Trotsky for Beginners
1980
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Together with Lenin, Trotsky was one of the architects of the Russian Revolution. A great orator, a skillful military tactician, a gifted historian and an unpredictable cultural throrist, Trotsky was brought down by inner-party factionalism, exiled and then executed by Stalin. ntroducing trotsky and Marxism shows how Trotsky's prophetic inshights foresaw the rise of Hitler and the price humanity would hav to pay.
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Tariq Ali
Author · 34 books
Tariq Ali (Punjabi, Urdu: طارق علی) is a British-Pakistani historian, novelist, filmmaker, political campaigner, and commentator. He is a member of the editorial committee of the New Left Review and Sin Permiso, and regularly contributes to The Guardian, CounterPunch, and the London Review of Books. He is the author of several books, including Can Pakistan Survive? The Death of a State (1991), Pirates Of The Caribbean: Axis Of Hope (2006), Conversations with Edward Said (2005), Bush in Babylon (2003), and Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity (2002), A Banker for All Seasons (2007) and the recently published The Duel (2008).
