Isaac Deutscher

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Isaac Deutscher


Born
in Chrzanów, Galicia, Austro-Hungarian Empire
April 03, 1907

Died
August 19, 1967

Genre

Influences


Isaac Deutscher was a Polish-born Jewish Marxist writer, journalist and political activist who moved to the United Kingdom at the outbreak of World War II. He is best known as a biographer of Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin and as a commentator on Soviet affairs. His three-volume biography of Trotsky, in particular, was highly influential among the British New Left.

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The Prophet Armed: Trotsky,...

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The Prophet Unarmed: Trotsk...

4.42 avg rating — 557 ratings — published 1959 — 52 editions
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The Prophet Outcast: Trotsk...

4.36 avg rating — 500 ratings — published 1963 — 42 editions
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The Prophet: The Life of Le...

4.52 avg rating — 177 ratings — published 1965
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The Non-Jewish Jew and Othe...

3.99 avg rating — 152 ratings — published 1978 — 12 editions
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The Unfinished Revolution: ...

3.47 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 1967 — 20 editions
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Lenin's childhood

3.97 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1970 — 5 editions
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Heretics and Renegades and ...

3.33 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1955 — 8 editions
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Marxism in Our Time

3.50 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1971 — 6 editions
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Ironies of History: Essays ...

3.83 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1966 — 10 editions
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“I do not think that a man's rise to power is necessarily the climax of his life or that his loss of office should be equated with his fall.”
Isaac Deutscher, The Prophet Armed: Trotsky, 1879-1921

“Wherever he went he left footprints so firm that nobody could later efface or blur them, not even he himself, when on rare occasions he was tempted to do so.”
Isaac Deutscher, The Prophet Armed: Trotsky, 1879-1921

“But his compensation was the unique magnitude of his horizon. Compared with this vision, which Trotsky drew in his cell in the fortress, the political predictions made by his most illustrious and wisest contemporaries, including Lenin and Plekhanov, were timid or muddle-headed.”
Isaac Deutscher, The Prophet: The Life of Leon Trotsky

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