Service is already the author of biographies of Lenin and Stalin, however, and these things run in … Stalin's Nemesis: The Exile and Murder of Leon Trotsky . Trotsky is perhaps the most intriguing and, given his prominence, the most understudied of the Soviet revolutionaries. A World History of Communism completes his trilogy on the leaders of the Russian Revolution. Trotsky: A Biography. Trotsky: A Biography by Robert Service . His research interests concern Russian history and politics in all its aspects, from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Pan Macmillan: London, 2010, xxii+600 pp. Buy Trotsky: A Biography Main Market by Service, Robert (ISBN: 9781405053464) from Amazon's Book Store. Trotsky Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. British historian Robert Service is not one of those, though. Robert Service completes his masterful trilogy on the founding figures of the Soviet Union in an eagerly anticipated, authoritative biography of Leon Trotsky. Robert Service, a noted Russian historian and political commentator, is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a fellow of St Antony’s College, Oxford. Robert Service talked about his newest book [Trotsky: A Biography] (Belknap Press, 2009). Amazon.in - Buy Trotsky: A Biography book online at best prices in India on Amazon.in. Read Trotsky: A Biography book reviews & author details and more at Amazon.in. By. by Bertrand M Patenaude 352pp, Faber, £20 Robert Service completes his masterful trilogy on the founding figures of the Soviet Union in an eagerly anticipated, authoritative biography of Leon Trotsky. share ... Trotsky by Robert Service. Educated at Cambridge and Essex Universities, Service held a professorship at Oxford until 2013. Leon Trotsky is the paradigmatic revolutionary. Robert John Service (lahir di Britania Raya, 29 Oktober 1947; umur 73 tahun) adalah seorang sejarawan, akademisi, dan pengarang Inggris yang menulis tentang sejarah Uni Soviet, terutama era dari Revolusi Oktober sampai kematian Stalin. A “Dis-Service” to Leon Trotsky – Review of Robert Service’s Biography. A former Professor of Russian History at Oxford University and the author of several important works on Soviet history, Robert Service has been described by a fellow biographer of Stalin, Simon Sebag Montefiore, as ‘the founding maestro of Stalinist history’. Robert Service draws on hitherto unexamined archives and on his profound understanding of Russian history to draw a portrait of the man and his legacy, revealing that though his followers have represented Trotsky as a pure revolutionary soul and a powerful intellect unjustly hounded into exile by Stalin and his henchmen. No_Favorite. Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! Robert Service, who authored biographies of V. I. Lenin and Joseph Stalin and a history of world communism, has now published a biography of Leon Trotsky. Free delivery on qualified orders. Trotsky is perhaps the most intriguing and, given his prominence, the most understudied of … Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. 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. Robert Service draws on hitherto unexamined archives and on his profound understanding of Russian history to draw a portrait of the man and his legacy, revealing that though his followers have represented Trotsky as a pure revolutionary soul and a powerful intellect unjustly hounded into exile by Stalin and his henchmen. A Biography. Trotsky: A Biography By Robert Service Harvard, 648 pages, $35. Trotsky by Robert Service If most of us know anything about Leon Trotsky it is that he met his end through an ice-pick driven into his head by an agent of Stalin, in a villa in Mexico in 1940. True, if not necessarily sufficient. Service was awarded the 2009 Duff Cooper Prize for his biography Trotsky (Harvard Robert Service completes his masterful trilogy on the founding figures of the Soviet Union in an eagerly anticipated, authoritative biography of Leon Trotsky. “This book's purpose,” Service announces at the start, “is to dig up the buried life” (p. 4). He has made a career of dispassionately analyzing Communists and Communism, including writing biographies of Lenin and Stalin. EMBED (for wordpress.com hosted blogs and archive.org item
tags) Want more? Blurb: Robert Service completes his masterful trilogy on the founding figures of the Soviet Union in an eagerly anticipated, authoritative biography of Leon 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. This book is very thick – running to 600 pages – but is very thin when it comes to an honest political examination and analysis of the ideas of Leon Trotsky, the subject of Service… The chapters are similarly sized, each offering a detailed chunk of Trotsky's life , without being bogged down with minutia, yet still offering more than enough information to satisfy the reader. Robert Service, Trotsky. The author, Robert Service, does a fine job of giving the reader a firm grasp of the life of Trotsky and Service achieves this without bias and without overloading the reader with unnecessary detail. Trotsky: A Biography by Professor Robert Service, has been brought out with considerable fanfare. A ‘dis-Service’ to Leon Trotsky. This book is very thick running to 600 pages but is very thin when it comes to an honest political examination and analysis of the ideas of Leon Trotsky, the subject of Service’ s tome. So I started with Trotsky, perhaps the easiest of the 3 to review. Trotsky is perhaps the most intriguing and, given his prominence, the most understudied of the Soviet revolutionaries. Reviewed by Tony Wilson With this book, Robert Service, Professor of Russian History at St Antony's College, Oxford and author of Comrades. The British publisher is Macmillan. Using new archival sources including family letters, party and military correspondence, confidential speeches, and medical records, Service offers new insights into Trotsky. Robert Service Trotsky is perhaps the most intriguing and, given his prominence, the most understudied of the Soviet revolutionaries. I had already consumed Robert Service's book Comrades: Communism; A World History so thought it was time I read his books on the main founders of the USSR State - Lenin, Stalin and Trotsky. EMBED. Robert Service's biography of the Russian revolutionary reveals the real reason Trotsky was outmanoeuvred by Stalin, says Rafael Behr Robert Service, one of our finest historians of Soviet Russia, has written the first full-length biography of Trotsky in English for over half a century. 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