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Lev Davidovich Trotsky burst onto the world stage in November 1917 as coleader of a Marxist Revolution seizing power in Russia. It made him one of the most recognized personalities of the twentieth century, a global icon of radical change.
Yet just months earlier, this same Lev Trotsky was a nobody, a refugee expelled from Europe, writing obscure pamphlets and speeches, barely noticed outside a small circle of fellow travelers. Where had he come from to topple Russia and change the world? Where else? New York City.
Between January and March 1917, Trotsky found refuge in the United States. America had kept itself out of the European Great War, leaving New York the freest city on earth. During his time there—just over ten weeks—Trotsky immersed himself in the local scene. He settled his family in the Bronx, edited a radical left wing tabloid in Greenwich Village, sampled the lifestyle, and plunged headlong into local politics. His clashes with leading New York socialists over the question of US entry into World War I would reshape the American left for the next fifty years.
© 2016 Blackstone Publishing (Ljudbok): 9781504786188
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Ljudbok: 13 december 2016
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3.9
Biografier
Lev Davidovich Trotsky burst onto the world stage in November 1917 as coleader of a Marxist Revolution seizing power in Russia. It made him one of the most recognized personalities of the twentieth century, a global icon of radical change.
Yet just months earlier, this same Lev Trotsky was a nobody, a refugee expelled from Europe, writing obscure pamphlets and speeches, barely noticed outside a small circle of fellow travelers. Where had he come from to topple Russia and change the world? Where else? New York City.
Between January and March 1917, Trotsky found refuge in the United States. America had kept itself out of the European Great War, leaving New York the freest city on earth. During his time there—just over ten weeks—Trotsky immersed himself in the local scene. He settled his family in the Bronx, edited a radical left wing tabloid in Greenwich Village, sampled the lifestyle, and plunged headlong into local politics. His clashes with leading New York socialists over the question of US entry into World War I would reshape the American left for the next fifty years.
© 2016 Blackstone Publishing (Ljudbok): 9781504786188
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Ljudbok: 13 december 2016
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Juno
19 maj 2020
Bra introduktion till Lev Trotskijs liv för den som är intresserad att lära sig mer om den ryska revolutionären och hans tänkande. Författaren målar upp en levande bild av det tidiga 1900-talets New York som han sen använder för att berätta en historia som lika mycket handlar om Ryssland. Boken vänder på många förutfattade meningar genom att fokusera på amerikansk socialism och belyser på så sätt en bortglömd del av världshistorien. Absolut läsvärd för den som är nyfiken på kommunistisk historia.
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