Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary's Life (Jewish Lives) - Hardcover

Rubenstein, Joshua

9780300137248: Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary's Life (Jewish Lives)

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ISBN 10: 0300137249 ISBN 13: 9780300137248

Verlag: Yale University Press, 2011

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"Joshua Rubenstein has told a fascinating story in this book. It is very well documented, with close attention to the sources in several languages, and yet it reads like a novel."-Rabbi Jack Riemer, South Florida Jewish Journal -- Rabbi Jack Riemer * South Florida Jewish Journal * "Joshua Rubenstein's succinct account of Leon Trotsky's life rescues the Russian radical from a remoteness, positioning him at a useful distance for contemporary readers."-Harvey Blume, ArtsFuse -- Harvey Blume * ArtsFuse * "An exemplary biography... Rubenstein depicts Trotsky as a tragic hero, a complex man whose brilliance and fallibility were inseparable."-Judith Maas, Jewish Advocate -- Judith Maas * Jewish Advocate * "An accessible scholarly account of a man whose life spanned continents, whose charisma was legendary and whose ideas sparked a revolution and its backlash."-Kirkus Reviews * Kirkus Reviews * "As much a myth and a legend as a man, Leon Trotsky is an individual of deep contradictions... Fast-paced and engaging, Rubenstein's brief biography provides a solid introduction to the period and a detailed examination of a man much studied but little understood."-Publishers Weekly * Publishers Weekly * "Joshua Rubenstein has produced a steadily intelligent, insightful biography of one the last century's most alluring intellectual-politicians, a man of astonishing brilliance and no less astonishing rigidities."-Steven J. Zipperstein, author of Imagining Russian Jewry: Memory, History, Identity -- Steven J. Zipperstein "In this new, concise biography, Rubenstein offers a more balanced view of Trotsky....There are many reasons to commend this work - among them, Rubenstein's depoliticization of its subject and the book's succinctness and readability."-Peter Ephross, The Forward -- Peter Ephross * The Forward * "This trim book . . . pulls together all the essentials of the life of Leon Trotsky and the revolution he so significantly shaped into a seamless, intelligent, and wonderfully accessible synopsis."-Robert Legvold, Foreign Affairs -- Robert Legvold * Foreign Affairs *

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A clear-eyed exploration of the career of Leon Trotsky, the tragic hero who "dreamed of justice and then wreaked havoc," by a leading expert on human rights and the former Soviet Union Born 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 1920s. 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 1920s, 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.

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VerlagYale University Press
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ISBN 13 9780300137248
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