A Dis-Service to Scholarship

For those that have missed it, Scott McLemee and Richard Seymour have recently drawn the attention of the blogosphere (if that is still what people are calling it) to Trotsky scholar Bertrand M. Patenaude's recent demolition of Trotsky: A Life by Robert Service. It therefore seems timely to highlight the LSHG's own demolition of Service's work by Ian Birchall over a year ago - aptly entitled Out of Service.