How long does it take to read Trotsky?
A Biography
Trotsky by Robert Service takes about 11 hours 13 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 11 hours 13 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2009. 612 pages, about 168,300 words.
23 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 18 hours 42 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours 13 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 1 minute |
The page count is the median across 7 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Trotsky is perhaps the most intriguing and, given his prominence, the most understudied of the Soviet revolutionaries. Using new archival sources including family letters, party and military correspondence, confidential speeches, and medical records, Service offers new insights into Trotsky.
Subjects: Communists, Soviet union, biography, Revolutionaries, soviet union, Statesmen, soviet union, Statesmen, biography, Exiles
