Papers by Joshua Rubenstein
Journal of Cold War Studies, 2010
The Russian Review, Oct 1, 1994
A clear-eyed exploration of the career of Leon Trotsky, the tragic hero who "dreamed of just... more A clear-eyed exploration of the career of Leon Trotsky, the tragic hero who "dreamed of justice and then wreaked havoc," by a leading expert on human rights and the former Soviet Union Born Lev Davidovich Bronstein in southern Ukraine, Trotsky was both a world-class intellectual and a man capable of the most narrow-minded ideological dogmatism. He was an effective military strategist and an adept diplomat, who staked the fate of the Bolshevik revolution on the meager foundation of a Europe-wide Communist upheaval. He was a master politician who played his cards badly in the momentous struggle for power against Stalin in the 1920s. And he was an assimilated, indifferent Jew who was among the first to foresee that Hitler's triumph would mean disaster for his fellow European Jews, and that Stalin would attempt to forge an alliance with Hitler if Soviet overtures to the Western democracies failed. Here, Trotsky emerges as a brilliant and brilliantly flawed man. Rubenstein offers us a Trotsky who is mentally acute and impatient with others, one of the finest students of contemporary politics who refused to engage in the nitty-gritty of party organization in the 1920s, when Stalin was maneuvering, inexorably, toward Trotsky's own political oblivion. As Joshua Rubenstein writes in his preface, "Leon Trotsky haunts our historical memory. A preeminent revolutionary figure and a masterful writer, Trotsky led an upheaval that helped to define the contours of twentieth-century politics." In this lucid and judicious evocation of Trotsky's life, Joshua Rubenstein gives us an interpretation for the twenty-first century.
Journal of Cold War Studies, 2012
Boston University Center for the Study of Conflict, Ideology, and Policy, 2001
Soviet Jews in World War II
Political Violence, 2008
The publication of The Great Terror by Robert Conquest was greeted with universal acclaim in the ... more The publication of The Great Terror by Robert Conquest was greeted with universal acclaim in the American and British press when it appeared in the fall of 1968. The timing of the book’s publication could not have been better. The Great Terror appeared just four years after the removal of Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev from power, in the immediate aftermath of the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. This was a time when liberal opinion was no longer vulnerable to credulous, pro-Soviet apologetics, and few, if any, were being offered.
Choice Reviews Online, 2006
... Page 18. Page 19. Chronology 1921 Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov born in Moscow on May 21, the f... more ... Page 18. Page 19. Chronology 1921 Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov born in Moscow on May 21, the first child of Dmitri Sakharov and Ekaterina Sofiano 1938 Enrolls in Physics Department of Moscow State University 1941 Hitler invades the Soviet Union on June 22. ...
The American Historical Review, 2013
The American Historical Review, 2010
Russian Review, 1985
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