The Prophet Outcast: Trotsky: 1929-1940

Isaac Deutscher

ISBN 10: 0195001478 / ISBN 13: 9780195001471

Published by Oxford University Press, 1963

Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G0195001478I3N01

Synopsis:

xv, 543pp, 13 plates, Oxford University Press, London 1963. 1st edition. Bottom of front cover stained, otheriwise a very good copy in dust jacket.

Review: The most exciting reading of the year. Surely this must be counted among the greatest biographies in the English language. -- Graham Greene

The three volumes of Isaac Deutscher's life of Trotsky ... were for me the most exciting reading of the year. Surely this must be counted among the greatest biographies in the English language. --Graham Greene

Deutscher is an exceedingly vivid writer with a sense of style, and a warm and understanding sympathy for his hero: this makes him a first rate biographer.

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

"In the 1930s, Trotsky, with a handful of followers, attempted to block the path of Stalin's relentless hurricane of betrayal and murder. His epic defence of the soul of the Revolution against its bureaucratic executioners was a torchlight in the storm. In one of the very greatest modern biographies, Isaac Deutscher redeems the legacy of this astonishing revolutionary and humanist thinker."--Mike Davis

"The three volumes of Isaac Deutscher's life of Trotsky ... were for me the most exciting reading of the year. 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 than ever before ... .compulsory reading for anyone interested in the history of Soviet Russia."--A.J.P Taylor, "New Statesman"

"He has told the story more accurately and with fuller detail than ever before. His book is compulsory reading for anyone interested in the history of Soviet Russia and of international communism."--A. J. P. Taylor

"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

"Deutscher is an exceedingly vivid writer with a sense of style, and a warm and understanding sympathy for his hero: this makes him a first rate biographer."--"Times Literary Supplement"

He has told the story more accurately and with fuller detail than ever before. His book is compulsory reading for anyone interested in the history of Soviet Russia and of international communism. --A. J. P. Taylor

In the 1930s, Trotsky, with a handful of followers, attempted to block the path of Stalin s relentless hurricane of betrayal and murder. His epic defence of the soul of the Revolution against its bureaucratic executioners was a torchlight in the storm. In one of the very greatest modern biographies, Isaac Deutscher redeems the legacy of this astonishing revolutionary and humanist thinker. Mike Davis
The three volumes of Isaac Deutscher s life of Trotsky ... were for me the most exciting reading of the year. 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 than ever before ... .compulsory reading for anyone interested in the history of Soviet Russia. A.J.P Taylor, "New Statesman"
He has told the story more accurately and with fuller detail than ever before. His book is compulsory reading for anyone interested in the history of Soviet Russia and of international communism. A. J. P. Taylor
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
Deutscher is an exceedingly vivid writer with a sense of style, and a warm and understanding sympathy for his hero: this makes him a first rate biographer. "Times Literary Supplement""

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Prophet Outcast: Trotsky: 1929-1940
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Date: 1963
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket