Trotsky

Although Trotsky had a limited understanding of crucial contemporary events such as Hitler's rise to power, he was an important thinker and politician, not least as a trenchant critic of Stalin's version of communism. This study provides a clear and accessible introduction to Trotsky's life and thought for anyoneinterested in twentieth-century Russian and World History.

Ian D. Thatcher lectures in Modern Russian History at the University of Leicester. His previous publications include Leon Trotsky and World War One(2000) and Regime and Society in Twentieth-Century Russia(1999).

INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1 THE YOUNG REVOLUTIONARY, 1879-1907; Chapter 2 THE FIGHT FOR UNITY, 1907-14; Chapter 3 WAR AND REVOLUTION, 1914-17; Chapter 4 DEFENDING THE REVOLUTION, 1917-21; Chapter 5 THE REVOLUTION IN DECLINE, 1921-4; Chapter 6 OPPOSITION AND DEFEAT, 1925-9; Chapter 7 AGAINST STALINISM AND FASCISM, 1929-33; Chapter 8 THE FINAL EXILE; CONCLUSION; NOTES; FURTHER READING; Index;