Trotsky : a documentary / by Francis Wyndham and David King.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York, NY : Praeger Publishers, 1972Description: 204 pages : black and white illustrations ; 31 cmISBN:- 0713903341
- 947.084/092/4 B
- DK 254 .T6 W88 1972
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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BOOKS | Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library General Stacks | DK 254 .T6 W88 1972 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not For Loan | NPML21060022 |
This resource is fully illustrated with black and white photographs depicting people, locations, and events related to Trotsky's personal life and political career.
This resource contains bibliographical references (page 202) and index.
Page 7: Conspiracy -- 39: Power -- 89: Downfall -- 119: Exile -- 165: Assassination.
"[Trotsky: A Documentary]'s purpose is to document in photographs (including some reproductions of archival material), posters, and cartoons the life of Trotsky. The pictures, some in color, are well reproduced, better than elsewhere, though of course a number were poor to begin with. Quite a few have not been published before or are little known. The scope is the entire span of Trotsky's life, but the period up to 1917 is represented by only thirteen pictures of him...The text, which is about one-fifth of the book, is based on Trotsky's own and Isaac Deutscher's writings except for the period 1929-40, for which it draws heavily on personal recollections of Trotsky's entourage...The book gives us a vivid and intimate picture of Trotsky's relations with his closest family and friends during the peregrinations from Turkey to France to Norway and, finally, to Mexico. We learn also about his emotional reactions to political developments—his anxieties, hopes, and moments of low morale, though never despair—and the volume as a whole substantially contributes to our understanding of Trotsky the man." - From Slavic Review
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