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12 - Modern History - Leon Trotsky: Personality Study: Search strategies and tools

Search strategies and tools


Boolean searching

and 

trotsky and background

trotsky and biography

trotsky and education

trotsky and role and 1917

trotsky and commissar

trotsky death lenin

trotsky historiography

 

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trotsky and (background or life or biography or education)

trotsky and capture and bridge

trotsky and (ideals or ideology or philosophy)

trotsky and (mrc or “military revolutionary committee”)

trotsky (assassinat* or death or kill*)

trotsky (critique or significan*)

trotsky (expulsion or expelled)

“zimmerwald conference” or “third zimmerwald conference” or “international socialist conference at zimmerwald”

 

 

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trotsky politic* role

trotsky terror*

trotsky (attack or critic* or writing or letter or correspond*) stalin*

trotsky socialis*

lenin (successor or follow*) 

  

 

“… ... …” 

 

trotsky and “political role”

trotsky and “1917 revolution”

trotsky and “military revolutionary committee”

trotsky and “commissar for war”

trotsky and “treaty of brest”

trotsky “propaganda train”

trotsky (“power struggle” or faction)

trotsky “red army”

Trotsky “fourth international”

trotsky “permanent revolution” concept

trotsky (expel* or expulsion) “communist party”

 

 

 

Databases

Apply these search strategies in the below online databases - these are key resources for your study