Stalin isaac deutscher
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Isaac Deutscher
Polish historian and Marxist (–)
Isaac Deutscher (Polish: Izaak Deutscher; 3 April – 19 August ) was a Polish Marxist writer, journalist and political activist who moved to the United Kingdom before 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 scholarly biographies of Trotsky and Stalin have received widespread acclaim,[1][2][3][4] with several reviewers ranking his three-volume Prophet trilogy among the greatest of political biographies.[5][6][7] However, some criticism has been directed at his overly sympathetic tone for the subject matter.[8][9] His three-volume biography of Trotsky was also highly influential among the BritishNew Left in the s and s.[10]
Early life and communist involvement in Poland
[edit]Deutscher was born in Chrzanów, a town in the Galicia region of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (now in southern Poland), into a family of religiously observant Jews. He studied with a Hasidicrebbe and was acclaimed as a prodigy in the study of the Torah and the Talmud.[11] He lived through three pogroms in that followed the collapse of the
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Stalin : a political biography / Isaac Deutscher
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- Harmondsworth, England : Penguin,
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- Political leaders of the twentieth century
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- Includes bibliographies and index.
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Isaac Deutscher
Writing a Account of Stalin
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