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The Lubitz TrotskyanaNet Isaac Deutscher Bio-Bibliographical Miscellany

Contents:
# Basic biographical data
# Biographical sketch
# Some assessments and appraisals
# Selective bibliography
# Notes on archives

Basic biographical data

Name: Isaac Deutscher


Other names (bynames, pseud. etc.): Josef Bren ; (Major) Adam Grabiec ; Jan
Grzela ; A. Krakowski ; D. Martens ; Ignacy
Niemczycki ; Peregrine ; 'The Editors' ;
'A special correspondent'
Date and place of birth: April 3, 1907, Chrzanów (Austria-Hungary)
Date and place of death: August 19, 1967, Rome (Italy)
Nationality: Austrian, Polish, British
Occupations, careers, etc.: Journalist, writer, editor, lecturer, historian,
political activist
Time of activity in Trotskyist movement: 1932 - 1939

Biographical sketch

General assessment and summary


Isaac Deutscher was an outstanding Marxist historian, essayist, journalist, self-educated intellectual and
distinguished scholar, a life-long internationalist, and perhaps quite a typical 'non-Jewish Jew' .1 Last
not least his tremendous pioneering work – the three-volume biography of Leon Trotsky – , his countless
publications, radio contributions and public speeches ensured, that the heritage of revolutionary Marx-

1
This term "denotes a type of Jew who adopts a universal outlook in response to the condition of Jewish marginality, and feels
compelled to discard Jewish identity in order to achieve revolutionary goals. Isaac Deutscher originated the term and epitomizes the archetype."
[Muraskin, Bennett: Isaac Deutscher (1907-1967), in: Outlook / Canadian Jewish Outlook Society, 2001 (Jan./Febr.)

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ism and the reputation of Trotsky did not vanish into oblivion but was snatched from being besmirched;
hence, it was Isaac Deutscher who threw a bridge between non-Stalinist pre-War Marxism and the New
Left arising in the early Sixties. However, Deutscher mostly fell between two stools: for the Moscow-
oriented communists, he was a dangerous and unpleasant renegade whereas for many conservatives and
liberals, he was a crypto-communist or at least a tool of the Kremlin; and for a quite considerable
number of 'orthodox' Trotskyists, representing different factions and tendencies within the international
Trotskyist community, he became a target of some vitriolic and one-sided criticism, culminating in the
verdict that he was a Stalinist or at least a lakey of Stalinism. Perhaps it is correct to characterize him
as a heretic – but not a renegade – in a way a quadruple heretic: one who first renounced orthodox Juda-
ism and Zionism, then bourgeois Weltanschaung, then Stalinist communism and eventually orthodox
Trotskyism. A never wavering humanist and a faithful Marxist to the end, Deutscher, in the 1950s and
1960s (and, of course, beyond), had a considerable intellectual influence on many people who could asso-
ciate neither with Western apologists of Cold War nor with Stalinism and reformism; and it is not unlikely
that more people – particularly from middle class milieu – became Trotskyists or at least sympathizers
of Trotskyism rather by the work of Isaac Deutscher than by the action of those Trotskyists (or, 'Trotsky-
ists', if you like) who used to attack him so vigorously2.
Our biographical sketch is based on the material listed in the final paragraphs of the Selected biblio-
graphy section.

Family
Isaac Deutscher was born on April 3, 1907 in Chrzanów, near Kraków [Cracow], Poland 3, as the eldest
son of Jacob Deutscher4, a printer and publisher, and his (second) wife, Gustawa Deutscher (b. Jolles).
In 1947, Isaac Deutscher married Tamara Lebenhaft (1913 - 1990) 5, a teacher, journalist and literary critic
of Jewish-Polish origin who had left Poland first for Belgium and then for Britain. In 1950, the couple
got one child, Martin Charles. From the 1940s, the Deutschers were British citizens.

Childhood and youth - first 'heresy'


The boy, who proved as highly gifted and was equipped with an incredible memory and faculty for
learning, was raised and educated by his orthodox parents in accordance with Jewish traditions. Con-

2
For the quite different and controversial Trotskyist assessments of Isaac Deutscher see the paragraphs Posthumous works and works
on Deutscher and Some assessments and appraisals of our biographical sketch
3
Situated in northwestern Galicia which at that time was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and in 1919 became part of the
independent Polish Republic
4
Both parents of Isaac Deutscher became victims of the Holocaust and disappeared in Auschwitz during World War II. Also his
younger brother and his younger sister perished.
5
Tamara Deutscher (Lebenhaft) came from an atheist and socialist Jewish family. She studied mathematics and history. Undoubtedly,
she played a quite decisive role with regard to Isaac Deutscher's life and work; with Ken Tarbuck's words: "Yet from the time of their marriage
Tamara demonstrated an unswerving devotion to socialism and the ideas which Isaac held. This, however, was not a case of a woman
subordinating herself to her husband. At every turn it was clear that she was totally committed to socialism in her own right. Their marriage
became a true intellectual partnership, the products of which began to appear with the publication of Isaac's biography of Stalin which was
published in 1949. Tamara subordinated her own career as a writer to that of Isaac, acting as his research assistant and, more importantly,
as his collaborator in the fullest sense. It is clear that without her active, dedicated help the Isaac Deutscher that we knew from his writings
would not have existed. [...] There was physical evidence of this close collaboration in the Deutscher's study. Two desks faced each other that
enabled an easy flow of materials and ideas between them. Isaac's desk remained in place after his death, obviously giving support and comfort
to Tamara in the years of widowhood that followed." [Tarbuck, Ken: Tamara Deutscher (1913-1990), in: Revolutionary History, 3.1991 (3),
p. 43]. For some further appreciations of Tamara Deutscher see for example the obituaries by Daniel Singer (Tamara Deutscher, in: The
Independent, 1990, Aug. 10) and of Ralph Miliband (An historic partnership, in: The Guardian, 1990, Aug. 9)

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sidered a sort of infant prodigy and destined to become a Talmudic scholar one day, he first attended a
local Jewish school being a brilliant student of Talmud and Torah, and then a gymnasium in Cracow
where the family settled from 1923. However, already in the age of puberty, Isaac Deutscher rejected
Jewish religiosity, became an atheist and began to break off what he considered oppressing chains with
regard to his self-determination and further intellectual development – that was his first 'heresy'6. More
or less fluent in several languages (Yiddish, Hebrew, Polish, German, French, and Latin), he read
extensively, and as an extra-mural student of literature, philosophy and history at the Uniwersytet
Jagiellónski (Jagellionian University) at Cracow he began to write, translate (into Polish) and publish
poetry, soon making a reputation among the literary avant-garde, students and intellectuals of the city;
he also began to cope with subjects of literary and theatrical criticism and later even made interviews with
Thomas Mann and Stefan Zeromski.

