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Trotsky

Léon Trotsky · Russian Marxist revolutionary (1879–1940) · 1879–1940

Appears in 4 videos · 5 passages, 1 of them in depth.

Summary

Dominique Pagani mentions Trotsky mainly through his relationship with Lenin and the episode of the Brest-Litovsk peace. He recalls that Trotsky opposed this peace, that Lenin persuaded him to accept it and had him sign the treaty1. He also repeats Lenin's judgement that Trotsky was too "administrative"2. In 2022, in a session devoted to the war in Ukraine, he comes back to this point: according to Lenin, Trotsky was on a mistaken path, but Lenin never asked for him to be shot3. He also links Trotsky to the question of intellectual inheritance: Trotsky called himself a Leninist, and Dominique Pagani draws from this the idea that everyone takes hold of a body of thought as they see fit4. Finally, he mentions in passing a photograph of Trotsky in Mexico with Frida Kahlo5. The passages are brief and do not deal with Trotsky's writings.

  1. 1Avec Clouscard2 Aug 2016 · 52:50
  2. 2Au bistrot avec Pagani : partie 219 Jun 2016 · 16:27
  3. 3#10 UKRAINE : Du problème des "Bords" au déchaînement de la guerre24 Feb 2022 · 1:56:05
  4. 4Avec Clouscard2 Aug 2016 · 51:03
  5. 5Clouscard et le problème de Socrate14 Oct 2022 · 7:40

Summary produced automatically from 5 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.

Portrait: TrotskyWho is this?

Lev Davidovich Trotsky (né Bronstein; 7 November [O.S. 26 October] 1879 – 21 August 1940), better known as Leon Trotsky, was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician, and political theorist. He was a key figure in the 1905 Revolution, the October Revolution of 1917, the Russian Civil War, and the establishment of the Soviet Union, from which he was exiled in 1929 before his assassination in 1940. Trotsky and Vladimir Lenin were widely considered the two most prominent figures in the Soviet state from 1917 until Lenin's death in 1924. […]

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Series · 2 Aug 2016With Clouscard
  1. 51:03Proclaimed himself a Leninist: everyone appropriates a thought as they see fit.
  2. 52:50Opposed to the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, he lets himself be persuaded by Lenin, who tasks him with signing the treaty.

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