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Letters
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HYPERCRITIC
OPERA NEWS is to be faulted for not sending a critic more sympathetic to a performance of Schoenberg's Gurrelieder than Alan Wagner [August 2001]. Wagner glibly finds Schoenberg "wallowing in post-Wagnerianism," while dismissing the work itself as "dinosaur-like" and "fustian." Wagner oddly dismisses Jens Peter Jacobsen's sensitive Schopenhauerian text about death and renewal as "mystical Poe-- like verses." Most bizarrely, Wagner accuses Gurrelieder of melodic deficiency, which suggests to me that he must have been dozing through any number of gorgeous moments, such as ...
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Trotsky redux. (Leon Trotsky)
Magazine article from: The New Leader
; TROTSKY REDUX LEV DAVIDOVICH BRONSTEIN, known to the world as Leon Trotsky, was assassinated 50 years ago--on...joined in the Aberdeen discussion of "Leon Trotsky After Fifty Years." It seems clear...
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Leon Trotsky and World War I: August 1914-February 1917.(Review) (book review)
Magazine article from: History: Review of New Books
; Thatcher, Ian D. Leon Trotsky and World War I: August 1914...University of Leicester, analyzes Leon Trotsky's wartime journalism in this...agree with his conclusion. Thus, Leon Trotsky and World War I is for informed...
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Leon Trotsky and 1905: Ian Thatcher refuses to take Trotsky at his own valuation.(The Unpredictable Past)
Magazine article from: History Review
; ...marked an important turning-point in Leon Trotsky's life. It was precisely in 1905 that, as Trotsky himself stated, he first advanced the...not enough, 1905 was a notable event in Trotsky's life for other reasons. It offered...
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Icepick used to kill Leon Trotsky resurfaces after six decades in Mexico
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...used to kill Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky, has resurfaced after being lost...who is shopping it around, and Trotsky's descendants, who want it donated...certainly doesn't belong to Mr. Leon Trotsky." _____ Trotsky Museum in...
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Icepick used to kill Leon Trotsky allegedly resurfaces after six decades in Mexico
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...used to kill Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky, has allegedly resurfaced after...who is shopping it around, and Trotsky's descendants, who want it donated...worth. Just a few blocks away, Trotsky's grandson, who keeps the revolutionary...
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COMMENT: Would a Home Secretary today refuse sanctuary to Leon Trotsky?
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...behalf of another politician with blood on his hands, Leon Trotsky. Trotsky's titanic struggle with Stalin following the death...should recant publicly at the next Party Conference. Trotsky told Stalin: "The First Secretary is applying for...
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The Secret Life of Leon Trotsky.(baseball career)
Magazine article from: Nine
; ...hidden life as improbable as that of Leon Trotsky. For all we have come to know...at the sport was none other than Leon Trotsky, who first starred on his school...soul had better learn lapta." Leon Trotsky was born as Lev (Leib) Davidovich...
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An essential read for those tackling the compelling life and times of Leon Trotsky
Newspaper article from: The Irish Times
; ...Nemesis: The Exile and Murder of Leon Trotskyby Bertrand M Patenaude Faber...people think of in connection with Leon Trotsky is not his theory of permanent revolution...Joseph Stalin. The book describes Trotsky's last years in Mexican exile from...
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Stalin's Nemesis: The Exile and Murder of Leon Trotsky.(Book review)
Magazine article from: History Today
; ...Nemesis The Exile and Murder of Leon Trotsky Bertrand M. Patenaude Faber &...Stalin, rather than the charismatic Trotsky, had inherited the mantle and power...of Marxist theory and polemics, Trotsky was a babe in arms compared with...
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Radio series on last days of Leon Trotsky airs in Mexico.
News Wire article from: EFE World News Service
; ...revolutionary and former Soviet government official Leon Trotsky, murdered in this capital in 1940, began...of the 22-part series "Asi asesinaron a Trotsky" (This is how they murdered Trotsky) coincided with the 65th anniversary of a...
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