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Title: The Prophet Armed
Condition: New
Subtitle: Trotsky 1879-1921
Author: Isaac Deutscher
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1859844413
EAN: 9781859844410
ISBN: 9781859844410
Publisher: Verso Books
Genre: Law & Politics
Topic: Biography
Release Date: 17/01/2004
Description: 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.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 203mm
Item Length: 152mm
Item Width: 38mm
Item Weight: 649g
Release Year: 2004

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