsky's role in the botched German revolution of 1923; his willingness to subject Europe to a Red Army invasion in the 1920s; and his assumption that peasants could easily be pushed onto collective farms. Although Trotsky's followers clung to the stubborn view of him as a pure revolutionary and a powerful intellect unjustly hounded into exile by Stalin, the reality is very different.--From publisher description.".
- 2009025417 contributor B11423346.
- 2009025417 coverage "Russia Politics and government 1894-1917.".
- 2009025417 coverage "Soviet Union Politics and government 1917-1936.".
- 2009025417 created "2009.".
- 2009025417 date "2009".
- 2009025417 date "2009.".
- 2009025417 dateCopyrighted "2009.".
- 2009025417 description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- 2009025417 description "Trotsky is perhaps the most intriguing and, given his prominence, the most understudied of the Soviet revolutionaries. Using new archival sources, Robert Service offers new insights. He discusses Trotsky's fractious relations with the leaders he was trying to unify; his attempt to disguise his political closeness to Stalin; and his role in the early 1920s as the progenitor of political and cultural Stalinism. Trotsky evinced a surprisingly glacial and schematic approach to making revolution. Service recounts Trotsky's role in the botched German revolution of 1923; his willingness to subject Europe to a Red Army invasion in the 1920s; and his assumption that peasants could easily be pushed onto collective farms. Although Trotsky's followers clung to the stubborn view of him as a pure revolutionary and a powerful intellect unjustly hounded into exile by Stalin, the reality is very different.--From publisher description.".
- 2009025417 extent "xxii, 600 p., [24] p. of plates :".
- 2009025417 identifier "0674036158".
- 2009025417 identifier "9780674036154".
- 2009025417 issued "2009".
- 2009025417 issued "2009.".
- 2009025417 language "eng".
- 2009025417 publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,".
- 2009025417 spatial "Russia Politics and government 1894-1917.".
- 2009025417 spatial "Russia".
- 2009025417 spatial "Soviet Union Politics and government 1917-1936.".
- 2009025417 spatial "Soviet Union".
- 2009025417 subject "Communism Soviet Union History.".
- 2009025417 subject "DK254.T6 S427 2009".
- 2009025417 subject "Exiles Russia Biography.".
- 2009025417 subject "Revolutionaries Soviet Union Biography.".
- 2009025417 subject "Statesmen Soviet Union Biography.".
- 2009025417 subject "Trotsky, Leon, 1879-1940.".
- 2009025417 title "Trotsky : a biography / Robert Service.".
- 2009025417 type "text".