
1967
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3.47
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124
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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.
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Isaac Deutscher
Author · 11 books
Isaac Deutscher was a Polish-born Jewish Marxist writer, journalist and political activist who moved to the United Kingdom at 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 three-volume biography of Trotsky, in particular, was highly influential among the British New Left.