Trotsky: The Eternal Revolutionary
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作者Dmitri Volkogonov
出版社The Free Press
ISBN9781416576648
出版时间1996
版次1 edition
印刷时间1996
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页数560页
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货号E580
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本书原定价35.95美元，净重970克，馆藏。【图书分类：俄罗斯社会政治人物传记】Together with Lenin, Trotsky was the most charismatic and dominating figure of the Russian revolution. A dynamic public speaker, a brilliant organizer and theorist, he was largely responsible for advocating the system of state terror which was ultimately to lead to the nightmare of Stalinism. This biography describes Trotsky's career as a revolutionary before World War I and his roles successively as chief organizer of the October revolution, military hero of the Russian civil war and outspoken critic of the Stalinst style of leadership. Widely regarded as Lenin's likely successor, Trotsky was outmanoeuvred by his enemy, Stalin and found himself expelled from the Communist Party, written out of the history of the revolution, exiled and finally murdered in Mexico by Stalin's agents. The author tracked down members of Stalin's overseas hit-squad and found relatives of Trotsky in Russia. Combined with his access to Soviet archives, this biography lends insight into one of the most influential figures of the 20th century, whose faith in the world socialist revolution remained undimmed to the end.
At last, based on full access to Soviet and Western archives and interviews with surviving members of the Trotsky family and others, Dmitri Volkogonov offers a breakthrough reinterpretation. No source is ignored: Volkogonov even interviewed a member of Stalin's NKVD hit squad that assassinated Trotsky. Through his access to internal memos sent between Trotsky, Lenin, and Stalin, we learn of the blistering intensity of the animus between Stalin and Trotsky that began under Lenin with petty disputes over military strategy, continued under Stalin with a series of public trials of so-called Trotskyites, and culminated in the eventual assassination of Trotsky. The result is a stunning work, one that compares the flesh-and-blood Trotsky with the Orator-in-Chief of revolutionary ideology, and discovers contradictions both profound and deadly. Volkogonov unsparingly illustrates Trotsky's rigidity and ruthlessness and takes issue with Trotsky's military leadership. He shows us that Trotsky's unwavering, monomaniacal commitment to world communist revolution made him, at times, both corrupt and foolishly myopic. We learn that Trotsky was both the man who gave away his own gold watch to a brave Red Army soldier and the man who advocated the use of blocking units, in which a rear line of soldiers were ordered to shoot their frontline comrades if they failed to charge. Ultimately, as Volkogonov shows, the tragedy of Trotsky is that his internal inconsistencies were a natural part of the entire revolutionary movement, for 'Trotsky had declared intellectual war on virtually everyone.' Volkogonov's account of the 'eternal revolutionary' will stand as definitive for many years to come.
From Publishers Weekly：
Although for years Trotsky had condemned Lenin as a potential dictator, in 1917 he became a radical Bolshevik, a hard-line Leninist committed to a one-party state with a monopoly of power sustained through terror and violence. Together with Lenin, the military leader and fiery orator (born Lev Davidovich Bronstein in 1879) liquidated opponents, inaugurated forced collective labor and unleashed a violent campaign against religion. Using hitherto unavailable materials from Soviet archives, Volkogonov, special assistant to Boris Yeltsin, persuasively argues that Trotsky, while preaching global revolution, helped Lenin lay the foundations of a repressive domestic system that grew organically into the totalitarian dictatorship presided over by Stalin, Trotsky's rival. Assassinated in Mexico in 1940 by one of Stalin's henchmen, Trotsky, according to this meticulous, dense political biography, shares responsibility for the Red Terror that claimed him as victim. Complementing Volkogonov's recent critical biographies of Stalin and Lenin, this compelling study lays to rest the image of Trotsky as a persecuted idealist, blameless victim of Stalin's duplicity.
From Library Journal：
Currently a special assistant to Russia's President Boris Yeltsin, Volkogonov (Lenin: A New Biography, LJ 10/15/94, and Stalin: Triumph and Tragedy, LJ 9/15/91) has carefully mined mountains of newly released sources in this study of Trotsky. The latest effort is a well-conceived political biography that clearly redresses the paucity of reliable works on the enigmatic Trotsky. It captures his enormous energy, his restless intellect, and his unswerving faith in the inevitability of world revolution. Volkogonov's subject has a tragic Greek cast?from his meteoric rise under Lenin to his brutal demise under Stalin. The present work complements and frequently overshadows Isaac Deutscher's comprehensive three-volume study (1954-63). Recommended for all but the smallest collections.?Mark R. Yerburgh, Fern Ridge Community Lib., Veneta, Ore.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist：
Creator and leader of the Red Army, Trotsky earned his mystique by rushing to threatened fronts in his armored train, delivering inspiring speeches, and shooting counterrevolutionaries and deserters by the thousands in prosecuting the proletarian cause. It was his political ineptness that caused him to lose the postwar power struggle to Stalin. The late Volkogonov wrote this biography directly for Russian readers, many of whom knew Trotsky only as the archfiend of Stalinist demonology. Interested Westerners will also find this work extremely valuable as a counterpoint to the hagiographic The Prophet trilogy by Isaac Deutscher. Clearly the most colorful, literary, and oratorical of the Bolsheviks, Trotsky gets his due from Volkogonov (who quotes many fascinating extracts from the once-forbidden Soviet archives). As the lava of the revolutionary eruption cooled, Trotsky's bewitchment with world revolution became sorely dated. In this milestone portrait, Trotsky regains both his heroic and flawed aspects as a larger-than-life historical figure.
Review：
'Volkogonov is the first historian to have had access to the enormous archives in Moscow adn to make full use of his opportunity... there's plenty for hte general reader in Harold Shulman's admirable translation.' David Floyd, Daily Telegraph 'In every part of his narrative Volkogonov has deployed previously unknown detail, often in striking and illuminating fashion.' Robert Conquest, New Republic
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