Deutscher becomes a Marxist - second 'heresy'


In 1925, Deutscher said farewell to his parents and moved from Cracow to Warsaw. Soon after taking up
studies in philosophy and economics at the Uniwersytet Warszawski (University of Warsaw), another
‘heresy’ took place in Deutscher: radically renouncing his bourgeois background, he came to accept
Marxism, making history, economics and the real antagonisms of society a very focus of his interest and
activities. In 1926, he joined the ranks of the Kommunistyczna Partia Polski (KPP) (Communist Party
of Poland, CPP), which under the military-autocratic regime of Marshal Josef Pilsudski had been
outlawed and thus had to go underground. Earning his living chiefly as a proofreader (from 1925 to 1939)
on Nasz Przeglcd [Our Review]7, a Jewish newspaper in Polish language to which he also sporadically
contributed articles, chiefly literary criticism; such articles on literature and theatre he also sent to other
papers, e.g. to Nowy Dziennik [New Paper]. His passionate interest in literature and arts never vanished.
At the same time, Deutscher was deeply involved in the editing of clandestine and semi-legal communist
papers, in writing articles – which were published anonymously or under pseudonym with regard to
censorship and political and police repression – for various party pamphlets and papers (as for example
Nowy przeglcd [New Review] and Miesiecznik literacki), and in producing leaflets. "To live a second life
underground was the lot of many in a country without political freedom"8. The young man soon became
a renowned party intellectual. Covertly, he continued his communist agitation even when he had to do
military service in the Polish Army in 1929/30.

From communism to Trotskyism - third 'heresy'


Alerted by the Stalinist Comintern policy of the 'third period', by the hazardous implications of Stalin's
adventurist and suicidal theory and practice of 'social fascism', and in view of the manacing rise of
fascism in Germany, Deutscher soon began to fundamentally criticise Stalin's policy and the general line
of the Stalinized CP (in Poland as well as abroad). His renunciation of Stalinist policy and theory was
intensified by the many negative impressions which Deutscher got when visiting the USSR on behalf of

6
"Yet the father remained a deeply religious man, and he brought up Isaac in the same spirit. Isaac attended a Yehiva and was
known as an Ilui (a youthful genius, in free translation) before his Bar Mitzvah. To seek secular education was a break with tradition in his
family. Still wearing his ringlets and Hassidic garb, he passed the entrance examination at the local Polish high school and soon mastered
Polish to perfection. Later on he made use of the extra-mural facilities of the University of Cracow. He had his teachers and mentors in those
days, but he is essentially a self-educated man, with all the strengths and weaknesses of this type of scholar." [Goldsmith, Samuel Joseph: Isaac
Deutscher : the original sovietologist, in: Goldsmith, Samuel Joseph: Twenty 20th century Jews, New York, NY, 1962, p. 38]
7
A newspaper of Zionist orientation. One of the paper's correspondents, Bernard Singer, became a life-long friend of Deutscher.
8
Goldsmith, Samuel Joseph: Isaac Deutscher : the original sovietologist, in: Goldsmith, Samuel Joseph: Twenty 20th century Jews,
New York, NY, 1962, p. 39

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the Polish CP in 19319 and, of course, by the strong influence of Leon Trotsky who tirelessly attacked
Stalin’s regime in the USSR and Comintern's stupid course of 'social fascism', particularly in Germany,
in innumerable pamphlets and articles, e.g. in his Biulleten’ oppozitsii10 which Deutscher was a reader
of. Like Trotsky, Deutscher strongly advocated a united workers' front against the danger of fascism.
Within the Polish CP, Deutscher began to organize a small anti-Stalinist faction, challenging the party
leadership and of course the Comintern. He factually became a Trotskyist – a 'heretic' once more, this
time a 'heretic' from (Stalinist) communism. Eventually, after having written an article about the danger
of a new barbarism in Europe (in case of a Nazi victory in Germany), objecting the policy of the
Comintern and of the German CP in view of the rise of Nazism, which was published under his
pseudonym A. Krakowski in a Polish-Yiddish paper, Literarishe bleter [Literary Leaves], Deutscher was
expelled from the Polish CP in November 1932 for exaggerating the danger of fascism and for spreading
panic among the workers. From that time, he was considered by the Kremlin and by all brands of Stalinist
communism as a dangerous renegade, defector and traitor. Those Polish communists who were in
solidarity with Deutscher’s vitriolic criticsm and his warnings, were excluded from the party, too.
Deutscher together with other expellees formed the nucleus of a Polish Left Opposition (Bolshevik-
Leninists) which immediately was greeted by Trotsky11 who emphasized their double persecution by the
henchmen both of Pilsudski and of Stalin. Deutscher belonged – together with Hersh Mendel (Sztokfisz),
Solomon Ehrlich and Stefan Lamed – to the leadership of the Polish Trotskyist group at that time which
only in 1934 formally affiliated as a section with Trotsky's International Communist League (ICL).
Trotsky's so-called 'French turn' (i.e. orientation towards entryist tactics) caused some trouble inside the
Polish group, a majority of which eventually agreed with Trotsky. Thus, most of the Jewish (and Yiddish-
speaking) members joined the ranks of the Bund, an anti-Zionist Jewish workers' organization, whereas
most of the Polish (or, Polish-speaking) members – including Deutscher – joined the ranks (from 1935
to 1937) of the Polska Partia Socjalistyczna (PPS, Polish Socialist Party), by far the largest of the
socialist parties of the country which also dominated the trade union movement. The Polish Bolshevik-
Leninists remained a rather small group which in 1938 claimed a membership of only some 350 mili-
tants12.
Still working as a proofreader, Deutscher tirelessly continued his studies and research work. As a conse-
quence from dictatorship, censorship, and last not least from World War, only few of Deutscher’s
writings from his Polish period have survived13, e.g. a booklet about the first Moscow trial14. After having
left the PPS, Deutscher "to have a platform he now had to set up one on his own, a monthly called
Widnokrcg (i.e. Horizon). It was almost literally a one-man show."15

