Leon Trotsky : a revolutionary's life. Jewish Lives - Rubenstein, Joshua
a revolutionary's life
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Born Lev Davidovich Bronstein in southern Ukraine, Trotsky was both a world-class intellectual and a man capable of the most narrow-minded ideological dogmatism. He was an effective military strategist and an adept diplomat, who staked the fate of the Bolshevik revolution on the meager foundation of a Europe-wide Communist upheaval. He was a master politician who played his cards badly in the momentous struggle for power against Stalin in the 1920s. And he was an assimilated, indifferent Jew who was among the first to foresee that Hitler’s triumph would mean disaster for his fellow European Jews, and that Stalin would attempt to forge an alliance with Hitler if Soviet overtures to the Western democracies failed. Here, Trotsky emerges as a brilliant and brilliantly flawed man. Rubenstein offers us a Trotsky who is mentally acute and impatient with others, one of the finest students of contemporary politics who refused to engage in the nitty-gritty of party organization in the 1920s, when Stalin was maneuvering...
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2011Uitgever: Yale University Press225 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0300137249ISBN-13: 9780300137248Koop dit boek tweedehands
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X, 227 pagina's. Hardcover met stofomslag New Haven [etc.], Yale University Press 2011 [Auteur: Rubenstein, Joshua] [Jaar: 2011] [Titel: Leon Trotsky : a revolutionary's life. Jewish Lives]
