History: Review of New Books, September 22nd, 2000
Thatcher, Ian D. Leon Trotsky and World War I: August 1914-February 1917 New York: St. Martin's Press 262 pp., $65.00, ISBN 0-312-23487-2 Publication Date: August 2000
Ian D. Thatcher, of the University of Leicester, analyzes Leon Trotsky's wartime journalism in this slim volume. Thatcher is the author of four other works on twentieth-century socialism and Russia.
Unable to tour battle fronts and hampered by vigorous wartime censorship, Trotsky spent the majority of his time developing theories on the origin and consequences of the war and battling with other socialists on the correct line...
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