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October 27, 2017
in European History

Leon Trotsky, a Hundred Years After the Russian Revolution

October 27, 2017
in European History

Joshua Rubenstein— The romantic figure of Leon Trotsky, a man who helped lead the Bolsheviks to power a hundred years ago and then came to embody defiance of Joseph Stalin, continues to haunt our imagination. He joined the Bolsheviks as an outspoken teenager, then endured arrest and Siberian exile before

October 27, 2011
in European History, History, Religion

Eminent Biography: Joshua Rubenstein on Leon Trotsky

October 27, 2011
in European History, History, Religion

For our latest “Eminent Biography” installment, Joshua Rubenstein reflects on his writing of the tumultuous political career of Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary’s Life, the latest in Yale University Press’s Jewish Lives series. Often remembered as persecutor turned persecuted, Leon Trotsky was a central figure in the global political drama between