What led Trotsky to become a revolutionary?
Sharp, sensitive naturel critical of father’s business
High school 1890s – read revolutionary literature
Claimed Jewish oppression was not a factor
Developed Marxist approach, joined revolutionary circles
Arrested & exiled to Siberia
Joshua Rubenstein presents the life and works of Leon Trotsky
Mr. Rubenstein was Northeast Regional Director, Amnesty International USA 1975 - 2012
and is an Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University
Mr. Rubenstein's works include:
Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary’s Life, Jewish Lives series at Yale University Press.
Soviet Dissidents, Their Struggle for Human Rights and Tangled Loyalties.
The Life and Times of Ilya Ehrenburg.
Co-editor of Stalin's Secret Pogrom: The Postwar Inquisition of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee.
Co-editor of The KGB File of Andrei Sakharov.
Mr. Rubenstein was awarded the National Jewish Book Award, East European Studies
