Trotsky: A Biography (Robert Service)
The Worthy House (Charles Haywood)
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Charles Haywood: I continue to be fascinated by the Bolshevik Revolution, because in its success there are many lessons. He says Robert Service has made a career of dispassionately analyzing communists and communism. Since service shows definitively that Trotsky was just as much an evil killer as Stalin or Lenin, final communists were not pleased, he writes.Haywood: The point of such attempts is not to actually succeed against people like service, but to warn the less established that they must toe the line.
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