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  1. Leon Trotsky

    Birth date: November 7, 1879. Birth City: Yanovka. Birth Country: Ukraine. Gender: Male. Best Known For: Communist Leon Trotsky helped ignite the Russian Revolution of 1917, and built the Red Army ...

  2. Leon Trotsky

    Leon Trotsky. Lev Davidovich Bronstein[ b] (7 November [ O.S. 26 October] 1879 - 21 August 1940), better known as Leon Trotsky, [ c] was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician, and political theorist. He was a central figure in the 1905 Revolution, [ 3] October Revolution, Russian Civil War, and establishment of the Soviet Union.

  3. Trotsky: A Biography

    Trotsky: A Biography. Paperback - October 30, 2011. Robert Service completes his masterful trilogy on the founding figures of the Soviet Union in an eagerly anticipated, authoritative biography of Leon Trotsky. Trotsky is perhaps the most intriguing and, given his prominence, the most understudied of the Soviet revolutionaries.

  4. Trotsky: 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 ...

  5. Trotsky: A Biography by Robert Service

    Probably the best biography of Trotsky available, but not for the timid or the merely curious; those who do not want to know every available detail of Trotsky's life, but only an overview, best look elsewhere. For the rest of us, the history nuts or the student of modern history, this is the biography to get. biography. 2 likes.

  6. Biography of Leon Trotsky, Russian Revolutionary

    Jennifer Rosenberg. Updated on May 08, 2021. Leon Trotsky (Nov. 7, 1879-Aug. 21, 1940) was a Communist theorist, prolific writer, a leader in the 1917 Russian Revolution, the people's commissar for foreign affairs under Vladimir Lenin (1917-1918), and then head of the Red Army as the people's commissar of army and navy affairs (1918-1924).

  7. Leon Trotsky

    Leon Trotsky. BORN: 1879, Yanovka, Ukraine DIED: 1940, Mexico City NATIONALITY: Russian GENRE: Nonfiction MAJOR WORKS: My Life (1930) The History of the Russian Revolution to Brest-Litovsk (1932) The Revolution Betrayed (1937) Overview. Leon Trotsky was a principal strategist of the Russian revolution and a central leader in the founding of the Soviet Union.He played an important role in the ...

  8. Trotsky

    Robert Service completes his masterful trilogy on the founding figures of the Soviet Union in an eagerly anticipated, authoritative biography of Leon Trotsky.Trotsky is perhaps the most intriguing and, given his prominence, the most understudied of the Soviet revolutionaries. Using new archival sources including family letters, party and military correspondence, confidential speeches, and ...

  9. Trotsky: A Biography

    Harvard University Press, 2009 - Biography & Autobiography - 600 pages. Robert Service completes his masterful trilogy on the founding figures of the Soviet Union in an eagerly anticipated, authoritative biography of Leon Trotsky. Trotsky is perhaps the most intriguing and, given his prominence, the most understudied of the Soviet revolutionaries.

  10. Leon Trotsky biography

    Leon Trotsky biography. Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) was a Russian Marxist and leading figure in the Russian Revolution of 1917. Second, only to Lenin, Trotsky was a key figure in the Russian civil war and the formative years of the Soviet Union. After Lenin's death, Trotsky was outmanoeuvred by Stalin, and he was expelled from the Communist ...

  11. Leon Trotsky, a Hundred Years After the Russian Revolution

    Fifteen years later they led an armed uprising in Petrograd and gained control of the Russian Empire. Trotsky's role in the revolution has always been questioned by ideological partisans. After Lenin's death in January 1924, Stalin gained control of the Communist party apparatus and then moved against his rivals, most notably Trotsky.

  12. Leon Trotsky

    Leon Trotsky, born Lev Bronstein, was a Marxist writer, orator and organiser who in 1917 became a significant Bolshevik leader. 2. In 1903 Trotsky sided with the Mensheviks against Lenin, though he later sought to reconcile the two SD factions. 3. In 1917 Trotsky returned from exile and began to work with the Bolsheviks, especially in the ...

