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Leon Trotsky - A Revolutionary's Life (Paperback)
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Leon Trotsky - A Revolutionary's Life (Paperback)
Series: Jewish Lives
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Loot Price R422
Discovery Miles 4 220
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A clear-eyed exploration of the career of Leon Trotsky, the tragic
hero who "dreamed of justice and then wreaked havoc," by a leading
expert on human rights and the former Soviet Union Born Lev
Davidovich Bronstein in southern Ukraine, Trotsky was both a
world-class intellectual and a man capable of the most
narrow-minded ideological dogmatism. He was an effective military
strategist and an adept diplomat, who staked the fate of the
Bolshevik revolution on the meager foundation of a Europe-wide
Communist upheaval. He was a master politician who played his cards
badly in the momentous struggle for power against Stalin in the
1920s. And he was an assimilated, indifferent Jew who was among the
first to foresee that Hitler's triumph would mean disaster for his
fellow European Jews, and that Stalin would attempt to forge an
alliance with Hitler if Soviet overtures to the Western democracies
failed. Here, Trotsky emerges as a brilliant and brilliantly flawed
man. Rubenstein offers us a Trotsky who is mentally acute and
impatient with others, one of the finest students of contemporary
politics who refused to engage in the nitty-gritty of party
organization in the 1920s, when Stalin was maneuvering, inexorably,
toward Trotsky's own political oblivion. As Joshua Rubenstein
writes in his preface, "Leon Trotsky haunts our historical memory.
A preeminent revolutionary figure and a masterful writer, Trotsky
led an upheaval that helped to define the contours of
twentieth-century politics." In this lucid and judicious evocation
of Trotsky's life, Joshua Rubenstein gives us an interpretation for
the twenty-first century.
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