Robert Service on Leon Trotsky

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🗓️ 26 July 2010

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Robert Service of Stanford University's Hoover Institution and the University of Oxford talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the life and death of Leon Trotsky. Based on Service's biography of Trotsky, the conversation covers Trotsky's influence on the Russian Revolution, his influence on policy alongside Lenin, his expulsion from Soviet Union in 1928 and his murder in 1940 by Stalin's order.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:12.5	I'm your host Russ Roberts of George Mason University and Stanford University's Hoover
0:17.3	Institution.
0:18.7	Our website is econtalk.org where you can subscribe, find other episodes, comment on this podcast,
0:25.8	and find links to other information related to today's conversation.
0:29.9	Our email address is mailadicontalk.org.
0:33.6	We'd love to hear from you.
0:35.6	Today is June 22, 2010, and my guest is Robert Service.
0:43.7	Senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a fellow St. Anthony's College, Oxford.
0:48.2	He is the author of many books, including biographies of Stalin, Lenin, and Trotsky.
0:52.6	Bob, welcome to Econ Talk.
0:53.6	Nice to be with you.
0:55.6	Our subject today is Trotsky, an elusive figure for many of us in the West.
0:59.5	Many of our listeners probably know he was involved in the Russian Revolution of October
1:02.8	1917, that he eventually broke with Stalin and was exiled and later murdered on Stalin's
1:07.2	orders.
1:08.2	But that was about it for me until I read your book, which is a vivid portrait of the
1:11.8	man and the events that he was so influential in being part of.
1:16.8	Tell us about him.
1:18.1	What kind of a man was he, and what was his impact?
1:21.1	Well, Trotsky, I think, by any standards, was a really remarkable man.
1:25.6	He was a committed revolutionary from his late teens onwards.
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