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The Balkans and the Balkan War

The Balkans and the Balkan War

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Product Code:
158-01
ISBN
978-619-152-585-0
SKU
02.0082
Year
23-02-2015
Translation
From Russian: Vladimir Ignatovsky
Pages
480
Size
140/215 мм
Weight
0.58 kg
Cover Type
Hardcover
Genre
The Balkans & the Balkan countries, Bulgarian History, Military History, Historical Figures, Memoirs & Documents

Leon Trotsky

Leon Trotsky

Leon Trotsky (born Lev Davidovich Bronstein; 1879–1940) was a Russian revolutionary, theorist, and Soviet politician. Ideologically a Marxist and a Leninist, he later developed his own version of Marxism, Trotskyism. Initially supporting the Menshevik Internationalists faction within the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, he joined the Bolsheviks ("majority") just before the 1917 October Revo…

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The Balkan wars: 1912-13 was a series of articles published by Leon Trotsky in Russian newspaper “Kievskaja mysl” (Russian: Киевская мысль) during the Balkan Wars of 1912-1913. In USSR Trotsky's war correspondence was republished as the sixth volume of his collected works under the title “The Balkans and the Balkan War”. In 1993, in connection with the Yugoslav wars, it was reissued as an important source on the history of the Balkan Peninsula.

The book addresses the complex links between war and memory. It offers a detailed analysis of the correspondence, arguing for its present relevance in several aspects, beyond its polemical brilliance: firstly, its detailed information and personal evaluation of the socialist movement in the Balkans; secondly, its testimonies of wounded officers, soldiers, and prisoners of war, reproduced in extension, in combination with interviews with politicians, serve as a rarely preserved primary source.

On-the-spot analysis of national and social conflicts in the Balkans, written 80 years ago, sheds light on the conflicts shaking these countries today.

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