  13. Trotsky: A Biography

    Westerners sympathetic to the ideals of socialism have often speculated about the development path of the Soviet Union if Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) and not Joseph Stalin (1878-1953) had served as Vladimir Lenin's (1870-1924) successor. Taking Trotsky's post-exile criticisms of Stalinism at face-value, radicals such as Isaac Deutscher and Max Eastman have argued that a Trotsky-led regime would ...

  14. Leon Trotsky Biography

    Childhood & Early Life. Leon Trotsky was born Lev DavidovichBronstein on November 7, 1879, in Yanovka, YelisavetgradskyUyezd, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire, to David LeontyevichBronstein and Anna Bronstein. He was born in a wealthy family with his father working as a farmer.Despite being Jewish, they were not very religious.

  15. Books by Leon Trotsky (Author of The Revolution Betrayed)

    History of the Russian Revolution. by. Leon Trotsky, Ahmed Shawki (Introduction), Max Eastman (Translator) 4.18 avg rating — 1,776 ratings — published 1931 — 105 editions. Want to Read. saving….

  16. Leon Trotsky by Joshua Rubenstein

    His book shows us the early Trotsky, bright and arrogant, rising spectacularly to the revolutionary occasion in 1905 and again in 1917. It shows us Trotsky as the organiser of victory in the civil ...

  17. Biography

    Biography. Birth: October 26 (November 7), 1879, Yanovka, Yelisavetgrad District, Kherson Province, Russian Empire. Death: August 21, 1940 (age 60), Coyoacán, Mexico. Party: RSDLP(b)/RKP(b) (1917-1927), SDPS. Profession: revolutionary, statesman, writer. Lev Davidovich Trotsky - Russian revolutionary, active participant in the Russian and international socialist and communist movement ...

  18. Life of Leon Trotsky

    Consider Supporting HoH: https://www.patreon.com/HouseofHistoryLeon Trotsky is a name you probably recognize. He was a man that dedicated his life to the Com...

  19. Leon Trotsky Biogrpahies

    Biographies, Critiques, Criticisms, Sketches, Autobiographies, Obituaries and Memoirs of ... Leon Trotsky: My Life (1930) James P. Cannon: To the memory of the old man (obituary—1940) Pandelis Pouliopoulos: Trotsky: One of the Great Leaders of Marxism (study—1941) Gérard Rosenthal, Avocat de Trotsky: A Visit With Trotsky.

  20. Leon Trotsky: Stalin

    Special Note by the Editor/Trasncriber of this Work. Trotsky's Stalin biography is an important historical document. Unfortunately Trotsky was not able to complete the book himself - he was assassinated by the Spanish stalinist in Ramón Mercader - and the incomplete manuscript was edited and translated by Charles Malamuth.

  21. Leon Trotsky

    Leon Davidovich Trotsky (November 7, 1879 - August 21, 1940), born Lev Davidovich Bronstein, was a Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist theorist. An influential politician in the early days of the Soviet Union, Trotsky served as the People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs and the People's Commissar of War and was the founder and commander of ...

  22. Amazon.com: Leon Trotsky: books, biography, latest update

    Follow Leon Trotsky and explore their bibliography from Amazon.com's Leon Trotsky Author Page. ... Buy a Kindle Kindle eBooks Kindle Unlimited Prime Reading Best Sellers & More Categories Kindle Vella Amazon Book Clubs Kindle Book Deals Kindle Singles ... Visit Author Central to update your books, profile picture, and biography. Back to top Get ...

  23. Trotsky: A Biography

    Trotsky: A Biography. Hardcover - November 23, 2009. Robert Service completes his masterful trilogy on the founding figures of the Soviet Union in an eagerly anticipated, authoritative biography of Leon Trotsky. Trotsky is perhaps the most intriguing and, given his prominence, the most understudied of the Soviet revolutionaries.