Obras por Allan Todd
History for the IB Diploma: Origins and Development of Authoritarian and Single Party States (2011) 22 exemplares
History for the IB Diploma Paper 2 The Cold War:: Superpower Tensions and Rivalries (2015) 3 exemplares
Las revoluciones 1789-1917 / The Revolutions 1789-1917 (El Libro Universitario. Materiales) (Spanish Edition) (2000) 2 exemplares
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Since his death, murder or assassination depends which side of the fence you sit on, there have been numerous biographies about Leon Trotsky. Some biographies are sympathetic, overly so in some, and like his most recent by Robert Service very critical. Trotsky really does divide opinion.
Trotsky since his death has been described as many things such as a revolutionary practitioner, a political theorist, a factional chief, engaging writer, a ‘ladies’ man’ (his affair with Frieda Kahlo often used an example of this), an icon of the Revolution, the anti-Jewish Jew, a philosopher of everyday life, a father and hunted victim, Trotsky lived an amazing life in extraordinary times. His adherents have represented Trotsky as a pure revolutionary soul and a powerful intellect unjustly hounded into exile by Stalin and his henchmen.
Allan Todd takes the view that Trotsky was a passionate person in everything that he did. Leon Trotsky was a person who rose from obscurity to be an active member of both 1905 and 1917 revolutions. He was the man who organised the Red Army from a shambles to an organised fighting force. One only has to look at the shambles he had to deal with when the political commissar Joseph Stalin made such a mess of the Russo-Polish war.
Todd has tried to do something which other biographers have not done, capture is passions without the one-eyed reverence of a Marxist, or the hatred of his politics which some have assessed him by. Todd is not a hostage to fortune or trying to enhance the Trotsky myths which seem to grow by the year. He does highlight Trotsky’s love live and the literary career that sustained him in exile. These are often passed over in other biographies.
This is an excellent book exploring Trotsky’s passions rather a political biography of which there are hundreds out there. This brings something new to the reader, which is always important in research.
An excellent book.… (mais)