The Prophet: The Life of Leon Trotsky
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| Rating | : | 4.97 (743 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1781685606 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 1648 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-11-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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Isaac Deutscher was born in 1907 near Krakow and joined the Polish Communist Party, from which he was expelled in 1932. His other books include Stalin and The Unfinished Revolution.. He then moved to London where he died in 1967
A Long Haul but worth it Rusty G SATX Wow! I mean, Wow! And I'm a convinced Free Market Capitalist. First, I would like to commend the author. The writing, the analysis, the insights, the research, the scholarship top anything that I've read in 54 years of reading, considering that the first six years of my life I was of course illiterate. I came to this trilogy late because I waited for it to come out on kindle. Those of you with asthma know that it takes only a few weeks for any book to get moldy and dustyt. The estimate for reading time is forty hours. "Three Volumes and the Truth" according to Jeffrey Rubard. For those not in the know, the Isaac Deutscher Prize is awarded to the best Marxist book in the English language each year. The reason the award bears that name is this biography of Leon Trotsky, one of the best Marxist books written in the English language any year. Deutscher was a Polish Jew who as a young man threw his lot in with communism and then with Trotsky's criticism of the movement's direction, losing his membership card without losing his life (a rarity at the time) and then escaping the Nazis through a f. Marc Lichtman said THE DEFINITIVE BIOGRAPHY OF TROTSKY BUT. I’m very glad to see the three volumes of this biography available in a single book.Isaac Deutscher was a member of the Polish Left Opposition (internationally headed by Trotsky). Trotsky decided after the defeat of the working class in Germany, and by the failure of the fascist victory to cause much of a stir in what still claimed to be the Communist (Third) International that a new International had to be built, and started in that task, Deutscher disagreed, and held the position that the Stalinist parties wo
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. Few political figures of the twentieth century have aroused such intensities of fierce admiration and reactionary fear as Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky. Yet there was once a danger that his life and influence would be relegated to the footnotes of history. 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.. His extraordinary life and extensive writings have left an indelible mark on the revolutionary consciousness
His epic defence of the soul of the Revolution against its bureaucratic executioners was a torchlight in the storm. His book is compulsory reading for anyone interested in the history of Soviet Russia and of international communism.” —A.J.P. “In the 1930s, Trotsky, with a handful of followers, attempted to block the path of Stalin’s relentless hurricane of betrayal and murder. Taylor, New Statesman“This is the critical voice the velvet revolution faded out. The republication of Deutscher’s classic trilogy is good news for a new generation who want to know what went wrong with communist-style socialism.” —Sheila Rowbotham. Surely this must be counted among the greatest biographies in the English language.” —Graham Greene“He has told the story more accurately and with fuller detail t