LEADER 03393nam 2200637 a 450 001 9910458041503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-30378-7 010 $a9786613303783 010 $a0-300-17841-7 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300178418 035 $a(CKB)2550000000056312 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH23056523 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000565371 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11356801 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000565371 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10527900 035 $a(PQKB)10619315 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420741 035 $a(DE-B1597)486272 035 $a(OCoLC)758390021 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300178418 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420741 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10503312 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL330378 035 $a(OCoLC)923596713 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000056312 100 $a20110113d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLeon Trotsky$b[electronic resource] $ea revolutionary's life /$fJoshua Rubenstein 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (240 p.) 225 1 $aJewish lives 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-300-13724-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe young revolutionary -- The revolution of 1905 -- An independent Marxist -- The revolution of 1917 -- Out of power -- Exile. 330 $aBorn Lev Davidovich Bronstein in southern Ukraine, Trotsky was both a world-class intellectual and a man capable of the most narrow-minded ideological dogmatism. He was an effective military strategist and an adept diplomat, who staked the fate of the Bolshevik revolution on the meager foundation of a Europe-wide Communist upheaval. He was a master politician who played his cards badly in the momentous struggle for power against Stalin in the 1920's. And he was an assimilated, indifferent Jew who was among the first to foresee that Hitler's triumph would mean disaster for his fellow European Jews, and that Stalin would attempt to forge an alliance with Hitler if Soviet overtures to the Western democracies failed. Here, Trotsky emerges as a brilliant and brilliantly flawed man. Rubenstein offers us a Trotsky who is mentally acute and impatient with others, one of the finest students of contemporary politics who refused to engage in the nitty-gritty of party organization in the 1920's, when Stalin was maneuvering, inexorably, toward Trotsky's own political oblivion. As Joshua Rubenstein writes in his preface, "Leon Trotsky haunts our historical memory. A preeminent revolutionary figure and a masterful writer, Trotsky led an upheaval that helped to define the contours of twentieth-century politics." In this lucid and judicious evocation of Trotsky's life, Joshua Rubenstein gives us an interpretation for the twenty-first century. 410 0$aJewish lives (New Haven, Conn.) 606 $aCommunists$zSoviet Union$vBiography 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCommunists 676 $a947.084092 676 $aB 700 $aRubenstein$b Joshua$0506918 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910458041503321 996 $aLeon Trotsky$92470133 997 $aUNINA