9
During his visit to the USSR, Deutscher was offered the post of a Professor at Moscow University, but he denied.
10
For more details about this mouthpiece of Trotsky see the feature on Biulleten' Oppozitsii, published within the framework of our
LubitzTrotskyanaNet website
11
T[rotsky], L[eon]: Privet pol'skoi levoi oppozitsii!, in: Biulleten' oppozitsii (bol'shevikov-lenintsev) = Bulletin der Opposition
(Bolschewiki-Leninisten), 1932 (29/30), pp. 18-19. For English version see T[rotsky], L[eon]: Greetings to the Polish Left Opposition, in:
Trotsky, Leon: Writings of Leon Trotsky [1932], New York, NY, 193, pp. 180-181.
12
See Alexander, Robert J.: International Trotskyism, 1929-1985 : a documented analysis of the movement, Durham and London,
1991, p. 650
13
For more details see Singer, Daniel: Armed with a pen : notes for a political portrait of Isaac Deutscher, in: Isaac Deutscher : the
man and his work / ed. by David Horowitz, London, 1971, p. 36
14
Deutscher, I.: Proces Moskiewski. - Warszawa : Tow. Wyd. "²wiato", [1936]. - 32 pp.
15
Singer, Daniel: Armed with a pen : notes for a political portrait of Isaac Deutscher, in: Isaac Deutscher : the man and his work
/ ed. by David Horowitz, London, 1971, p. 34

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The question of whether a new, Fourth International (FI) should be launched or not, was controversially
discussed within the ranks of the Polish Trotskyists16. Deutscher was one of those arguing against the
proclamation of such a body at that time because he held that the conditions for its success did not already
exist17, a position which was shared by the majority of the Polish section; thus, the two Polish delegates
to the founding congress of the Fourth International, held at Périgny near Paris in September 1938, voted
– together with one of the French delegates, Yvan Craipeau – against the proclamation of the FI. How-
ever, the Polish Trotskyists remained faithful, and loyally respected the discipline of the International.
During the German occupation and the Nazi terror against the Jewish and Polish population, almost the
entire Polish Trotskyist movement was physically wiped out, with the exception of only a handful sur-
viving militants18. It should be added here, that in 1938 the International Executive Committee of the
Stalinist Comintern dissolved the KPP on the charge that it was thoroughly infiltrated by secret police
agents, saboteurs, etc. Most of those hitherto party leaders who lived in Russian exile, were executed or
deported to Siberian forced-labour camps. Some two decades later, Isaac Deutscher, in a long interview
conducted by K.S. Karol, dealt with the stirring fate of the Polish CP before the War19.

From Trotskyism to freelance Marxism: fourth 'heresy' — From Poland to Britain


The question of the International as a key issue in the Trotskyist discourse as well as some other
differences with Trotsky led Deutscher to become a 'heretic' once again – a 'heretic' (or, dissident) from
official and mainstream Trotskyism – however not a renegade from it; he never repudiated Trotskyism
(as did so many other ex-fellow travellers of Trotsky). After having left the ranks of the Polish
Trotskyists, Deutscher never again affiliated with any Trotskyist (or, other) party or group20, but remained
a 'homeless' Marxist, a political 'freelancer’.
In April 1939, just a few months before Hitler's troops invaded Poland and thus opened World War II,
Deutscher emigrated from Poland to Britain and settled in London where for some months he earned his
living as correspondent of Nasz przeglcd, a Jewish newspaper in Polish language appearing in Warsaw21.
Arriving in Britain, Deutscher hardly spoke a word of English; however, within a considerably short span
of time he learnt English and to write in it – not only fluently but with a powerful, rich, outstanding and

16
See for example Singer, Daniel: Armed with a pen : notes for a political portrait of Isaac Deutscher, in: Isaac Deutscher : the man
and his work / ed. by David Horowitz, London, 1971, p. 34
17
"[...] the three previous Internationals had all been proclaimed in period when the workers and revolutionary movements were
on the upswing, and their establishment had thrown terror into the capitalist ruling class. In contrast, in 1938 there was a conservative and
reactionary trend which would mean that the proclamation of a new revolutionary International would have little impact. This was particularly
the case [...] because of the exceedingly small size of the groups and parties making up the International. Unlike each of its three predecessors,
the Fourth International had no major national working-class or revolutionary group associated with it." [Alexander, Robert J.: International
Trotskyism, 1929-1985 : a documented analysis of the movement, Durham and London, 1991, p. 651]
18
It should be noted that a tiny but heroic group of Jewish Trotskyists functioned in the Warsaw ghetto before it was liquidated by
the Nazis; the group in 1940 and 1941 was even able to illegally produce some 8 issues of Czerwony sztander [Red Flag] and 8 issues of
Przeglad marksistowski [Marxist Review]. See Alexander, Robert J.: International Trotsykism, Durham, NC [etc.], 1991, p.651 and Lubitz,
Wolfgang and Petra: Trotskyist serials bibliography, München [etc.], 1993, p. 70 and p. 215
19
The interview was first published in vol. 13 of the French journal Les Temps modernes; an English version with title The tragedy
of the Polish Communist Party was published in Deutscher, Isaac: Marxism in our time / ed. by Tamara Deutscher, London, 1972, pp.113-160,
and earlier as a pamphlet: The tragedy of Polish communism between the wars, [London], 1956, 36 pp.
20
We are unable to determine whether or not the statement is correct that Deutscher "for a while joined the Trotskyist Revolutionary
Workers League" in London (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Deutscher, as viewed on Nov, 10, 2005)
21
As already mentioned above, Deutscher since 1925 had worked as a proofreader at (and sporadically was contributing to) Nasz
preglcd. With the outbreak of World War II, however, Deutscher was cut off from his income.

