Trotsky evinced a surprisingly glacial and schematic approach to making revolution. Service recounts Trotsky s role in the botched German revolution of 1923; ...

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 ...

Robert Service completes his masterful trilogy on the founding figures of the Soviet Union in an eagerly anticipated, authoritative biography of Leon ...

May 29, 2010 · Service is never unkind to his subject, but nor is he an acolyte. One of the great functions his book performs, aside from being a compelling ...

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 ...

Nov 12, 2009 · No, Trotsky lived for a dream which Robert Service finds a nightmare. Trotsky took seriously the goal of working class self-liberation and had ...

Sep 29, 2018 · Yes, "In The Service of Historical Falsification: A Review of Robert Service's Trotsky" by David North: http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2009 ...

Dec 19, 2009 · Service deals with Trotsky's life from boyhood to the end but concentrates on the critical period from his days as a youthful revolutionary and ...

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 ...

Oct 30, 2009 · Trotsky: A Biography. by Robert Service 600pp, Macmillan, £25. Stalin's Nemesis: The Exile and Murder of Leon Trotsky.