02682oam 2200457z- 450 991015029530332120141216083224.01-893638-39-1(CKB)3710000000942880(EXLCZ)99371000000094288020190224c2013uuuu -u- -engrdacontentrdamediardacarrierIn defense of Leon Trotsky /David NorthSecond edition.Mehring BooksOak Park, Michigan :Mehring Books,2013.xvii, 259 pages illustrations ;23 cmIncludes index.1-893638-36-7 Two lectures on Leon Trotsky's life and ideas -- Toward a reconsideration of Trotsky's place in the history of the 20th century -- Leon Trotsky, Soviet historiography, and the fate of classical Marxism -- The post-Soviet school of historical falsification: a review of two biographies of Leon Trotsky by professors Geoffrey Swain and Ian Thatcher -- Stalin's terror and the political lie -- Swain, Thatcher and the "myth" of Trotsky -- Thatcher's method of historical falsification -- When lies are told against history -- Robert Service's contribution to the falsification of history -- Robert Service's Trotsky -- Political biography and the historical lie -- Trotsky's enduring significance -- The biographer as character assassin -- Seventy years since the assassination of Leon Trotsky -- Report to a meeting in Berlin on October 17, 2010 -- Assessing Leon Trotsky seventy years after his assassination -- Report given at the annual convention of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, November 21, 2010 -- Leon Trotsky and the defense of historical truth -- Lecture at the University of Leipzig on March 16, 2012 -- Lecture at Historians' Convention: in defense of Leon Trotsky -- Lecture given at the Historians' Convention at the University of Mainz in Germany, September 27, 2012.RevolutionariesSoviet UnionBiographyCommunismHistoriographyBiographyPolitical aspectsHistoriographyPolitical aspectsSoviet UnionHistoryErrors, inventions, etcRevolutionariesBiography.CommunismHistoriography.BiographyPolitical aspects.HistoriographyPolitical aspects.947.084092North David1950-1243511ICU/DLCICUDLCBOOK9910150295303321In defense of Leon Trotsky2884515UNINA