Trotsky : downfall of a revolutionary /
Bertrand M. Patenaude
Bok · Engelsk · 2010 · Biographies.
| Utgitt | New York : : Harper, , c2010.
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| Omfang | 370 p. : : ill. ;
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| Utgave | 1st ed.
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| Opplysninger | Armored train -- Mastermind -- Man of October -- Day of the dead -- The trouble with father -- Prisoners and provocateurs -- Fellow travelers -- The great dictator -- To the Finland station -- Lucky strike -- Deadline.. - Historian Patenaude, a lecturer at Stanford, concentrates on the period from 1937, when Trotsky arrived in Mexico, to his assassination in 1940, painting a vivid portrait of Lenin's former right-hand man: his stormy relations with his flamboyant Mexican champion (and later enemy), artist Diego Rivera; his dealings with his American supporters; and the relentless efforts of Stalin's GPU to kill him.
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| Emner | Trotsky, Leon, , 1879-1940 - Assassination.
Exiles - Mexico Revolutionaries - Soviet Union Statesmen - Soviet Union |
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| ISBN | 9780060820688
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