Trotsky

Resumen del libro

Revolutionary practitioner, theorist, factional chief, sparkling writer, ladies' man' (e.g., his affair with Frieda Kahlo), icon of the Revolution, anti-Jewish Jew, philosopher of everyday life, grand seigneur of his household, father and hunted victim, Trotsky lived a brilliant life in extraordinary times. Robert Service draws on hitherto unexamined archives and on his profound understanding of Russian history to draw a portrait of the man and his legacy, revealing that though his followers have represented Trotsky as a pure revolutionary soul and a powerful intellect unjustly hounded into exile by Stalin and his henchmen. The reality is very different, as this masterful and compelling biography reveals.

Biografía del autor

P B Robert Service /B (Reino Unido, 1947) pertenece a la British Academy y es catedrático emérito de Historia Rusa en la Universidad de Oxford. Autor de una historia de Rusia desde Nicolás II hasta Vladímir Putin y de las biografías de Lenin, Stalin y Trotski, está considerado uno de los mayores expertos en temas rusos.<br>