Volume 25, Number 1 · February 9, 1978
What Trotsky Thought
By Irving Howe
The Life and Death of Trotsky
by Robert Payne
McGraw-Hill, 498 pp., $14.95
The Social and Political Thought of Leon Trotsky
by Baruch Knei-Paz
Oxford University Press, 656 pp., $29.50
Only an old maestro of the potboiler like Robert Payne, author of more than one hundred books, would dare publish a biography of a figure like Trotsky without undertaking a serious discussion of his political ideas. This is Robert Payne's accomplishment, and while by no means unique, it is notable.
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