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brilliant style, as almost all reviewers of his works – including many of his adversaries – emphasized. Al-
ready in 1939/40, Deutscher was successful in contributing a few articles to the renowned liberal
newspaper The Economist, before he interrupted his journalistic work volunteering from 1940 to early
1942 to serve in the Polish Exile Army in Scotland22.

Deutscher as journalist
In 1942, Deutscher started a quite remarkable career as a Fleet Street journalist by joining the editorial
staff of The Economist, soon advancing to the paper's foremost expert on Soviet and East European affairs
and one of its principal military commentators. He held the post at The Economist until 1949. At the same
time (and until 1947) he also was a member of the editorial board of The Observer, another renowned
liberal newspaper23. The total number of articles which Deutscher penned for The Observer and The Eco-
nomist – many of them appearing anonymously or signed by "The Editors" or "A special correspondent"
– probably exceeds 1,00024. A good deal of his articles in The Observer were published under his pen-
name Peregrine; as journalist on The Obersver, he functioned as roving European (continental) correspon-
dent, and at the same time enjoyed a column of his own, "Peregrine's European notebook". Recognised
as a very authority on Soviet and European matters and on the history of the Russian revolution,
Deutscher more or less frequently penned syndicated articles – probably more than 150 – which appeared
in various renowned British and American papers – thus for example in The Manchester Guardian
(1953-?), The Reporter (1949-1961), The Nation (1965-1966), The Statesman – as well as in leading
newspapers in some fifteen continental European countries, in India and in Japan.

Deutscher as historian, biographer, essayist and editor


— The 'Stalin' biography
Even more than by his brilliant journalistic work, Isaac Deutscher came to be known – particularly in
Britain and the English-speaking world – as an essayist, historian and biographer. With the unfolding of
the Cold War in 1946/47, Deutscher – at least partially – retired from full-time Fleet Street journalism
and began to care about less 'ephemeral' works, the first of which should to be his Stalin, a political bio-
graphy, published by the renowned Oxford University Press in 1949, at the time the only exhaustive bio-
graphy of the Soviet dictator and former World War II ally of Roosevelt and Churchill, but now – at the
climax of the Cold War – the demonized bogyman absolute. Partially praised as an outstanding example
for objective and serious historiography, partially rejected as an apologetic work playing down Stalin's
crimes and the danger of Soviet expansionism etc., the book was translated into more than a dozen
languages and soon was taken notice of worldwide, its author gaining a degree of notoriety which was
quite remarkable in view of the fact that Deutscher was a veritable outsider, neither a communist nor a
spokesman of the West in the Cold War. Stalin went into many editions, the enlarged edition of 1967 con-
taining a longer postscript relating to Stalin's last years. Whatever the shortcomings of his Stalin might

22
Under General Sikorski, parts of the Polish Army could escape from Nazi-occupied France to Britain where they were regrouped
in Scotland. However, as we know from Tamara Deutscher, Isaac had to spent most of his military life in the punitive camps before he was
released in 1942. It goes without saying that for a critical Marxist Jew like Deutscher, the Polish Exile Army in which the spirit of Polish
nationalism and anti-Semitism was predominant, was no place to make a career. See also Singer, Daniel: Armed with a pen : notes for a political
portrait of Isaac Deutscher, in: Isaac Deutscher : the man and his work / ed. by David Horowitz, London, 1971, p. 38
23
Another prominent non-British journalist in the editorial staff of The Observer was Sebastian Haffner (ps. of Raimund Pretzel,
1907-1999) who had come to England as a refugee from Germany. Whereas Deutscher contributed as a faithful Marxist to this liberal organ,
Haffner did so from a rather conservative, however strictly anti-fascist point of view. He later should become one of the most renowned
journalists and commentators in Germany
24
According to Syré, Ludger: Isaac Deutscher : Marxist, Publizist, Historiker, Hamburg, 1984, p. 400.

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have been – Deutscher now was considered as an eminent expert on the Soviet Union, by some as a
'Kremlinologist' or 'Sovietologue', whose opinions were noted and which, of course, caused many discus-
sions and controversies25.
— Other book publications
His reputation as an outstanding writer and historian even increased by a number of historico-political
books which he wrote during the 18 years between the publishing his Stalin and his death in 1967; most
of these book publications were focusing on the Soviet Union, the Russian revolution, Stalinism, Maoism,
and the Cold War; some of the books were thematical or chronological collections of essays, lectures or
interviews originally published in various sources and countries. To mention only the most eminent
books26:
– The Soviet trade unions (1950),
– Russia after Stalin (1953),
– Heretics and renegades27 (1955), a collection of essays on Marx, Trotsky, Carr, Stalin, the Beria affair
and other topics,
– Russia in transition (1957), a collection of essays on post-Stalinism, on Khrushchev, Marx, Trotsky,
Carr, Orwell and other topics,
– The great contest - Russia and the West (1960), a compilation of lectures delivered at various Canadian
universities in 1959 on invitation of the Dafoe Foundation and the Canadian Institute of Interna-
tional Affairs,
– Ironies of history - essays on contemporary communism (1966), a collection of essays about Stalinism
and De-Stalinization, the Russian revolution, Stalin, Khrushchev, Lenin, Mao, Trotsky,
Pasternak, Vietnam and other topics,
– The unfinished revolution - Russia 1917-1967 (1967), an edited version of his George Macaulay
Trevelyan Lectures delivered at the University of Cambridge in early 1967 and at the same time
a definitive summing up of Deutscher's views on the Russian revolution,
– The Non-Jewish Jew and other essays (1968), published posthumously, edited and introduced by
Tamara Deutscher, this collection contains some fundamental essays from Deutscher's pen about
Jewishness, the Jewish question and about the Israeli-Arab war of June 1967, inter alia The Non-
Jewish Jew, originally being Deutscher's address delivered at the Jewish World Congress in
February 1958. The term "Non-Jewish Jew", coined by Deutscher to characterize those great
humanists of Jewish origin (e.g. Spinoza, Marx, Trotsky, Luxemburg, Freud) who once had
transcended the narrow boundaries of Jewishness and the confines of Jewish tradition, exactly

