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28 Jul 2009
Speakers: Robert Service, Peter M Robinson, Christopher Hitchens 1949-2011
Leon Trotsky, one of the leading figures of the Russian October Revolution, remains a controversial figure. For many, Trotsky’s assassination in Mexico marked a tragedy in Soviet history, cutting off the possibility of a humane version of communism taking hold in Russia, with Trotsky himself arguing that he would have held back the tides of arbitrary rule and terror. But is that so? In answering this question and others about Trotsky’s ideas, political defeat, and exile, Christopher Hitchens and Robert Service speak to the very nature of communist ideology.
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Author; Fellow of the Hoover Institution
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