Title: In defense of Leon Trotsky /
Authors: North, David.
Publisher: Mehring Books,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Trotsky, Leon,; Trotsky, Leon, Political and social views.; Trotsky, Leon, Influence.; Revolutionaries Soviet Union Biography; Statesmen Soviet Union Biography.; Biography Political aspects.; Historiography Political aspects.; Communism Historiography.; Soviet Union History Errors, inventions, etc.; Soviet Union Historiography.
Contents: pt. 1. Two lectures on Leon Trotsky's life and ideas -- Toward a reconsideration of Trotsky's place in the history of the 20th century -- Leon Trotsky, Soviet historiography, and the fate of classical Marxism -- pt. 2. The post-Soviet school of historical falsification : a review of two biographies of Leon Trotsky by Professors Geoffrey Swain and Ian Thatcher -- Stalin's terror and the political lie -- Swain, Thatcher, and the myth of Trotsky -- Thatcher's method of historical falsification -- When lies are told against history -- pt. 3. Robert Service's contribution to the falsification of history -- Robert Service's Trotsky -- Political biography and the historical lie -- Trotsky's enduring significance -- The biographer as character assassin.