Trotsky En Coyoacan
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With Trotsky in Exile
Author: Jean Van Heijenoort
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press
Release Date: 1978
"In 1982 a young Frenchman, an active member of the small Trotskyite group in Paris, was invited to join the exiled Trotsky to serve as his secretary, translator, and bodyguard. He was twenty years old when he arrived at the Turkish island of Prinkipo, where Trotsky and his wife had been living since their expulsion from Russia in 1929. He stayed with them for seven years, at Prinkipo, in France, briefly in Norway, and finally, from January 1937 to November 1939--nine months prior to Trotsky's assassination--in the Mexican town of Coyoacán. In this small book Mr. van Heijenoort gives his recollections of those years, based on memory, on notes he kept at the time, and on documents in the Trotsky archives at Harvard. He does not attempt a full-length portrait of Trotsky or an analysis of his character or his ideas; his purpose is to set down, for the record, incidents and details that are known to himself alone, and also to correct factual errors that have appeared in published works. As a primary document, his narrative will be of great value to students and biographers of Leon Trotsky."--Jacket.
Trotsky
Author: Dmitri Volkogonov
language: en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date: 2008-06-18
Through exclusive archive access and interviews, Dmitri Volkogonov provides a reinterpretation of the life and ruthless career of Leon Trotksy, one of the most influential figures of the 20th century whose faith in the world socialist revolution remained undimmed to the end. This biography examines Leon Trotsky’s career as a revolutionary before World War I, including his success as chief organizer of the October revolution, becoming a military hero of the Russian civil war, and his outspoken criticism of the Stalinist style of leadership. Expelled from the Communist Party, written out of the history of the revolution, and murdered in Mexico by Stalin’s agents, Volkogonov shines a light on this dynamic public speaker, brilliant organizer, and theorist. Through interviews with Stalin’s overseas hit-squad and relatives of Trotsky, as well as access to top-secret Soviet archives, Trotsky lends insight into one of the most influential figures of the twentieth century.
Leon Trotsky
There are few more divisive names in history than the Soviet communist Leon Trotsky. To some, he was a betrayer, a hypocrite, and a totalitarian, and yet to many others he was a revolutionary of high esteem, who battled an outdated, oppressive dynasty and helped to usher in a new political era, and whose name became a political moniker: trotskyist. Whether colored by disdain or admiration, one thing is certain: Trotsky was one of the most important figures of the twentieth century. In Leon Trotsky, Paul Le Blanc delves deep into Trotsky’s life and relationships to reveal and make sense of his complex character and decisive actions. Interweaving dramatic historical events with examinations of Trotsky’s multi-faceted personality, he offers incisive views of the key facets of Trotsky’s life: his involvement with Soviet bureaucracy, the Spanish Civil War, and the rise of Hitler in the years before World War II. Illuminating Trotsky’s personal and political struggles and achievements, this balanced portrait will be invaluable to history students or anyone interested in the extraordinary lives that made up the twentieth century.