25
"Some of Deutscher's analytical forecasts and assumptions were soon to become truisms. At the time, when the orthodox view
was that Stalinism was eternal and unalterable, they appeared as a dangerous heresy." [Singer, Daniel: Armed with a pen : notes for a political
portrait of Isaac Deutscher, in: Isaac Deutscher : the man and his work / ed. by David Horowitz, London, 1971, p. 46]
26
For a fairly complete listing see the sub-paragraph on Books/pamphlets (co-)authored by Deutscher within our Selective biblio-
graphy below. Please note, that most of the titles listed here were published in different British and American editions, that there often have
been later editions and prints as well as pocket book editions, sometimes with varying title proper, and that most of the books have been
translated into various Western European languages and some even into Japanese, Chinese, Turkish, Greek, Farsi, and Hebrew. Unfortunately,
we lack reliable information about the total print-run of all of Deutscher's writings, but - conservatively estimated - we would like to guess that
the total of Deutscher books sold must be a six-part number. The 3 volumes of the original British edition of the Trotsky biography alone were
sold about 6,000 times, some of the pocket book editions, however, had considerably bigger print-runs. With regard to languages/translations
see also the introductory remarks to our Selective bibliography
27
For Deutscher, both terms were crucial. He "draw a vital distinction between 'heretics and renegades', since he was to pour scorn
over the latter, who had broken with Stalinism allegedly in the name of socialist purity, only to become the uncritical servants of the capitalist
establishment [...]" [Singer, Daniel : Armed with a pen : notes for a political portrait of Isaac Deutscher, in: Isaac Deutscher : the man and his
work / ed. by David Horowitz, London, 1971, p. 30]

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could be applied to himself;


– Russia, China,and the West 1953-1966 (1970), a selection of Deutscher's journalistic writings, edited
by Fred Halliday and published posthumously,
– Lenin's childhood (1970), edited and introduced by Tamara Deutscher and published posthumously.
This booklet is a fragment of a large-scale Lenin biography which Deutscher had begun to work
on after having finished his Trotsky trilogy (see below). Yet Deutscher's sudden and tragical death
in 1967 prevented the completion of this great work.
— The 'Trotsky' trilogy
Undoubtedly, the greatest and – not only in our opinion – most eminent and lasting of Deutscher's works
has been his 3-volume Trotsky biography. Originally published by Oxford University Press, the famous
trilogy has been constituted by the following parts:
– The prophet armed (originally published in 1954)
– The prophet unarmed (originally published in 1959)
– The prophet outcast (originally published in 1963)
After he had published his Stalin, Deutscher began work on a Trotsky biography; what was intended first
as a one-volume work eventually extended to three volumes (with more than 1,500 pages altogether), the
first of which was published in 1954, followed by the second in 1959 and the third in 1963; "this trilogy,
superbly researched, clearly and energetically written, provides one of the most absorbing accounts of
the history of modern communism and a magnificent 'monument to one of the most remarkable historical
figures of the present century'. Deutscher, said a reviewer in the Times Literary Supplement, is an excee-
dingly vivid writer with a sense of style and a warm and understanding sympathy for his hero: this makes
him a first-rate biographer"28. The trilogy went into many editions; the entire work or abridged versions
of it, respectively, has been translated into various languages, e.g. French, German, Italian, Spanish,
Portuguese, Swedish, Serbo-Croatian, Greek, Turkish, Hebrew, Farsi, Japanese29. Thus, his Trotsky found
a worldwide dissemination, unparalleled for at least some three decades30 and vigorously coining
Trotsky's image in readers' mind. After he eventually was granted an U.S. visa, Deutscher in the
preparation of his magnum opus could use the famous Trotsky Archives at Houghton Library (Harvard
University)31, a veritable goldmine of information for a historian working on Trotsky. For his research
work on the third volume of the trilogy – treating the final exile phase in Trotsky's life, 1929-1940 –
Deutscher even had the privilege to access the then 'closed section' of this archives, which, due to a
stipulation once made by Trotsky himself, should not be opened to the public before 1980. Although
some Trotskyists repeatedly had warned Trotsky's widow, Natalia Sedova, to beware of the 'intrudor', she
in 1960 eventually gave Deutscher special permission to consult the closed section; after some
misunderstandings could have been cleared and Sedova had got acquainted with Deutscher's work, the
widow of the great revolutionary and his renowned biographer became friends; Deutscher frequently
visited the old woman, who then lived in Paris, and always treated her with affection; he was one of the

28
[Anon.]: Deutscher, Isaac, in: World authors 1950-1970 / ed. by John Wakeman, New York, NY, 1975, pp. 385
29
Additionally, in 1991, a Russian-language 'pirate edition' of The Prophet outcast, introduced and commented by N.A. Vasetskii
was published in Moscow with title Trotskii v izgnanii. In 1999, a Chinese translation of the entire trilogy was published in Beijing
30
It was only in 1988 that another full-scale Trotsky biography appeared, which could be considered congenial: the scholarly
magnum opus Trotsky by the French Trotskyist historian Pierre Broué. For more information about this outstanding Marxist and about his
Trotsky as well as about Broué's assessment of Deutscher and his trilogy, we would like to refer to the Broué chapter within our Lubitz
TrotskyanaNet website
31
Within the framework of the Research Facilities chapter our Lubitz TrotskyanaNet website we are providing a feature about this
unique archival collection

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speakers at her funeral in 196232.


It goes without saying that Deutscher's Trotsky trilogy at least provoked as much controversy33 as his
Stalin did. Thus, Deutscher was highly praised by a great number of reviewers (e.g. E.H. Carr, the re-
nowned British historian of modern Russia) whereas others confronted him with the reproach of being
an apologist or having written his Trotsky from a point of view too close to the subject of his biography,
i.e. having been carried away by sympathy. However, most reviewers, whether sharing Deutscher's view
or not, correctly considered Deutscher's Trotsky as a very masterpiece of English prose34.

