Isaac Deutscher

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, 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.’

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.

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, 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 second volume of the trilogy, first published in 1959, 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. From the narrative of Trostsky’s uncompromising opposition to Stalin’s policies emerge character studies of the important Soviet leaders; a brilliant portrait of Trotsky the man of ideas, the Marxist philosopher and literary critic; and a new assessment of the causes of defeat which led to his expulsion from the party, his exile, and his banishment from Russia.

Exhaustive analysis of the life and career of the Soviet Union's most brutal dictator

Few 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.

Essays 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 calmness and clear-sightedness; as a historian he writes without anger but with compassion; as a non-Jewish Jew he writes without religious belief, but with a generous breadth of understanding. As a philosopher he writes first of some of the great Jews of Europe: Spinoza, Heine, Marx, Trotsky, Rosa 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; of the Zionist ideal, of the establishment of the state of Israel, of the war of June 1967, and of the perils ahead.

The George Macaulay Trevelyan Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge, January-March 1967. A brilliant assessment of half a century of Soviet history by one of the foremost analysts of world Communism.

Hardcover in very good condition, with clipped dust jacket in good condition. Jacket front is a little chipped and creased, jacket is scored and edges are creased and nicked. Board spine ends are slightly bumped, and page block is lightly tanned. Mark noted on page 23. Pages are otherwise clear, boards are clean and binding is sound. LW

Essays, Russian & Soviet Studies, Eastern European Studies

Collected essays by the Marxist scholar examine the destruction of the Polish Communist Party, trends in the U.S.S.R. and the nature of socialist man

278p., slightly rubbed dj, sligth edgewear on dj, spine sunned, else very good

يتكون الكتاب من قسمين، الأول عنونه حيرة عربى ويضم توثيقا لمقالات كتبها الحسينى فى أوقات مختلفة حول القضية الفلسطينية، ويقول المؤلف فى مقدمة الطبعة الثانية إن عام 2009 وافق مرور 112 عاما على المؤتمر الصهيونى الأول الذى أقر البرنامج الصهيونى، وشهد ذكرى 92 عاما على وعد بلفور الذى كان أول خطوة لتأكيد هذا البرنامج.ويؤرخ الحسينى فى هذا الجزء لتاريخ الصراع العربى الإسرائيلى، ويشير فى أولى صفحات الكتاب إلى ترجمته لكتاب البريطانى إيزاك دويتشر الذى كان عنوانه بالعربية "اليهودى اللا يهودى" وهو الذى يشغل الجزء الثانى من الكتاب وحمل عنوانا آخر هو" حيرة يهودى ".وترجع أسباب الحيرة عند الحسينى للاختلاف والارتباك الذى تعرض له فترة من حياته عندما انضم لصفوف حركة فتح الفلسطينية، واكتشف بعدها الآراء المختلفة التى ذهبت حول كيفية تحرير فلسطين، وكيفية طرد اليهود، فهناك من ذهب إلى أن الدول العربية يجب أن تفتح أبوابها لعودة اليهود الذين هاجروا منها، وهناك من رأى أن مصير اليهود الذين يعيشون على هذه الأرض ليست مشكلتنا، ونفس الحيرة وجدها عندما اختلف الكثيرون على كيفية تحرير فلسطين، فمنهم من اعتبر الكفاح المسلح هو الطريق الوحيد، ومنهم من رأى أن الكفاح المسلح من أجل التحرير هو الذى سيحقق وحدة عربية تخنق الدولة اليهودية، ثم تجهز عليها، ومنهم من رأى أن الفلسطينيين يجب أن يأخذوا قضيتهم بأنفسهم، ليحرروا أرضهم.واشترك الكاتب البريطانى إيزاك دويتشر مع الحسينى فى هذه الحيرة، فهو يهودى حيرته يهوديته، تربى تربية تكاد تكون يهودية خالصة، وكان يبذل جهدا فى كتاباته كى يبدى تماسكا روحيا، تختبئ خلفها حيرة لم يبرأ منها حتى نهاية حياته، وهو ما حمس الحسينى لترجمة الكتاب، واختار له عنوان" حيرة يهودى".فى حيرة يهودى تناول إيزاك دويتشر المولود عام 1907، والمتوفى عام 1967، تعريف اليهودى، فى فصل من الكتاب عنونه "من هو اليهودى" وتناول الثورة الروسية والمسألة اليهودية فى فصل آخر، وتأثير هذه الثورة على وضع اليهود الروس، كما تطرق دويتشر إلى مناخ إسرائيل الروحى، والذكرى العاشرة لقيامها، وحربها ضد العرب عام1967

