Born Lev Davidovich Bronstein in southern Ukraine, Trotsky was both a world-class intellectual and a man capable of the most narrow-minded ideological dogmatism. He was an effective military strategist and an adept diplomat, who staked the fate of the Bolshevik revolution on the meager foundation of a Europe-wide Communist upheaval. He was a master politician who played his cards badly in the momentous struggle for power against Stalin in the 1920s. And he was an assimilated, indifferent Jew who was among the first to foresee that Hitler's triumph would mean disaster for his fellow European Jews, and that Stalin would attempt to forge an alliance with Hitler if Soviet overtures to the Western democracies failed. Here, Trotsky emerges as a brilliant yet flawed man. Rubenstein offers us a Trotsky who is mentally acute and impatient with others, one of the finest students of contemporary politics who refused to engage in the nitty-gritty of party organization in the 1920s, when Stalin was manoeuvering, inexorably, toward Trotsky's own political oblivion. As Joshua Rubenstein writes in his preface, 'Leon Trotsky haunts our historical memory. A preeminent revolutionary figure and a masterful writer, Trotsky led an upheaval that helped to define the contours of twentieth-century politics'. In this lucid and judicious evocation of Trotsky's life, Joshua Rubenstein gives us an interpretation for the twenty-first century.
1 有用 P 2019-07-30 05:38:22
革命的理想如此崇高浪漫,然而托洛茨基對現實的掌握如此薄弱,一次又一次被史太林的權術擊倒;十多年流亡海外到最後被暗殺,是否真的無可避免。列寧死得早,不然共產主義的故事可能會換個模樣......
0 有用 Llewsniav 2015-12-14 00:23:16
不要遗忘他,某种意义上真正的人。第一次读英文的和俄有关的事情,同时了解了一些背景。就描写而言部分单薄。
1 有用 P 2019-07-30 05:38:22
革命的理想如此崇高浪漫,然而托洛茨基對現實的掌握如此薄弱,一次又一次被史太林的權術擊倒;十多年流亡海外到最後被暗殺,是否真的無可避免。列寧死得早,不然共產主義的故事可能會換個模樣......
0 有用 Llewsniav 2015-12-14 00:23:16
不要遗忘他,某种意义上真正的人。第一次读英文的和俄有关的事情,同时了解了一些背景。就描写而言部分单薄。