{"product_id":"the-prophet-armed-trotsky-18791921-9781859844410","title":"The Prophet Armed: Trotsky 1879-1921","description":"\u003cp\u003eFew political figures of the twentieth century have aroused as much controversy as the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky. Trotskys extraordinary life and extensive writings have left an indelible mark on revolutionary conscience; and yet there was at one time a danger that his name would disappear altogether from history. Isaac Deutschers magisterial three-volume biography was the first major publication to counter the powerful Stalinist propaganda machine  and in this definitive work Trotsky emerges in his real stature  as the most heroic  and ultimately tragic  character of the Russian revolution.  This first volume of the trilogy  originally published in 1954  traces Trotskys political development: his early activities  the formation and crystallization of his distinctive and motivating ideathe permanent revolution his long feud and final reconciliation with Lenin and Bolshevism  and his role in the October insurrection of 1917. The volume ends in the year 1921  when Trotsky  then at the climax of his power  unwittingly sowed the seeds of his own defeat.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45665849147445,"sku":"ByrdShop_1859844413","price":88.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781859844410.jpg?v=1782410171","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-prophet-armed-trotsky-18791921-9781859844410","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}