Profiles in Power: Trotsky
30 Aug 06

“… a robust, highly readable and fresh look at Trotsky that provides new insights into his personality, life, career and political ideas.”
- Professor Christopher Read,  University of Warwick

Without Trotsky there would have been no Russian Revolution, no victory after Civil War and ultimately no Soviet Union . Romantics see him as the more restrained alternative to Stalin, the man who inspired the masses and should’ve been Lenin’s heir.

Using previously unexplored archive material; this new book reveals a more rounded character, at the height of his powers and with a definite ruthless streak who, far from being Lenin’s heir, experienced increasingly tense relationships with both with Lenin and Stalin

In Profiles in Power: Trotsky Geoffrey Swain argues that Trotsky achieved where Lenin would have failed and that he was in the main part responsible for the Bolshevik Revolution.

Swain explores in detail Trotsky’s role in founding the Red Army, which is frequently summarised, but never analysed. He also shows how Trotsky’s ideas on military organisation became the basis for his vision of a future socialist society. It was this continued adherence to the idea of permanent revolution that meant he fatally misunderstood the nature of the struggles taking place around him and the implications to his future.

	Trotsky
	Author	Geoffrey Swain
	Pub Date	20 Jul 2006
	Price	£14.99
	Publisher	Longman
	ISBN10	0582771900
	ISBN13	9780582771901
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