Reviewed by Tony Wilson With this book, Robert Service, Professor of Russian History at St Antony's College, Oxford and author of Comrades. A World History of Communism completes his trilogy on the leaders of the Russian Revolution. Robert Service, a noted Russian historian and political commentator, is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a fellow of St Antony’s College, Oxford. Service was awarded the 2009 Duff Cooper Prize for his biography Trotsky (Harvard Using new archival sources including family letters, party and military correspondence, confidential speeches, and medical records, Service offers new insights into Trotsky. Trotsky is perhaps the most intriguing and, given his prominence, the most understudied of the Soviet revolutionaries. Although Trotsky's followers clung to the stubborn view of him as a pure revolutionary and a powerful intellect unjustly hounded into exile by Stalin, the reality is very different. Blurb: Robert Service completes his masterful trilogy on the founding figures of the Soviet Union in an eagerly anticipated, authoritative biography of Leon Trotsky. Trotsky: A Biography. Peter Taaffe - October 14, 2009. I had already consumed Robert Service's book Comrades: Communism; A World History so thought it was time I read his books on the main founders of the USSR State - Lenin, Stalin and Trotsky. Trotsky: A Biography by Robert Service . Trotsky by Robert Service If most of us know anything about Leon Trotsky it is that he met his end through an ice-pick driven into his head by an agent of Stalin, in a villa in Mexico in 1940. 2422. Leon Trotsky is the paradigmatic revolutionary. 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. Pan Macmillan: London, 2010, xxii+600 pp. A ‘dis-Service’ to Leon Trotsky. Trotsky: A Biography by Professor Robert Service, has been brought out with considerable fanfare. Trotsky is perhaps the most intriguing and, given his prominence, the most understudied of the Soviet revolutionaries. Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! Robert Service completes his masterful trilogy on the founding figures of the Soviet Union in an eagerly anticipated, authoritative biography of Leon Trotsky.Trotsky is perhaps the most intriguing and, given his prominence, the most understudied of the Soviet revolutionaries. EMBED (for wordpress.com hosted blogs and archive.org item tags) Want more? Trotsky: A Biography By Robert Service Harvard, 648 pages, $35. Robert John Service FBA (born 29 October 1947) is a British historian, academic, and author who has written extensively on the history of the Soviet Union, particularly the era from the October Revolution to Stalin's death. He is a prolific writer, penning eight books on modern Russian history, including biographies of Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin. 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. Buy Trotsky: A Biography Main Market by Service, Robert (ISBN: 9781405053464) from Amazon's Book Store. Trostsky, Robert Service's debunking biography, proves that being Stalin’s great enemy does not make Trotsky in any way a good man, says Simon Sebag Montefiore in a review first published in 2009. Robert Service is one of Britain’s best-known experts on Russia and the Russian Revolution. by Robert Service 600pp, Macmillan, £25. More than any other Bolshevik, it was Trotsky, the penseur with the pince-nez, who became the brand of the revolution, and not just the revolution in Russia—revolution everywhere. Editor, October 15, 2009 Reading Time: 9 minutes. Read Trotsky: A Biography book reviews & author details and more at Amazon.in. Robert Service completes his masterful trilogy on the founding figures of the Soviet Union in an eagerly anticipated, authoritative biography of Leon Trotsky. Robert Service Trotsky is perhaps the most intriguing and, given his prominence, the most understudied of the Soviet revolutionaries. We have all heard the phrases - a Leninist, a Trotskyist, a Stalinist. Robert Service completes his masterful trilogy on the founding figures of the Soviet Union in an eagerly anticipated, authoritative biography of Leon Trotsky.Trotsky is perhaps the most intriguing and, given his prominence, the most understudied of the Soviet revolutionaries. 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. Amazon.in - Buy Trotsky: A Biography book online at best prices in India on Amazon.in. Free delivery on qualified orders. Educated at Cambridge and Essex Universities, Service held a professorship at Oxford until 2013. A Biography. “This book's purpose,” Service announces at the start, “is to dig up the buried life” (p. 4). This book is very thick – running to 600 pages – but is very thin when it comes to an honest political examination and analysis of the ideas of Leon Trotsky, the subject of Service… 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 … A “Dis-Service” to Leon Trotsky – Review of Robert Service’s Biography. British historian Robert Service is not one of those, though. Robert John Service (lahir di Britania Raya, 29 Oktober 1947; umur 73 tahun) adalah seorang sejarawan, akademisi, dan pengarang Inggris yang menulis tentang sejarah Uni Soviet, terutama era dari Revolusi Oktober sampai kematian Stalin. Robert Service completes his masterful trilogy on the founding figures of the Soviet Union in an eagerly anticipated, authoritative biography of Leon Trotsky. The British publisher is Macmillan. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Robert Service completes his masterful trilogy on the founding figures of the Soviet Union in an eagerly anticipated, authoritative biography of Leon Trotsky. This book is very thick running to 600 pages but is very thin when it comes to an honest political examination and analysis of the ideas of Leon Trotsky, the subject of Service’ s tome. His reward for this is to be regularly attacked by Communists and their allies, and those attacks reached a fever pitch upon the publication of Trotsky in 2009. No_Favorite. So I started with Trotsky, perhaps the easiest of the 3 to review. Service is already the author of biographies of Lenin and Stalin, however, and these things run in … share ... Trotsky by Robert Service. By. by Bertrand M Patenaude 352pp, Faber, £20 His research interests concern Russian history and politics in all its aspects, from the late nineteenth century to the present day. He has made a career of dispassionately analyzing Communists and Communism, including writing biographies of Lenin and Stalin. The biographies of Lenin and Robert Service, one of our finest historians of Soviet Russia, has written the first full-length biography of Trotsky in English for over half a century. Robert Service, who authored biographies of V. I. Lenin and Joseph Stalin and a history of world communism, has now published a biography of Leon Trotsky. Review: Trotsky, a Biography by Robert Service. Robert Service, Trotsky. True, if not necessarily sufficient. Trotsky Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. A former Professor of Russian History at Oxford University and the author of several important works on Soviet history, Robert Service has been described by a fellow biographer of Stalin, Simon Sebag Montefiore, as ‘the founding maestro of Stalinist history’. Publication date 2009 EMBED. Robert Service talked about his newest book [Trotsky: A Biography] (Belknap Press, 2009). Trotsky is perhaps the most intriguing and, given his prominence, the most understudied of … Robert Service notes that his is ‘the first full-length biography of Trotsky written by someone outside Russia who is not a Trotskyist’. The chapters are similarly sized, each offering a detailed chunk of Trotsky's life , without being bogged down with minutia, yet still offering more than enough information to satisfy the reader. 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