Other activities
However, Deutscher's considerable publicity in the 1950s and 1960s was not only based on his master-
works about Stalin and Trotsky, his other book publications and his early journalistic work, but also on
a variety of further activities of which we would like to mention the following:
– Deutscher wrote a considerable number of essays which originally were published in renowned British,
American and French journals such as for example Partisan Review, Dissent, Soviet Studies, New
Left Review, Les Temps modernes, Les Lettres nouvelles35;
– he was also author of book reviews36 – published chiefly in The Times Literary Supplement – and of
obituaries37 and other miscellanies;
– he edited (or, co-edited) several books, for example The age of permanent revolution which was an
anthology of basic texts by Leon Trotsky, edited together with George Novack; this book was
published in several editions and it was translated into German, Spanish and other languages;
– he wrote introductions or forewords to several works, for example to Hersh Mendel's Memoirs of a
Jewish revolutionary;
– he was the author of a lot of radio scripts and radio talks38, e.g. The great purges, a 3-hour documentary
on the Moscow show trials (1962), or The Stalin myth, a 3-hour documentary on Stalin's rise to
power and his rule (1957). He also participated in TV discussions in Britain, the U.S. and Ger-
many;
– he participated in scholarly conferences and similar gatherings, and as an invited lecturer he addressed

32
See Singer, Daniel: Armed with a pen : notes for a political portrait of Isaac Deutscher, in: Isaac Deutscher : the man and his
work / ed. by David Horowitz, London, 1971, p. 55. - Deutscher's graveside speech in honour of Natalia Sedova was published in the collection
Hommage à Natalia Sedova-Trotsky : 1882-1962, Paris, 1962, pp. 45-49
33
For a compilation and thorough discussion of various assessments (inter alia by H. Seton-Watson, M. Fainsod, F.C. Barghoorn,
R. Pipes, J.L.H. Keep, A. Thulstrup, A. Stender-Petersen, E. Oberländer, B.D. Wolfe, H. Kehler, L. Labedz, P. Sethe, E. Litvinoff, J. de Kadt)
of Deutscher as a Trotsky biographer see Haas, Leonhard: Trotzki : Seher oder Blinder? Stimmen über Leiba Bronstein und Deutschers Werk
über ihn, in: Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Geschichte, 15.1965 (4), pp. 467-506. - As at the early 1980s there were at least some 500 reviews
(including book notices and the like) of the Trotsky trilogy. [See Syré, Ludger: Isaac Deutscher : Marxist, Publizist, Historiker, Hamburg, 1984,
p. 400]
34
We are dealing with the reception of the Trotsky trilogy and with the assessment of Deutscher as writer and historian in the
paragraph Posthumous works and works on Deutscher. Furthermore, we would like to refer to the secondary literature listed in the respective
paragraphs of our Selective bibliography
35
For a fairly complete listing of journals, newsletters, bulletins and other resources to which Deutscher, frequently or sporadically,
contributed essays, articles, reviews, notes, etc. see the sub-paragraph on Books, collections, journals, newspapers, bulletins to which Deutscher
contributed within our Selective bibliography
36
Thus, for instance, he reviewed works of E.H. Carr, G. Lukács and A. Kerenskii in TLS
37
For example Deutscher, Isaac: Natalia Sedova - devotion to Trotsky, in: The Times, 1962 (Jan. 24)
38
Some of his BBC radio talks were published in The Listener. Some libraries and archives, as for example the International
Instutute of Social History (ISSH, Amsterdam), are in possession of audio cassettes and tapes of Deutscher's talks, addresses and lectures.

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large audiences and delivered lectures for example at the Royal United Services Institution
(RUSI), the London School of Economics (LSE), the London University College Socialist Society,
the Annual Socialist Scholars Conference, the New School for Social Research, the State Univer-
sity of New York (Binghamton), the Princeton University, the Columbia University, the Harvard
University, the Manitoba University, the Harpur College;
– he gave a lot of interviews and took part in innumerable (public) discussions and debates;
– he was a contributor to encyclopaedias and similar reference works;
– the screenplay of the documentary film Exile in Büyükada (Venice, Cal., Pathfinder Home Entertain-
ment, 2002) has been based on the final volume of his Trotsky trilogy;
– although deeply involved in historical research and writing, Deutscher all the time followed the course
of events with passion and interest39, engaging himself in the great political debates of his time
and vigorously influencing the unfolding New Left by his writings and lectures. Deutscher was
a main speaker at the famous Vietnam mass teach-ins in Washington and Berkeley in 1965, at
various solidarity meetings and similar events, and last not least he was a prominent member of
Bertrand Russell's International War Crime Tribunal.

Posthumous works and works on Deutscher.


As already mentioned above, some books composed of earlier published essays, lectures or journalistic
work, were published after Deutscher's death (1967), chiefly by his widow, Tamara Deutscher, inter alia
the fragment of his projected Lenin biography (Lenin's childhood, 1970). In 1981, the correspondence,
edited by Hermann Weber, between Deutscher and Heinrich Brandler, once the spokesman of the
Bukharinist (or, 'right') wing of the anti-Stalinist opposition within the German CP, was published in 1981
with title Unabhängige Kommunisten : der Briefwechsel zwischen Heinrich Brandler und Isaac Deut-
scher 1949-1967, in German only. Also exclusively in German, a volume with a preface by Tamara Deut-
scher was published one year earlier: Reportagen aus Nachkriegsdeutschland (1980).
There is a great quantity of secondary literature relating to Deutscher40, mainly, of course, reviews of his
various books, and articles dealing generally with his historical works or with his entire writing and publi-
shing. It is quite a truism that the very different assessments of Deutscher have been perfectly mirrored
in those reviews and in similar items focusing on his work: besides innumerable affirmative and apprecia-
tive – though not necessarily uncritical – judgements there are at the same time innumerable contribu-
tions emphasizing his shortcomings, mistakes and blunders. Apart from the Stalinists' spokesmen, there
have been at least two major groups of persons standing out for the most fundamental criticism41: First,
former communists who in view of the Cold War had shifted to the right, changed their hitherto positions
radically from Stalinism to Stalinophobia and had become what Deutscher used to describe by the term
'renegades'. It goes without saying that these people could approach Deutscher only with hostility and
suspicion; in their worldview there was no space for an 'anti-anti-communist' like Deutscher, for a 'stub-
born', dissident Marxist rejecting to take part in the West's anti-communist crusade. Second, not all, but

