Trotsky, 9780330439695
Paperback
Revolutionary icon, ladies’ man, and hunted victim: Trotsky’s complex life revealed.

Trotsky

a biography

$55.17

  • Paperback

    656 pages

  • Release Date

    31 May 2010

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Summary

Trotsky: A Life of Revolution and Exile

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 …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780330439695
ISBN-10:0330439693
Author:Robert Service
Publisher:Pan Macmillan
Imprint:Pan Books
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:656
Edition:Unabridged
Release Date:31 May 2010
Weight:448g
Dimensions:197mm x 130mm x 41mm
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Critics Review

An outstanding, fascinating biography of this dazzling titan – Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Daily TelegraphExemplary – Robert Harris, The Sunday Times

About The Author

Robert Service

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, Russia: Experiment with a People, Stalin: A Biography and Comrades: A History of World Communism, as well as many other books on Russia’s past and present. Married with four children, he lives in London.

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