Trotsky, the Passionate Revolutionary Todd Allan
Trotsky, the Passionate Revolutionary Todd Allan Although Trotsky was dramatically assassinated just over eighty years ago, he remains a controversial figure. Robert Service, his most recent…
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Trotsky, the Passionate Revolutionary Todd Allan
Although Trotsky was dramatically assassinated just over eighty years ago, he remains a controversial figure. Robert Service, his most recent biographer, expressed the hope that his book would 'finish off' Trotsky - a job he believed the ice-axe had failed to do in 1940!This biography, as expected, deals with those aspects for which Trotsky is noted: his passionate and fiery oratory which captivated and inspired huge crowds; organising the Bolshevik Revolution of November 1917; masterminding the creation of the Red Army and ensuring its victory during the Civil War; becoming the most determined opponent of Stalin's creation of a monolithic party and state; being a Marxist theoretician of socialist revolution and combatting fascism; and, of course, being the originator He has had many biographers over the decades - ranging from the overly-sympathetic, to the extremely-hostile.