39
"While living with Trotsky, Deutscher never ceased surveying the world from his watchtower." [Singer, Daniel: Armed with a
pen : notes for a political portrait of Isaac Deutscher, in: Isaac Deutscher : the man and his work / ed. by David Horowitz, London, 1971, p. 46]
40
A selection of secondary sources is listed in our Selective bibliography
41
As an example for extremely vitriolic and fundamental criticism of Deutscher (or, better: for 'unmasking' or 'debunking' him), we
can refer to the contributions by Leo Labedz [for full bibliographic records see our Selective bibliography]

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a considerable number of, Trotskyists42 obviously could not forget and forgive that Deutscher once had
dissociated from the Trotskyist movement and that he had criticised not only this or that tactical measure
of the 'Old Man' but also opposed the founding of the Fourth International, minimizing its role and im-
portance in various of his writings. The common and main verdict of both groups of critics is that of Isaac
Deutscher being the apologist absolute of Stalinism, or – to quote Daniel Singer – "a different devil to
different people"43.
Some other critics, e.g. French historian Pierre Broué and a former secretary to Trotsky, Jean Van Heijen-
oort, complained about Deutscher's shortcomings with regard to lacking in exactness and historiographic
reliability44.
Besides reviews, articles and, of course, obituaries, there have been published also some pamphlets and
book-length publications about the life and work of Isaac Deutscher45; the most relevant of them are – in
our view – the biography by Ludger Syré46 (1984) and a collection edited by David Horowitz47 (1971);
the last-mentioned volume contains critical, but sympathetic, assessments and appreciations, inter alia
contributions by Tamara Deutscher, Daniel Singer and Larence Daly about certain aspects of Deutscher's
biography, contributions by Louis Menashe, Marcel Liebman and Chrisopher Hill about Deutscher as
historian and theoretician, as well as contributions by Steven Unger and V.G. Kiernan about Deutscher's
Marxism, his political activism and his impact on the American New Left.
Ludger Syré's work – originally accepted as a PhD in 1983 – is a thorough study based on rich sources
(including archivalia) about almost all aspects of Deutscher's life and work: his family background, his
itinerary from Jewish child to Jewish heretic, from party communist to Trotskyist heretic, his journalistic
work duringWorld War II and during the Cold War, his analyses of the internal developments in the
USSR and Eastern Europe, of the roots of the Cold War, his analyses of the socio-political restauration
in Western Europe and Germany, etc. Some chapters of the work are focusing on Deutscher's historical-

42
Some leaders and writers from the Trotskyist scene, e.g. many of those adhering to the Healyist and Lambertist current, either totally
ignored Deutscher or attacked and denounced him as a tool of Stalin, as a heretic, revisionist, liquidationist, ideological foster-father of Michel
Pablo, or simply as petty-bourgeois liberal and Anti-Marxist. As examples for rigid Trotskyist criticism of Deutscher, we can refer to the
contributions by Tony Cliff, Robert Black, Cyril Smith [for bibliographic records see our Selective bibliography]. One could add another group
of critics: those who disassociated from Trotskyism, but not – as Deutscher had done – to remain revolutionary Marxists or radical leftists; here
one could mention Julius Jacobson as an example [for full bibliographical record see our Selective bibliography]. However, we would like to
clearly emphasize again, that the absolutely negative assessments of Isaac Deutscher by no means have been shared by all Trotskyist factions
and currents...
43
Singer, Daniel: Armed with a pen : notes for a political portrait of Isaac Deutscher, in: Isaac Deutscher : the man and his work
/ ed. by David Horowitz, London, 1971, p. 44
44
For a quite vitriolic, even crushing criticism of this kind, see for example the following by JeanVan Heijenoort: "But what is
surprising is that, in his accounts of such episodes, his narration is both detailed and erroneous. Even in the parts of his book [The prophet
outcast] based on documents, errors abound. Dates are wrong, which lead to inconsistencies, later patched up at the price of further distortion.
My impression is that Deutscher worked hurriedly in the archives, more like a reporter who grabs any information than a historian who sifts
documents. [...] No serious student should accept a date or piece of information in his narration without first verifying it independently. There
are few pages that do not call for some comment." [Van Heijenoort, Jean: With Trotsky in exile : from Prinkipo to Coyoacán, Cambridge, Mass.
[etc.], 1978, pp. 153-154. – Again, in Intercontinental Press, 16.1978 (17), p. 518, Van Heijenoort stated: "Deutscher's book, for example, is
very useful in some ways, but historians will have to begin all over again because it includes so many errors. And his errors have been picked
up and expanded upon by other writers". Tamara Deutscher replied on this in a letter to the editors, which was published in ibid., 16.1978 (29),
p. 895 with title Deutscher comments on Van Heijenoort interview
45
For a fairly complete listing see our Selective bibliography
46
Syré, Ludger: Isaac Deutscher - Marxist, Publizist, Historiker, sein Leben und Werk 1907-1967, Hamburg, 1984, 422 pp. [for full
bibliographic record see our Selective bibliography]
47
Isaac Deutscher - the man and his work / ed. by David Horowitz, London, 1971, 254 pp. [for full bibliographic record see our
Selective bibliography]

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biographical masterworks, on his involvement in political activism and his role in the formation of a New
Left, on his assessment of Maoism, the Sino-Soviet split, etc.; the Deutscher reception is dealt with in
author's introduction.

Deutscher's death
At the age of 60, Isaac Deutscher died untimely of a heart attack, during a visit to Rome, on August 19,
1967. "Thousands of people from Berkeley to Tokyo, who had never approached him personally, had the
feeling they had lost not only a teacher but a fellow-fighter when he was more needed than ever" 48. A
great memorial meeting took place at Gandhi Hall, London, in 1967.

