Trotsky
Subtitle: A Biography
By: Robert Service.
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 600
ISBN-13: 9780674036154
Subjects: Trotsky, Leon, -- 1879-1940; Revolutionaries -- Soviet Union -- Biography; Statesmen -- Soviet Union -- Biography; Exiles -- Russia -- Biography; Communism -- Soviet Union -- History; Russia -- Politics and government -- 1894-1917; Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1917-1936
Genres: Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. 1879-1914; title: The family Bronstein; title: Upbringing; title: The schooling of Leiba; title: The young revolutionary; title: Love and prison; title: Siberian exile; title: "Iskra"; title: Cutting loose; title: The year 1905; title: Trial and punishment; title: Again the emigrant; title: Unifier; title: Special correspondent; title: pt. 2. 1914-1919; title: War on the war; title: Designs for revolution; title: Atlantic crossings; title: Nearly a Bolshevik; title: Threats and promises; title: Seizure of power; title: People's commissar; title: Trotsky and the Jews; title: Brest-Litovsk; title: Kazan and after; title: Almost the commander; title: Red victory; title: World revolution; title: pt. 3. 1920-1928; title: Images and the life; title: Peace and war; title: Back from the brink; title: Disputing about reform; title: The politics of illness; title: The Left opposition; title: Fighting for culture; title: Failing to succeed; title: Entourage and faction; title: Living with Trotsky; title: What Trotsky wanted; title: Last stand in Moscow; title: Alma-Ata; title: pt. 4. 1929-1940; title: Büyükada; title: Looking for revolutions; title: The writer; title: Russian connections; title: Europe south and north; title: Setting up in Mexico; title: The Fourth International; title: Trotsky and his women; title: "The Russian question"; title: Confronting the philosophers; title: The Second World War; title: Assassination; title: The keepers and the flame.