Review of Trotsky: A Biography, by Robert Service (Cambridge, MA, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009)
… humane. Robert Service, professor of Russian History at Oxford University, counters such speculative thinking with his new biography on Trotsky. Coming after his previous biographies on Lenin and Stalin, … to Siberia. In 1902, after reading Iskra , the Marxist newspaper edited by Lenin and Georgi Plekhanov (1857-1918), …