Trotsky biography

[Kirsty McCluskey]

Regarding the Service biography  - my views on it aside - I think it is best
engaged with in the context of a wider reading of Trotsky biography.  I
wouldn't recommend it as a standalone read in the way that, say, Deutscher
can provide a good general orientation.

Best, Kirsty McCluskey

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 11:39 AM, David Powelstock
<powelstock at brandeis.edu>wrote:

> Deutscher is the classic, of course, but dated by now in its sources. There
> is a new book, which I haven't yet read, that apparently takes a
> de-mythologizing approach, _Trotsky: A Biography_ by Robert Service:
> http://tinyurl.com/ycf2pfs.
>
> Cheers,
> David P(owelstock)
>
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>
> Kirsty McCluskey pisze:
>
> > Definitive?  No... but I would argue that Isaac Deutscher's trilogy is
> the
> > most durable and the most solid as a general biography of Trotsky.  There
> > are recent works of great value too which reconsider important elements
> of
> > his analysis, but Deutscher is the best and most comprehensive starting
> > point, I believe.
>
> Glad to hear. My opinion, exactly.
>
> Jan Zielinski
> Berne
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