LEADER 02667oam 2200457z- 450 001 9910150295303321 005 20141216083224.0 010 $a1-893638-39-1 035 $a(CKB)3710000000942880 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000942880 100 $a20190224c2013uuuu -u- - 101 0 $aeng 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aIn defense of Leon Trotsky /$fDavid North 205 $aSecond edition. 210 $cMehring Books 210 1$aOak Park, Michigan :$cMehring Books,$d2013. 215 $axvii, 259 pages $cillustrations ;$d23 cm 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-893638-36-7 327 $aTwo 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. 606 $aRevolutionaries$zSoviet Union$vBiography 606 $aCommunism$xHistoriography 606 $aBiography$xPolitical aspects 606 $aHistoriography$xPolitical aspects 607 $aSoviet Union$xHistory$xErrors, inventions, etc 615 0$aRevolutionaries 615 0$aCommunism$xHistoriography. 615 0$aBiography$xPolitical aspects. 615 0$aHistoriography$xPolitical aspects. 676 $a947.084092 700 $aNorth$b David$f1950-$01243511 801 0$bICU/DLC 801 1$bICU 801 2$bDLC 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910150295303321 996 $aIn defense of Leon Trotsky$92884515 997 $aUNINA