Bibliograph

Trotsky, a biography, Robert Service

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Label

Trotsky, a biography, Robert Service

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

platesillustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Trotsky

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

319493419

Responsibility statement

Robert Service

Sub title

a biography

Table Of Contents

1879-1913 -- The family Bronstein -- Upbringing -- Schooling -- The young revolutionary -- Love and prison -- Siberian exile -- Iskra -- Cutting loose -- The year 1905 -- Trial and punishment -- Again the emigrant -- Unifier -- Special correspondent -- 1914-1919 -- War on the war -- Designs for revolution -- Atlantic crossings -- Nearly a Bolshevik -- Threats and promises -- Seizure of power -- People's commissar -- Trotsky and the Jews -- Brest-Litovsk -- Kazan and after -- Almost the commander -- Red victory -- World revolution -- 1920-1928 -- Images and the life -- Peace and war -- Back from the brink -- Disputing about reform -- The politics of illness -- The left opposition -- On the cultural front -- Failing to succeed -- Entourage and faction -- Living with Trotsky -- What Trotsky wanted -- Last stand in Moscow -- Alma-Ata -- 1929-1940 -- Büyükada -- Looking for revolutions -- The writer -- Russian connections -- Europe south and north -- Setting up in Mexico -- The Fourth International -- Trotsky and his women -- "The Russian question" -- Confronting the philosophers -- The Second World War -- Assassination -- The keepers and the flame

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