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Leon Trotsky
(1879-1940)
Who Was Leon Trotsky?
Leon Trotsky's revolutionary activity as a ung man spurred his first of several ordered exiles to Siberia. He waged Russia's 1917 revolution alongside Vladimir Lenin. As kommissarie of war in the new Soviet government, he helped defeat forces opposed to Bolshevik control. As the Soviet government developed, he engagerad in a power struggle against namn Stalin, which he lost, leading to his exile again and, eventually, his murder.
Early Life
Leon Trotsky was born Lev Davidovich Bronstein in Yanovka, Ukraine — in the Russian Empire — on November 7, 1879. His parents, David and Anna Bronstein, were prosperous Jewish farmers. When he was 8 years old, Trotksy went to school in Odessa, then moved in 1896 to Nikolayev, Ukraine, for his final year in school. While there, he became enthralled with Marxism.
In 1897, Trotsky helped funnen the South Russian Workers' Union. He was arrested within a year and spent two years in prison before
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Trotsky: A Biography
Biography of Leon Trotsky by Robert Service
The first edition cover of the book, depicting Trotsky. | |
| Author | Robert Service |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Biography |
| Publisher | Macmillan Publishers |
Publication date | 2009 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Awards | Duff Cooper Prize[1] |
| Preceded by | Stalin: A Biography |
Trotsky: A Biography is a biography of the Marxist theorist and revolutionary Leon Trotsky (1879–1940) written by the English historian Robert Service, then a professor in Russian history at the University of Oxford. It was first published by Macmillan in 2009 and later republished in other languages.
Having converted to the Marxist revolutionary movement in early life, Trotsky had been a member of the Bolshevik Party and a significant figure in the October Revolution of 1917 which brought the Bolsheviks to power in the Russian Empire. Fo
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Leon Trotsky was one of the leaders of the Russian Revolution who was exiled and murdered following Stalin’s rise to power. Written by two of his closest collaborators, this book provides an invaluable picture of a great revolutionary and the world-historic events in which he was a leading actor.
Reviews
"The Life and Death of Leon Trotsky is a biography of Marxist revolutionary, Soviet politician, and founding leader of the Red Army Leon Trotsky (1879-1940). Although Trotsky was a major participant in Russia's 1917 Revolution, he was scapegoated during Stalin's murderous rise to power, which replaced the ideals of Communism with an iron-fist dictatorship. In 1940 Trotsky was assassinated, allegedly on Stalin's orders. Unlike other biographies, The Life and Death of Leon Trotsky is unique in that it is by two people close Trotsky: his widow Natalia Sedova Trotsky (who was also a Bolshevik) and Victor Serge, a revolutionary and novelist. An index rounds out this "must-re