The Prophet Armed/The Prophet Unarmed/The Prophet Outcast

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'Deutscher's life of Trotsky . . . will rank among the great political biographies of our time." The Guardian
Hardly any political figure in this century has aroused so much passionate and confused controversy as Leon Trotsky. The purpose of Isaac Deutscher's masterful three-volume life is to restore the historical balance. From these pages Trotsky emerges in his real stature, in his strength and with all his weaknesses, as the most heroic, and most tragic, character of the Russian revolution.
This first volume of the trilogy. The Prophet Armed, published originally in 1954, traces Trotsky's 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 with 1921, when Trotsky, then at the climax of power, unwittingly sowed the seeds of his downfall.
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'Deutscher's life of Trotsky . . . will rank among the great political biographies of our time." The Guardian
Hardly any political figure in this century has aroused so much passionate and confused controversy as Leon Trotsky. The purpose of Isaac Deutscher's masterful three-volume life is to restore the historical balance. From these pages Trotsky emerges in his real stature, in his strength and with all his weaknesses, as the most heroic, and most tragic, character of the Russian revolution.
This first volume of the trilogy. The Prophet Armed, published originally in 1954, traces Trotsky's 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 with 1921, when Trotsky, then at the climax of power, unwittingly sowed the seeds of his downfall.
'Patient and scholarly in its manipulation of a mass of unfamiliar material, brilliantly searching in political analysis, eloquent in psychological insight, The Prophet Armed is obligatory reading for the student of Soviet Russia.' The Times
ISAAC DEUTSCHER, who died in 1967, was the author of Sta/in: A Political Biography. The Unfinished Revolution: Russia 1917-1967 (OPB 168), and other books. Also available in Oxford Paperbacks are his:
The Prophet Unarmed: Trotsky 1921-1929
(OPB 228) The Prophet Outcast: Trotsky 1929-1940
(OPB 229)
Cover photograph: Trotsky in Moscow, as Commissar of War. Radio Times Hulton Picture Library.
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'Mr. Deutscher . . . does full justice to his hero. He tells the story magnificently.'
Leonard Schapiro, The Listener
The Prophet Outcast, first published in 1963, concludes Isaac Deutscher's brilliant three-volume life of Trotsky, 'one of the major political biographies of the century' [Daily Telegraph). For this volume, a self-contained narrative of Trotsky's years in exile and of his murder In Mexico in 1940, Mr. Deutscher was given access to the 'Closed Section' of the Trotsky archives at Harvard, and his use of Trotsky's intimate correspondence with his wife and children and of other private material sheds much light on the tragic dénouement. The biographer's masterful account of the political and social events of the period, and of the ideological controversies, forms a background against which, as he says, 'the protagonist's character reveals itself, while he is moving towards catastrophe'.
'The book, while packed with important historical material, . . . can be read, for its literary merits, by anyone who does not flinch at tragedy. It should be read by all those interested not only in the history of communism but in its prospects as well.'
The Economist
ISAAC DEUTSCHER, who died in 1967, was the author of Stalin: A Political Biography, The Unfinished Revolution: Russia 1917-1967 (OPB 168), and other books. Also available in Oxford Paperbacks are his :
The Prophet Armed: Trotsky 1879-1921
(OPB 227) The Prophet Unarmed: Trotsky 1921-1929 (OPB 228)
Cover photograph: Trotsky in Mexico, 1940
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