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The Prophet Armed: Trotsky 1879-1921

door Isaac Deutscher

Reeksen: Trotsky Trilogy (1)

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Hardly any political figure in the 20th century aroused so much passionate and confused controversy as Leon Trotsky. There was a danger that his name might have disappeared from history. Isaac Deutscher's three volume life of Trotsky was originally published in 1954, and was the first book to counter the powerful Stalinist propaganda machine that had sort to expunge Trotsky's name from the annals of the revolution, or worse, to leave it there as a synonym for an arch-traitor.… (meer)
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Wow! This is some biography. The whole entity, over three volumes, exceeds 1500 pages - I'll get there!

Part one, takes us through the scant details of Trotsky's birth and early years, to the revolution, his transformation from semi-pacifist to the People's Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs and his post war flirtation with control of the workers,

Isaac Deutscher is an ideal scribe for this work: his knowledge of soviet politics, at the time, must be unparalleled and he is scrupulously fair. He praises Trotsky's bravery and foresightedness, when he is in advance of the thinking of the soviet, but also chastises his willingness to accept the rejection of his views and his unstinting work and vocal support for solutions with which he does not agree.

The picture that arises from this book is of a great man with flaws... and haven't we all got those? Russia was not ready for socialism, it needed to go through a capitalist phase. I can well see why Trotsky and Lenin would not wish to hear that view and how easy it must have been to believe that communism was coming to the world. It is just a pity that the first iteration of this form of government should have been such a disastrous failure. ( )
  the.ken.petersen | Jun 26, 2022 |
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  Murtra | Apr 14, 2021 |
Very solid biography--more detailed than is perhaps necessary at times, but it's so well organized that you can skim over some of the more turgid debates, knowing that you'll be able to find that debate should you ever need to, which, I hope, you won't. It's ultra-intellectual, in the sense that Trotsky's wife appears in about two sentences, and otherwise we're just talking about the minute discussions that, in some sense, determined the disastrous course of the Russian transition from shit (Tsarism) to shit ('communism').

It's also remarkably balanced. I was expecting Trotsky to come off much better than he did, frankly. Deutscher gives us a man who came up with all sorts of horrible ideas before Lenin did, but had the good fortune to lose the debate when his ideas were particularly noxious, so Lenin could take the short term glory and long term hatred, while Trotsky got all that love as the anti-Stalin... despite being totally proto-Stalin, but with a much, much (much) better personality and brain and luck. Weird stuff. ( )
  stillatim | Oct 23, 2020 |
León Trotsky, uno de los más importantes revolucionarios, en el pensamiento y la acción, del siglo XX, ha sido estigmatizado tanto por algunos de sus antiguos camaradas como por sus enemigos. En este volumen Deutscher acomete con éxito la tarea de restaurar el equilibrio histórico. Traza la evolución de la primera parte de la vida de Trotsky: sus actividades, la formación y cristalización de su idea distintiva y fundamental. ( )
  BibliotecaUNED | Oct 18, 2017 |
Uma fonte excelente sobre Trótski e a União Soviética de sua época. Fiquei com vontade de ler os escritos de Trótski e de outros revolucionários, principalmente Rosa Luxemburg.

Uma biografia tão completa que já foi chamada de a mais completa biografia escrita em língua inglesa. Publicada pela Civilização Brasileira em plena ditadura militar, mas não teve o tratamento que merece. Até a edição mais recente sofre pela falta da revisão. Eu cansei de contar as vírgulas que separavam sujeito do verbo ou as frases com erros de concordância verbal. ( )
  JuliaBoechat | Mar 30, 2013 |
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Hardly any political figure in the 20th century aroused so much passionate and confused controversy as Leon Trotsky. There was a danger that his name might have disappeared from history. Isaac Deutscher's three volume life of Trotsky was originally published in 1954, and was the first book to counter the powerful Stalinist propaganda machine that had sort to expunge Trotsky's name from the annals of the revolution, or worse, to leave it there as a synonym for an arch-traitor.

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