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        3. The prophet: the life of leon trotsky by isaac deutscher
        4. 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.

          5. James D Young 1964

          Deutscher’s Trotsky

          Source: Political Quarterly, Volume 35, no 2, April-June 1964. Scanned and prepared for the Marxist Internet Archive by Paul Flewers.

          Isaac Deutscher, The Prophet Outcast: Trotsky 1929-40 (Oxford University Press, pp 543
          The Essential Trotsky (Unwin Books), pp 251

          The Prophet Outcast is the third and final instalment of Isaac Deutscher’s monumental biography of Leon Trotsky.

          Isaac Deutscher has taken a whole decade to complete this trilogy, and the result is a major biography in the tradition of bourgeois scholarship. In the Marxist sense, however, he is a brilliant chronicler rather than a major theoretician.

          Notwithstanding his great literary gifts, wide erudition and considerable partisan political experience as a Trotskyite fellow-traveller, Isaac Deutscher unwittingly betrays his theoretical inadequacy by persistently excusing his hero’s false prophecies and faults as ‘the faults of someone who was ste