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Article: BOOK OF THE WEEK BIOGRAPHY Trotsky By Robert Service MACMILLAN, pounds 25, 600 pp Being Stalin's great enemy does not make Trotsky in any way a good man, says Simon Sebag Montefiore
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
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- October 11, 2009
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Trotsky, like Mao and to some extent Lenin, has long been one of
those Communist titans who, for some, achieved the status of
fashionable radical saints, even in the democracies that they would
have destroyed in an orgy of bloodletting. Trotsky's glamour derives
from his role as Stalin's greatest enemy, but he was also
wonderfully equipped for his role as revolutionary statesman - and
to be a hero to misguided Westerners and schoolboys.
He possessed the necessary looks and style - the blue eyes, the
shock of hair, the round glasses, the fine suits - to go with the
wizardly oratory and flamboyant writing. He was the coiner of many a
felicitous sentence - Stalin was the 'most eminent ...
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