Trotsky: A Biography is a crude and offensive book, produced without respect for the most minimal standards of scholarship. Service's “research,” if one wishes ...
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Nov 12, 2009 · The book is not a political assessment of a political figure. Rather it as an account where personal trivia is elevated to the same level as ...
May 29, 2010 · Robert Service's biography of the Russian revolutionary reveals the real reason Trotsky was outmanoeuvred by Stalin, says Rafael Behr.
A review of the biography written by the right-wing British historian Norman Stone, an admirer of Margaret Thatcher and Augusto Pinochet, is entitled “The Ice ...
Oct 1, 2012 · Robert Service, professor of Russian History at Oxford University, counters such speculative thinking with his new biography on Trotsky. Coming ...
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In this compelling biography, Service offers an honest summary of his difficult character and questions the image of Trotsky as a pure humanitarian soul and ...
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Oct 14, 2009 · This book is very thick – running to 600 pages – but is very thin when it comes to an honest political examination and analysis of the ideas ...
Jan 22, 2010 · Service focuses more sharply on Trotsky's negative aspects. He was arrogant, did not suffer fools gladly, had no real friends and viewed ...
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Dec 1, 2009 · Trotsky is fascinating, detailed, highly intelligent, and meticulously researched but less satisfying than Service's previous two biographies on ...
Jun 1, 2011 · Service seeks to portray Trotsky as a man who was coldly indifferent to the births of his children and whose political obsessions make him ...
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