The Prophet Armed: Trotsky: 1879-1921 (Oxford Paperbacks)
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| Rating | : | 4.86 (725 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0192810642 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 552 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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Kobita said Five Stars. Is good for decadent, western style history book published by Capitalists.. C. E. R. Mendonça said In view of a forthcoming edition.. Firstly, it's necessary to keep in mind that Deustscher was not trying to write a biography of Trotsky- if by that is meant an account of his life for its own sake- nor was he trying to write a history of the Russian Revolution and its leaders as a self-contained account. Deutscher's goals where twofold: to vindicate Trotsky's ear. Reading the pre-Soviet era in the post-Soviet age It is indeed odd to read the early life of Leon Trotsky up to 1920 now, fifteen years after the collapse of the Soviet Union he saved from civil war 88 years ago. The reissue of this classic work, written right after WWII to vindicate the man who had done the most to give birth to the Soviet experiment and had been written out of
Few 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; and yet there was at one time a danger that his name would disappear altogether from history. Isaac Deutscher’s magisterial three-volume biography was the first major publication to counter the powerful Stalinist propaganda machine, and in this definitive work Trotsky emerges in his real stature, as the most heroic, and ultimately tragic, character of the Russian revolution.This first volume of the trilogy, originally published in 1954, traces Trotsky’s political development: his early activities, the formation and crystallization of his distinctive and motivating idea—the permanent revolution— his long feud and final reconciliation with Lenin and Bolshevism, and his role in the October insurrection of 1917. The volume ends in the year 1921, when Trotsky, then at the climax of his power, unwittingly sowed the seeds of his own defeat.
His other books include Stalin and The Unfinished Revolution. Isaac Deutscher was born in 1907 near Krakow and joined the Polish Communist Party, from which he was expelled in 1932. He then moved to London where he died in 1967.
Praise for the Trotsky trilogy:"Deutscher's trilogy transcends biography and history to stand out as one of the major political works of the postwar period."--The Nation"Deutscher's triple-decker biography of Trotsky is one of the perennial biographies, sympathetic and scrupulouscontinuously illuminating on history and politics."--The Hudson Review