Isaac Deutscher is widely recognized as one of the foremost political biographers of the twentieth century, and his full-scale studies of Trotsky and Stalin, translated into many world languages, have played a major role in elucidating the character and fate of the Russian Revolution.This collection of essays, hitherto unpublished or out of print, provides a clear idea of the range and force of Deutscher’s literary activity over a period of more than thirty years. It also demonstrates his essential consistency of from his sharp denunciation of the first Moscow Trial in 1936, through his resistance to the Cold War tides of the fifties, to his sober analysis of the Chinese Cultural Revolution in 1966. His fidelity to the Marxist method and firm grasp of socialist history allowed him to penetrate to the core of events without ever falling into the blind apologetics or feverish disavowals that blighted so many left-wing intellectuals of his generation.Deutscher’s own origins in the Polish communist movement are here reflected in his famous interview on the tragedy of the Polish CP, while his major essay on bureaucracy is one of the few sustained attempts to grapple with this key theoretical and practical problem of the socialist movement.This volume is designed both as a lasting collection of some of Deutscher’s best-known and most powerful texts, and as an introduction for readers approaching his work for the first time. A specially written preface by Perry Anderson assesses this selection in relation to Deutscher’s overall achievement, and Tamara Deutscher’s introduction passes on to the reader the often fascinating personal background to certain of the essays.

"When, just a few weeks after the dictator's death, Isaac Deutscher published his Russia After Stalin, it might at first have been thought that the biographer of the deceased statesman had been merely indulging in a journalistic exercise. It is not, indeed, rare, to find people taking advantage of newsworthy events to feed the public with more or less successful essays consisting of an ill-assorted diet of obituary-cum-prognostication. Deutscher's little book, however, which was written between March 1953 and April 20th of the same year, belongs to an entirely different category." From the introduction by Marcel Liebman.

An address presented by Deutscher at the 2nd Annual Socialist Scholars Conference, New York, 1966.

Photographs, excerpts from official records & eyewitness accounts document the terrible tole of Stalin's purges against his real & imagined enemies.Text originally written for the Home Service of the BBC.

Russia and The West circa 1959

195 páginas

Compuesto de dos partes este volumen ofrece los perspicaces puntos de vista de Deutscher sobre temas tan controvertidos como son las causas, el desarrollo, el sentido de la revolución china y su papel dentro del marco de fuerzas internacional.

სტალინის ეს ბიოგრაფია ჩვეულებრივი მკითხველისთვისაა განკუთვნილი, და არა ექსპერტებისთვის. შევეცადე, სტალინის პიროვნებისა და მისი კარიერის შესახებ ყველა ძირითადი ფაქტი რაც შეიძლება მარტივად გადმომეცა. როდესაც მუშაობის დაწყებას ვგეგმავდი, ამ ქვეყნის საზოგადოება და პრესა ჯერ კიდევ სტალინის პერიოდის ომების შთაბეჭდილების ქვეშ იმყოფებოდა, ხოლო როდესაც წიგნის ბოლო სტრიქონებს ვწერდი, ბერლინის თავზე მგზავრებით სავსე თვითმფრინავი დაფრინავდა და სტალინი უკვე ცივი ომის შემოქმედი იყო. პოლიტიკური კლიმატის მკვეთრმა ცვლილებამ ჩემი დამოკიდებულება მისდამი ვერ შეცვალა. მე არასოდეს ვყოფილვარ სტალინის კულტის მიმდევარი. ჩემს ნაშრომში მიზნად ვისახავდი ძველმოდური ობიექტურობის შენარჩუნებას. უნდა ითქვას, ამას ადვილად ვერ მივაღწიე. ძალიან იოლი იქნებოდა სტალინის დანაშაულებრივი ბიოგრაფიის დაწერა. მე ხომ სტალინიზმის მოწინააღმდეგე ჯერ კიდევ 30-იანი წლებიდან ვიყავი, ხმამაღლა ვაკრიტიკებდი იძულებით კოლექტივიზაციას და ვამბობდი, რომ მას ბოროტება მოაქვს. 1931 წლიდან მოყოლებული ასევე მკაცრად ვაკრიტიკებდი სტალინისტურ პოლიტიკას და დღის სინათლეზე გამომქონდა მასობრივი ტერორი, რეპრესიები და მოსკოვური სასამართლოები. მე ადრევე გავხდი ანტისტალინისტი და რომ მომენდომებინა დაახლოებით ორი ათეული წლის განმავლობაში სტალინისა და სტალინიზმის წინააღმდეგ ჩემ მიერ დაწერილი ნაშრომების შეკრება, ვერავინ დამდებდა ბრალს, რომ მძაფრ კრიტიკას გავურბოდი და სტალინის აპოლოგეტი ვარ.

s/t: Their Place in Soviet Labour Policy

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A principios de 1960, Isaac Deutscher pronunció tres conferencias sobre el tema de la burocracia en un seminario para licenciados en la London School of Economics. El texto que sigue es una versión abreviada de sus conferencias, editada por Tamara Deutscher.