Trotsky's

Mr. Service, however, clarifies an aspect of Trotsky's belief and behavior that bears directly on what Mr. Rubenstein calls Trotsky's "curiously passive" stance during the period after Lenin's death, when Stalin was busily lining up allies and consolidating his hold on power.

A Jewish Revolutionary Carl Rollyson 2011

Trotsky's assassin is revealed in them as a man trapped by the obedience of the militant, one who believed everything his superiors told him.

Yoani Sanchez: Join, Silence, Kill: Stalinism Alive in Cuba Yoani Sanchez 2011

How can the biographer say being a Jew was important to Trotsky when Trotsky's public pronouncements and actions—and even his private behavior—seem devoid of any sort of Jewish resonance.

A Jewish Revolutionary Carl Rollyson 2011

As the last word on Trotsky as Jew, it seems surprisingly reluctant to pick up on the strains in history and in Trotsky's own character that made it impossible for a Jew to command Lenin's legacy.

A Jewish Revolutionary Carl Rollyson 2011

And yet a biographer charged with looking at a single issue and how it played out in Trotsky's life might just want to exercise a little boldness, not refuting the multiple reasons for Trotsky's failure to seize power but suffusing them with the underlying premise that, in the eyes of so many others, once a Jew, always a Jew—as Trotsky himself knew full well.

A Jewish Revolutionary Carl Rollyson 2011

Trotsky's assassin is revealed in them as a man trapped by the obedience of the militant, one who believed everything his superiors told him.

Yoani Sanchez: Join, Silence, Kill: Stalinism Alive in Cuba Yoani Sanchez 2011

Arthur Ransome, then a journalist, served as a British agent in the aftermath of the October Revolution, married Trotsky's secretary and in retirement wrote Swallows and Amazons, a children's book full of juvenile tradecraft: cryptic telegrams, daring missions and secret lore.

MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service, 1909-1949 by Keith Jeffery Robert McCrum 2010

Trotsky's assassin is revealed in them as a man trapped by the obedience of the militant, one who believed everything his superiors told him.

Yoani Sanchez: Join, Silence, Kill: Stalinism Alive in Cuba Yoani Sanchez 2011

Trotsky's assassin is revealed in them as a man trapped by the obedience of the militant, one who believed everything his superiors told him.

Yoani Sanchez: Join, Silence, Kill: Stalinism Alive in Cuba Yoani Sanchez 2011

The cautious Mr. Rubenstein notes that Trotsky's commitment to social justice had "several sources," none of which Trotsky attributed to his Jewish upbringing.

A Jewish Revolutionary Carl Rollyson 2011