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In defense of Leon Trotsky / David North.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- North, David, 1950- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Historiography--Political aspects.
- Historiography.
- Biography.
- Communism--Historiography.
- Communism.
- History.
- Soviet Union--History--Errors, inventions, etc.
- Soviet Union.
- Trotsky, Leon, 1879-1940.
- Trotsky, Leon.
- Swain, Geoff. Trotsky.
- Swain, Geoff.
- Thatcher, Ian D. Trotsky.
- Thatcher, Ian D.
- Service, Robert, 1947- Trotsky.
- Service, Robert.
- Revolutionaries--Soviet Union--Biography.
- Revolutionaries.
- Biography--Political aspects.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 259 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oak Park, Michigan : Mehring Books, 2013.
- Contents:
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Seventy years since the assassination of Leon Trotsky
- Report to a meeting in Berlin on October 17, 2010
- Assessing Leon Trotsky seventy years after his assassination
- Report given at the annual convention of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, November 21, 2010
- Leon Trotsky and the defense of historical truth
- Lecture at the University of Leipzig on March 16, 2012
- Lecture at Historians' Convention: in defense of Leon Trotsky
- Lecture given at the Historians' Convention at the University of Mainz in Germany, September 27, 2012.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Herman V. Ames Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781893638365
- 1893638367
- OCLC:
- 844790074
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