Trotsky

Geoffrey Swain (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

248 Seiten

2006
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-582-77190-1 (ISBN)

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Presents a fresh look at Trotsky that provides insights into his personality, life, career and political ideas. This biography also offers a fresh interpretation of Trotsky's career, and focuses on Trotksy's years in power: his pre-Revolutionary life, his role during the 1917 revolution and civil war, and his part in constructing the soviet state.

Without Trotsky there would have been no Bolshevik Revolution, but Trotsky was no Bolshevik.

Providing a full account of Trotskys role during the Russian Civil War and concentrating on his time as an active participant in Russian revolutionary politics, rather than his ideological writings of emigration, Swain gives a very different picture of the Bolshevik Commissar of War. This radically new interpretation of Trotskys career spanning 1905-1917 incorporates the tense relationship between Trotsky and Lenin until 1917, and pays particular attention to the Russian Civil War and Trotskys military organisation and contribution to the war.

Swain argues critically that Trotsky achieved where Lenin would have failed, suggesting that Trotsky was in the main part responsible for the Bolshevik Revolution.

Geoffrey Swain teaches at the Schoolof History at the Universityof West England, Bristol. As of April 2006 Swain will be Alec Nove Professor of Russian and East European Studies at the Universityof Glasgow

Introduction

1. The Precocious Apprentice

Growing Up

The South Russia Workers Union

For Iskra, against Lenin

The 1905 Revolution

Results and Prospects

2. Revitalising the Party

The Disintegrating Party

Vienna Pravda

The Vienna Conference

The Balkan Wars

The Interdistrict Group and Borba

The First World War

3. Insurrection

Joining the Bolsheviks

The July Days

Towards October

Uprising

Brest Litovsk

Rebuilding the Army

4. Saving the Revolution

Uprising on the Volga

Sviyazhsk

Tsaritsyn

The Military Opposition

The Kolchak Offensive

Disintegration of the Southern Front

Command Crisis and Victory

5. Building a Workers State

Labour Armies

The Polish Army

The Trade Union Debate

Gosplan

With Lenin

The German October

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6. Combating Thermidor

A Petty Bourgeois Deviation

The Lessons of October

The Dnieper Dam

Zinoviev, Kamenev and the Kulak Danger

The United Opposition

China

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7. Exile and Internationalism

Stalins Zig-Zag

A Coalition Central Committee

Reviving the International

Frida Kahlo

The Fourth International

Assassination

Conclusion

Erscheint lt. Verlag	20.7.2006
Reihe/Serie	Profiles In Power
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	211 x 133 mm
Gewicht	696 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	0-582-77190-0 / 0582771900
ISBN-13	978-0-582-77190-1 / 9780582771901
Zustand	Neuware