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LEON TROTSKY
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Length:
24 minutes
Released:
Dec 23, 2022
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Podcast episode
Description
Born Lev Davidovich Bronstein in southern Ukraine, Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) was a revolutionary figure who led an upheaval that helped define the contours of twentieth-century politics.Join us with Joshua Rubenstein, author of the Jewish Lives biography Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary’s Life, as we uncover the brilliant and brilliantly flawed man who was both a world-class intellectual and a man capable of the most narrow-minded ideological dogmatism.
Released:
Dec 23, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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