THE RUSSIAN FRONT

TRF readers looking for more Trotsky content may want to check out the most recent webcast of the Hoover Institution’s interview series “Uncommon Knowledge” where you’ll find the program’s host (and Hoover Fellow) Peter Robinson focusing in on the life and legacy of the Russian revolutionary. Robinson’s guests are the journalist, author, and self-proclaimed Trotskyist Christopher Hitchens and Robert Service — Professor of Russian History at St. Anthony’s College Oxford and author of the forthcoming study, Trotsky: A Biography.

Although specialists may find some of Robinson’s questions insufficiently “nuanced” for academic tastes (”Was Leon Trotsky a good guy, or a bad guy?”) and a good portion of the program is premised on a hypothetical (”What if Lenin had been succeeded not by Stalin, but by Trotsky?”) the responses from the guests are sufficiently informative (Service) and entertaining (Hitchens) to make the thirty-minute program well worth watching. For both video and a transcript of the interview, click HERE.

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