Tunku Varadarajan writes that Robert Service’s biography of Leon Trotsky “attracted the ire of die-hard Trotskyites world-wide for saying that their hero shared many basic ideas with Lenin and ...

Having covered Lenin and Stalin, Oxford history professor Service completes his biographical trilogy with the life of Leon Trotsky. Thick and intensely researched but a pleasure to read ...

Trotsky was Jewish—born Lev Davidovich Bronstein in 1879—and it is as such that he is treated in Joshua Rubenstein's brief biography, part of Yale University Press's Jewish Lives series.

He is also the author of Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary, published by Harper Collins in 2009. Service’s biography was published to great acclaim in 2009. Its relentless attack on Trotsky ...

A few years ago, she passed it on to a young filmmaker who brought the photographs and negative to the Graphic Arts Collection at Princeton University, where they will soon be available for research.

North will examine Professor Service’s recently published biography as a symptomatic expression ... the Russian Revolution and the life of Leon Trotsky. Wednesday, May 5, 7:00 p.m. Leon Trotsky ...

A recent review in the prestigious American Historical Review disparaged a new biography harshly critical of Trotsky, saying it “commits numerous distortions and outright errors of fact to the ...