In defense of Leon Trotsky
By: David North
Edition: Second edition.
Publisher: Mehring Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Oak Park, Michigan
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9781893638365; 9781893638396
Subjects: Revolutionaries; Biography; Communism; Historiography; Political aspects; History; Errors, inventions
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Two lectures on Leon Trotsky's life and ideas; title: Toward a reconsideration of Trotsky's place in the history of the 20th century; title: Leon Trotsky, Soviet historiography, and the fate of classical Marxism; title: The post-Soviet school of historical falsification: a review of two biographies of Leon Trotsky by professors Geoffrey Swain and Ian Thatcher; title: Stalin's terror and the political lie; title: Swain, Thatcher and the "myth" of Trotsky; title: Thatcher's method of historical falsification; title: When lies are told against history; title: Robert Service's contribution to the falsification of history; title: Robert Service's Trotsky; title: Political biography and the historical lie; title: Trotsky's enduring significance; title: The biographer as character assassin; title: Seventy years since the assassination of Leon Trotsky; title: Report to a meeting in Berlin on October 17, 2010; title: Assessing Leon Trotsky seventy years after his assassination; title: Report given at the annual convention of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, November 21, 2010; title: Leon Trotsky and the defense of historical truth; title: Lecture at the University of Leipzig on March 16, 2012; title: Lecture at Historians' Convention: in defense of Leon Trotsky; title: Lecture given at the Historians' Convention at the University of Mainz in Germany, September 27, 2012.