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In defense of Leon Trotsky / by David North.
- Title
- In defense of Leon Trotsky / by David North.
- Author
- North, David.
- Publication
- Oak Park, Mich. : Mehring Books, 2010.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | DK254.T6 N67 2010 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xi, 144 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Subject
- Trotsky, Leon, 1879-1940
- Trotsky, Leon, 1879-1940 > Political and social views
- Trotsky, Leon, 1879-1940 > Influence
- Revolutionaries > Soviet Union > Biography
- Statesmen > Soviet Union > Biography
- Biography > Political aspects
- Historiography > Political aspects
- Communism > Historiography
- Soviet Union > Errors, inventions, etc
- Soviet Union > Historiography
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibligraphical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- pt. 1. Two lectures on Leon Trotsky's life and ideas -- Toward a reconsideration of Trotsky's place in the history of the 20th century -- Leon Trotsky, Soviet historiography, and the fate of classical Marxism -- pt. 2. 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 -- pt. 3. 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.
- ISBN
- 9781893638051 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2010028363
- OCLC
- 649078419
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library