Trotsky

A Biography

Robert Service

    • List of Illustrations
    • Maps
    • Preface
    • A Note on Usages
    • Introduction

      Part One: 1879–1913

    1. The Family Bronstein
    2. Upbringing
    3. Schooling
    4. The Young Revolutionary
    5. Love And Prison
    6. Siberian Exile
    7. Iskra
    8. Cutting Loose
    9. The Year 1905
    10. Trial And Punishment
    11. Again The Emigrant
    12. Unifier
    13. Special Correspondent

      14. Part Two: 1914–1919

    14. War On The War
    15. Designs For Revolution
    16. Atlantic Crossings
    17. Nearly A Bolshevik
    18. Threats And Promises
    19. Seizure Of Power
    20. People's Commissar
    21. Trotsky And The Jews
    22. Brest-Litovsk
    23. Kazan And After
    24. Almost The Commander
    25. Red Victory
    26. World Revolution

      27. Part Three: 1920–1928

    27. Images And The Life
    28. Peace And War
    29. Back From The Brink
    30. Disputing About Reform
    31. The Politics Of Illness
    32. The Left Opposition
    33. On The Cultural Front
    34. Failing To Succeed
    35. Entourage And Faction
    36. Living With Trotsky
    37. What Trotsky Wanted
    38. Last Stand In Moscow
    39. Alma-Ata

      40. Part Four: 1929–1940

    40. Bü Yü Kada
    41. Looking For Revolutions
    42. The Writer
    43. Russian Connections
    44. Europe South And North
    45. Setting Up In Mexico
    46. The Fourth International
    47. Trotsky And His Women
    48. 'The Russian Question'
    49. Confronting The Philosophers
    50. The Second World War
    51. Assassination
    52. The Keepers And The Flame
    • Notes
    • Select Bibliography
    • Index
  • Cover: Trotsky
  • A photo of the author

Robert Service is a Fellow of the British Academy and Professor of Russian History at Oxford University.