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Isaac Deutscher – Trotsky – Biography in 3 volumes - Verso, London, 2003, (2ª reimpressão desta edição para os volumes 1 e 2; 1ª edição desta edição para o 3º volume; originais publicados pela Oxford University Press em, respectivamente: 1954, 59 e 63.), 497 + 444 + 484 páginas.

Em língua Inglesa

Paperback

Livros em muito bom estado, como novos.

Miolo impecável, sem notas, sublinhados ou assinaturas de posse.

Com uma vintena de ilustracções mas apenas no 3º volume.

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Isaac Deutscher (Polish: Izaak Deutscher; 3 April 1907 – 19 August 1967) was a Polish Marxist writer, journalist and political activist who moved to the United Kingdom before 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 was highly influential among the British New Left in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Do site da editora:

""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

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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.

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1º volume: The Prophet Armed: Trotsky: 1879 to 1921

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.

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2º volume: The Prophet Unarmed: Trotsky, 1921 to 29

This second volume of the trilogy, first published in 1959, is a self-contained account of the great struggle between Stalin and Trotsky that followed the end of the civil war in Russia in 1921 and the death of Lenin. From the narrative of Trostsky’s uncompromising opposition to Stalin’s policies emerge character studies of the important Soviet leaders; a brilliant portrait of Trotsky the man of ideas, the Marxist philosopher and literary critic; and a new assessment of the causes of defeat which led to his expulsion from the party, his exile, and his banishment from Russia.

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3º volume: The Prophet Outcast: Trotsky 1929 to 40

This third volume of the trilogy, first published in 1963, is a self-contained narrative of Trotsky’s years in exile and of his murder in Mexico in 1940. Deutscher’s masterful account of the period, and of the ideological controversies ranging throughout it, forms a background against which, as he says, ‘the protagonist’s character reveals itself, while he is moving towards catastrophe.’