
Trotsky: A Biography (Robert Service)
The Worthy House (Charles Haywood)
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Trotsky, the Russian Revolution, and Bio-Leninism
There has been a recent vogue to ascribe the success of Communism to low-status people. This is apparently called bio-Leninism, according to some on the Fringy Rite. It's not true that Russian Communism recruited primarily from the lowest status case; it was intellectuals like Truski. To suggest that what drove Bolshevism's initial success was low status individuals getting back at those who lorded over them is bad history.
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