The Prophet Outcast--Trotsky, 1929-1940
Author: Isaac Deutscher
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 0
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The Prophet Unarmed
Author: Isaac Deutscher
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 470
ISBN-13: 9781859844465
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis second volume of the trilogy is a self-contained account of the great struggle between Stalin and Trotsky that followed the end of the civil war in Russia in 1921 and the death of Lenin.
The Prophet Armed
Author: Isaac Deutscher
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 520
ISBN-13: 9781859844410
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis first volume of the trilogy traces Trotsky's political development.
The Prophet Outcast
Author: Isaac Deutscher
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2004-01-17
Total Pages: 513
ISBN-13: 1859844510
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFew political figures of the twentieth century have aroused as much controversy as the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky. Trotsky’s extraordinary life and extensive writings have left an indelible mark on revolutionary conscience, yet there was a danger that his name would disappear from history. Originally published in 1954, Deutscher’s magisterial three-volume biography was the first major publication to counter the powerful Stalinist propaganda machine. In this definitive biography Trotsky emerges in his real stature, as the most heroic, and ultimately tragic, character of the Russian Revolution. This third volume of the trilogy, first published in 1963, is a self-contained narrative of Trotsky’s years in exile and of his murder in Mexico in 1940. Deutscher’s masterful account of the period, and of the ideological controversies ranging throughout it, forms a background against which, as he says, ‘the protagonist’s character reveals itself, while he is moving towards catastrophe.’
The Prophet
Author: Isaac Deutscher
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2015-01-06
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 1781685606
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFew political figures of the twentieth century have aroused such intensities of fierce admiration and reactionary fear as Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky. His extraordinary life and extensive writings have left an indelible mark on the revolutionary consciousness. Yet there was once a danger that his life and influence would be relegated to the footnotes of history. Published over the course of ten years, beginning in 1954, Deutscher’s magisterial three-volume biography turned back the tide of Stalin’s propaganda, and has since been praised by everyone from Tony Blair to Graham Greene. In this definitive work, now reissued in a single volume, Trotsky’s true stature emerges as the most heroic, and ultimately tragic, character of the Russian Revolution.
Trotsky
Author: Robert Service
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 656
ISBN-13: 9780674036154
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis illuminating portrait of Leon Trotsky sets the record straight on the common misconceptions about the man and his legacy. Completing his masterful trilogy on the founding figures of the Soviet Union, Service delivers an authoritative biography.
Isaac and Isaiah
Author: David Caute
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2013-08-06
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0300195346
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRancorous and highly public disagreements between Isaiah Berlin and Isaac Deutscher escalated to the point of cruel betrayal in the mid-1960s, yet surprisingly the details of the episode have escaped historians’ scrutiny. In this gripping account of the ideological clash between two of the most influential scholars of Cold War politics, David Caute uncovers a hidden story of passionate beliefs, unresolved antagonism, and the high cost of reprisal to both victim and perpetrator. Though Deutscher (1907–1967) and Berlin (1909–1997) had much in common—each arrived in England in flight from totalitarian violence, quickly mastered English, and found entry into the Anglo-American intellectual world of the 1950s—Berlin became one of the presiding voices of Anglo-American liberalism, while Deutscher remained faithful to his Leninist heritage, resolutely defending Soviet conduct despite his rejection of Stalin’s tyranny. Caute combines vivid biographical detail with an acute analysis of the issues that divided these two icons of Cold War politics, and brings to light for the first time the full severity of Berlin’s action against Deutscher.
The Prophet
Author: Isaac Deutscher
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2009-07
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781844673933
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The Prophet Outcast
Author: Isaac Deutscher
Publisher:
Published: 1963
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKStalin's Nemesis
Author: Bertrand M. Patenaude
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 366
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Leon Trotsky was the charismatic intellectual of the Russian Revolution, a brilliant writer and orator who was also an authoritarian organizer. He might have succeeded Lenin and become the ruler of the Soviet Union. But by the time the Second World War broke out he was in exile, living in Mexico in a villa borrowed from the great artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, guarded only by several naive young Americans in awe of the great theoretician. The household was awash with emotional turmoil - tensions grew between Trotsky and Rivera, as questions arose over his relations with Frida Kahlo. His wife was restless and jealous. Outside of the villa, Mexican communists tried to storm the house and kill the man they regarded as a traitor, the Trotskys' sons were being persecuted and killed in Europe, and in Moscow, Stalin personally ordered his secret police to kill his fiercest left-wing critic - at any cost. By the summer of 1940, they had found a man who could penetrate the tight security around the house in far-away Mexico. This title offers a brilliant reconstruction of one of the most infamous state crimes, and a panoramic view of Trotsky's incredible life. ." from Book jacket (abridged).
