Although Trotsky was dramatically assassinated just over eighty years ago, he remains a controversial figure. He has had many biographers over the decades ranging from the overlysympathetic, to the extremelyhostile. Robert Service, his most recent biographer, expressed the hope that his book would finish off Trotsky a job he believed the iceaxe 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 Stalins creation of a monolithic party and state being a Marxist theoretician of socialist revolution and combatting fascism and, of course, being the originator of the very specific brand of revolutionary socialism that, as early as 1906, became known as Trotskyism. However, this biography also explores other aspects of Trotskys life which are not so wellknown. In particular, from a very early age, his love of writing the world of books and publishing became his first passion it remained his first love and, if revolutionary politics had not taken over, his life would have been a very literary one. Immediately after the November Revolution, he hoped to return to his literary work, believing his main practical work as a revolutionary was over. His writings on art and...

Binding: Paperback;272 pages; Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd; Classification: BGH; Weight: 482 g; Dimensions: 155 x 234 x 31

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