Trotski
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Surcó el firmamento político como un cometa resplandeciente. De 1917 en adelante, captó la atención del mundo.
«La mejor biografía de Trotski.» John Gray, Literary Review
Al ser asesinado se convirtió en un mártir político y, a partir de ahí, muchos autores que de otro modo lo hubieran tratado con escepticismo le otorgaron el beneficio de la duda. También había algo más: Trotski les había proporcionado argumentos paradesacreditarla reputación de Stalin y sus secuaces, y, para algunos escritores, lo más sencillo es adoptar como propias ideas ajenas sin reflexión mediante. El caso es que Trotski se equivocó en muchos aspectos cruciales...
Revolucionario, teórico, escritor de gran calado, mujeriego, icono de la revolución, judío antisemita, filósofo de la vida cotidiana.
Robert Service ha investigado en los archivos para brindarnos una versión novedosa de la vida de Trotski que arroja mucha luz sobre el personaje y rebate la imagen que se tenía de esta figura esencial del siglo XX.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Having covered Lenin and Stalin, Oxford history professor Service completes his biographical trilogy with the life of Leon Trotsky. Thick and intensely researched but a pleasure to read, it should remain the definitive work for some time. Trotsky (1879 1940) "flashed like a comet across the political sky," sharing credit with Lenin for winning the 1917 revolution but losing the battle to succeed him after his 1923 death. While this outline is well known, Service mines new and old sources to fill in the details. A brilliant writer and speaker but too arrogant to attract a following, Trotsky had no chance against the methodical Stalin, whom he repeatedly insulted. Stalin forced him into exile in 1929 and had him murdered in 1940. Before and during exile, Trotsky poured out histories, memoirs and journalism, heavily influencing our picture of the revolution and its major figures. Service emphasizes that he was no objective observer. Stalin was not as stupid as portrayed, and Trotsky had no objection to mass murder when it served his purposes. This is a thoughtful, rewarding and essential contribution to 20th-century history. 50 b&w photos.
