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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.
Author: Gregor Benton
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2015-09-01
Total Pages: 1287
ISBN-13: 9004282270
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProphets Unarmed is an authoritative sourcebook on the Chinese Communist Party's main early opposition, the Chinese Trotskyists, who emerged from the Chinese Communist Party, in China and Moscow, in reaction to its 1927 defeat. In spite of being Trotskyism’s main section outside Russia, they were crushed by Stalin in Moscow and by Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong in China, thus becoming China’s most persecuted party. Their strategy in the Japan war, when they failed to take up arms, was short-sighted and doctrinaire, and they had scant impact on the revolution. Even so, their association with Chen Duxiu and Wang Shiwei, their attachment to democracy, and their critique of Mao’s bureaucratic socialism brought them a scintilla of recognition after Mao’s death. Their standpoints and proposals and their association with the democratic movement are not without relevance to China's present crisis of morals and authority.
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.
Author: Isaac Deutscher
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: 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.
Author: Rachel Erlanger
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 368
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Isaac Deutscher
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2017-03-28
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 1786630842
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEssays on Judaism in the modern world, from philosophy and history to art and politics In these essays Deutscher speaks of the emotional heritage of the European Jew with a calm clear-sightedness. As a historian he writes without religious belief, but with a generous breadth of understanding; as a philosopher he writes of some of the great Jews of Europe: Spinoza, Heine, Marx, Trotsky, Luxemburg, and Freud. He explores the Jewish imagination through the painter Chagall. He writes of the Jews under Stalin and of the “remnants of a race“ after Hitler, as well as of the Zionist ideal, of the establishment of the state of Israel, of the Six-Day War, and of the perils ahead.
Author: Isaac Deutscher
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2009-07
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781844673933
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVolumes 1, 2 and 3 available at a special discounted price.
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.
Author: Jean-Christophe Attias
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2020-04-14
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1788736427
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat if there was another Moses, very different from the one we know? According to tradition, Moses wrote the first five books of the Bible. He is depicted there in a surprising way: with and against God; with and against his people; bringer of the Tablets of the Law, which he breaks; a stuttering prophet, guide to a Promised Land entry to which remains forbidden to him, and dead in an unknown tomb... Highly confusing for those who imagine a Moses carved out of a single block. By way a series of possible portraits - including one of a female Moses - Jean-Christophe Attias follows the metamorphoses of the Hebrew liberator through ages and cultures. Drawing on rabbinical sources as well as the Bible itself, he examines the words of the texts and especially their silences. He discovers here a fragile prophet, teacher of a Judaism of the spirit, of wandering, and of incompleteness. Receive and transmit. Listen, even when the message is confusing. Insistently question, especially when there is no answer. And always, remain free. This seems to be the Judaism of Moses. A Judaism that speaks to believers and others - to Jews, of course, but also far beyond them, inviting its hearers to have done with tribal pride, the violence of weapons, and the tyranny of a special place.
