He gives no comfort to romantics who sentimentalize Trotsky as a more restrained alternative to Stalin. "Professor Christopher Read, Universityof Warwick" There is no disputing Trotsky's significance as a revolutionary.
Ernest Mandel's book makes possible a necessary extension of this debate by providing the first ever synthetic account of the development of Trotsky's Marxism in its successive encounters with the key problems and crises of the epoch.
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.
Through interviews with Stalin’s overseas hit-squad and relatives of Trotsky, as well as access to top-secret Soviet archives, Trotsky lends insight into one of the most influential figures of the twentieth century.
Trotsky: Towards October, 1879-1917
Bertrand M. Patenaude masterfully interweaves the story of Trotsky’s final years with flashbacks to pivotal episodes in his career as a young Marxist, revolutionary hero, Red Army chief, Bolshevik leader, outcast from Stalin’s USSR, and ...
Ian D. Thatcher paints a new picture of Trotsky's standing in Russian and world history.