In defense of Leon Trotsky
Two lectures on Leon Trotsky's life and ideasToward a reconsideration of Trotsky's place in the history of the 20th century -- Leon Trotsky, Soviet historiography, and the fate of classical Marxism -- The post-Soviet school of historical falsification: a review of two biographies of Leon T...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Oak Park, Michigan
Mehring Books
2013
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| Ausgabe: | 2. ed. |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Two lectures on Leon Trotsky's life and ideasToward a reconsideration of Trotsky's place in the history of the 20th century -- Leon Trotsky, Soviet historiography, and the fate of classical Marxism -- The post-Soviet school of historical falsification: a review of two biographies of Leon Trotsky by professors Geoffrey Swain and Ian Thatcher -- Stalin's terror and the political lie -- Swain, Thatcher and the "myth" of Trotsky -- Thatcher's method of historical falsification -- When lies are told against history -- Robert Service's contribution to the falsification of history -- Robert Service's Trotsky -- Political biography and the historical lie -- Trotsky's enduring significance -- The biographer as character assassin -- Seventy years since the assassination of Leon Trotsky -- Report to a meeting in Berlin on October 17, 2010 -- Assessing Leon Trotsky seventy years after his assassination -- Report given at the annual convention of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, November 21, 2010 -- Leon Trotsky and the defense of historical truth -- Lecture at the University of Leipzig on March 16, 2012 -- Lecture at Historians' Convention: in defense of Leon Trotsky -- Lecture given at the Historians' Convention at the University of Mainz in Germany, September 27, 2012. |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes index |
| Beschreibung: | XVII, 259 S. Ill. 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781893638365 978-1-893638-36-5 9781893638396 |