Trotsky - Robert Service

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Résumé :
Although Trotsky?s followers clung to the stubborn view of him as a pure revolutionary and a powerful intellect unjustly hounded into exile by Stalin, the reality is very different. This illuminating portrait of the man and his legacy sets the record straight.

Biographie:
Robert Service

Sommaire:
* List of Illustrations * Maps * Preface * A Note on Usages * Introduction * Part I: 1879--1913 * The Family Bronstein * Upbringing * Schooling * The Young Revolutionary * Love and Prison * Siberian Exile * Iskra * Cutting Loose * The Year 1905 * Trial and Punishment * Again the Emigrant * Unifier * Special Correspondent * Part II: 1914--1919 * War on the War * Designs for Revolution * Atlantic Crossings * Nearly a Bolshevik * Threats and Promises * Seizure of Power * People's Commissar * Trotsky and the Jews * Brest-Litovsk * Kazan and After * Almost the Commander * Red Victory * World Revolution * Part III: 1920--1928 * Images and the Life * Peace and War * Back from the Brink * Disputing about Reform * The Politics of Illness * The Left Opposition * On the Cultural Front * Failing to Succeed * Entourage and Faction * Living with Trotsky * What Trotsky Wanted * Last Stand in Moscow * Alma-Ata * Part IV: 1929--1940 * Bu Yu Kada * Looking for Revolutions * The Writer * Russian Connections * Europe South and North * Setting Up in Mexico * The Fourth International * Trotsky and His Women *'The Russian Question' * Confronting the Philosophers * The Second World War * Assassination * The Keepers and the Flame * Notes * Select Bibliography * Index