03332nam 2200625 a 450 991081166890332120230725053512.01-283-30378-797866133037830-300-17841-710.12987/9780300178418(CKB)2550000000056312(StDuBDS)AH23056523(SSID)ssj0000565371(PQKBManifestationID)11356801(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000565371(PQKBWorkID)10527900(PQKB)10619315(MiAaPQ)EBC3420741(DE-B1597)486272(OCoLC)758390021(DE-B1597)9780300178418(Au-PeEL)EBL3420741(CaPaEBR)ebr10503312(CaONFJC)MIL330378(OCoLC)923596713(EXLCZ)99255000000005631220110113d2011 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrLeon Trotsky a revolutionary's life /Joshua RubensteinNew Haven Yale University Pressc20111 online resource (240 p.)Jewish livesBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-300-13724-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.The young revolutionary -- The revolution of 1905 -- An independent Marxist -- The revolution of 1917 -- Out of power -- Exile.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 1920's. 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 1920's, when Stalin was maneuvering, inexorably, toward Trotsky's own political oblivion. As Joshua Rubenstein writes in his preface, "Leon Trotsky haunts our historical memory. A preeminent revolutionary figure and a masterful writer, Trotsky led an upheaval that helped to define the contours of twentieth-century politics." In this lucid and judicious evocation of Trotsky's life, Joshua Rubenstein gives us an interpretation for the twenty-first century.Jewish lives (New Haven, Conn.)CommunistsSoviet UnionBiographyCommunists947.084092BRubenstein Joshua506918MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910811668903321Leon Trotsky4096842UNINA