Il profeta armato: Trotskij 1879-1921

In my adorable years of late-teens and early-twenties 'radicalism,' some of my heroes (cultural, aesthetic, political) included Salvador Dalí, Karen Finley, Emma Goldman, Marcel Duchamp, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean-Luc Godard, Woody Allen, David Lynch, Rosa Luxemburg, Diamanda Galás, Jacques Derrida, Fri Leggi tutto

I read this first volume of three of Isaac Deutscher's massive biography of Leon Trotsky for a discussion group on Russian history. It turns out that seeing the Russian Revolution through the eyes of one man -- perhaps the most brilliant of the early Soviet leaders -- gave me a unique perception of

Very solid biography--more detailed than is perhaps necessary at times, but it's so well organized that you can skim over some of the more turgid debates, knowing that you'll be able to find that debate should you ever need to, which, I hope, you won't. It's ultra-intellectual, in the sense that Tro Leggi tutto

This is a book of big ideas and actions to match. Once Big Ideas were the norm. We've moved beyond that: through the period of little, lean and mean ideas to the time of No ideas. Ideas have been replaced by positions (supported by its mutant step-child, talking points) and those usually appear foss Leggi tutto

جهد جبار من المؤلف لتأريخ حياة تروتسكي بعدما حاول ستالين إخفاءها وطمس مجهوداته بسبب خلافاتهما. وجهد جبار كذلك من المترجم لترجمة عمل ضخم مثل هذا. في هذا الجزء بدأ من البدايات في حياة تروتسكي أو برونشتاين اسمه الحقيقي وما اسم تروتسكي إلا اسم أحد سجانيه الذي اتخذه قبل فراره، وياللعجب! والمؤلف اعتمد على Leggi tutto

Troçki’nin yaşam öyküsünü anlatan üç ciltlik kitap dizisinin ilk kitabı... Ekim devriminin öncesi, sonrasının ötesinde tarih anlatımı içeriyor. Troçki’nin sıra dışı yaşam öyküsünün arka planında Birinci Dünya savaşı öncesinde/sırasında Avrupa’da savaş karşıtı hareketleri, Barış isteyenleri, toplumsa Leggi tutto