The Deutscher Memorial Prize


After Deutscher's death, a memorial foundation was launched which since 1969 awards annually the
Deutscher Memorial Prize "for a book which exemplifies the best and most innovative new writing in
or about the Marxist tradition"49. The previous year's recipient of the prize delivers each year inNovember
a Deutscher Memorial Lecture. As a rule, these lectures are subsequently published in a scholarly left
journal, like for example New Left Review or Historical Materialism. Recently, the 2005 prize has been
awarded to Kevin Murphy for his book Revolution and counterrevolution : class struggle in a Moscow
metal factory. Previous recipients of the Deutscher Memorial Prize were inter alia L. Colletti, M. Rodin-
son, M. Liebman, W. Brus, R. Bahro, N. Harding, B. Kagarlitskii, T. Shanin, R. Brenner, T. Eagleton,
E.J. Hobsbawm, J. Rosenberg, H. Kaye, D. Sassoon, M. Nicolaus, R. Blackburn, P. Gowan, N. Davidson.
The prize was not awarded in 1971 and 1998.

48
Singer, Daniel: Armed with a pen : notes for a political portrait of Isaac Deutscher, in: Isaac Deutscher : the man and his work
/ ed. by David Horowitz, London, 1971, p. 52
49
See The Deutscher Prize Web Site, URL: http://www.deutscherprize.org.uk/
By the way, Tamara Deutscher until her death was a devoted member of the jury

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Some assessments and appraisals


To illustrate some of the key remarks made in our biographical sketch, we would like to present some
short and telling quotations from secondary literature relating to Deutscher's life and work (appraisals,
obituaries, reviews, etc.)50

Dale Shin (2005):


"Originally published under the shadow of the Cold War, Deutscher's classic work [his Trotsky trilogy]
helped to reacquaint readers on both sides of the Atlantic with its subject's prolific life and influence, at
a time when 'Trotskyism' was a popular term of ridicule in left-wing circles – in the main due to the mali-
cious slanders propagated by Moscow's paid intellectual publicists, as well as the petty sectarian feuding
and obsessive hairsplitting amongst Trotsky's self-styled adherents. Deutscher's monumental study, with
each volume chronicling a different chapter of Trotsky's saga – from his role in the October uprising and
civil war, through his leadership of the ill-starred Left Opposition to Stalin, to his exile from the USSR and
eventual assassination at the hands of a Soviet agent – sought to redeem his rich (if uneven) legacy; but also
to recall the democratic ideals that had animated the Russian Revolution in its early years, before the
Stalinist counter-revolution buried them, along with the women and men who fought against their per-
version. More than a decade after the collapse of 'communism', Verso has reissued Deutscher's magisterial
trilogy so as to remove anew the amnesia, and anathema, that continue to surround Leon Trotsky and the
revolution he was made for." 51

Anon. (1967):
"The independent line he took in Poland remained constant with him. He kept his Marxist faith. He would
respect some of Stalin's achievements, but distrusted most of what he did, and had little respect at all for
his ideological thinking. [...] Sometimes Deutscher was called a romantic, sometimes a prophet. The terms
do not do full justice to his deep scholarship, based on his unremitting and intelligently selected reading
of primary sources in Russian, Polish, German, French and, if need be, other languages – where he was
helped as in all other ways, by his Polish wife Tamara. [...] What is true in the 'romantic' charge is that –
with all his scrupulously careful sifting of facts – he could be enthusiastic about an idea or a man. His work
would not have been so invigorating, or so controversial, if he had lacked this élan. He thought intensively
and felt passionately. [...] It is a remarkable record for a man working alone, in London, in the country, and
back in London, without a university faculty to help him in his research and thinking. He himself knew it
was remarkable; he was quite sure that he had something of value to put out. There was also a great
modesty about him, and in an unfailing kindness and a touching courtesy – at times, too, hours of sheer
boyish glee – in his meetings with friends." 52

Lubomir Sochor (1968):


"Although Isaac Deutscher ceased being a communist in an organizational sense, he never gave up being
a Marxist. He remained 'stubbornly' and 'obstinately' a Marxist who held fast to the Marxist scientific me-
thod and theory but did not recognize the authority of the various interpreters of Marxism. [...] Deutscher's
point of view makes it easier to understand his study of the makeup of the minds of ex-communists, in
which he sought to discover the distinction between heretics and renegades. Most of the renegades among

50
We are aware, that the selection of these quotations might be considered arbitrarily and not necessarily representative
51
Shin, Dale: [Review] Made for revolution, in: New Socialist, 2005 (51), pp. 38-39
52
[Anon.]: Mr Isaac Deutscher : leading scholar of revolutionary Marxism, in: The Times, 1967 (Aug. 21), p. 8. [Obituary]

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the ex-communists are distinguished by their anti-communism. They are Stalinists turned inside out who
still see the world in identical black-and-white terms. As communists they failed to see the difference be-
tween the fascists and the social democrats and as ex-communists they lose their ability to see the distinc-
tion between fascism and Stalinism. [...] None of the heroes in Deutscher's biographies appears as a 'deus
ex machina' or as a 'diabolus ex machina'. The personalities are more or less talented spokesmen of the cur-
rents and factions of the revolutionary movement behind which stand complex and antagonistic social
forces. [...] His point of departure for the study of Stalinism is the relationship between a certain type of
bureaucratized revolutionist and the bureaucratization of the revolution in a backward country exhausted
by the war and the results of foreign intervention. [...] Deutscher however did not employ simplistic sche-
mata. Historical situations are determined but their determination is not one-sided, undeviating, or clear-cut.
They always hold certain alternatives. They permit certain narrowly limited but real choices or alternatives.
[...] Deutscher's books are among the pearls of Marxist historiography. They bear comparison with such
outstanding works as Marx's Eighteenth Brumaire, Engels' The peasant war in Germany, or Mehring's Die
Lessinglegende. It is a characteristic feature of these books that they are not only history but at the same
time sociology of the revolution, a concrete and yet generalized analysis of its driving forces." 53

Irving Howe (1964):


"Simply as a biography, The Prophet Outcast [...] is a masterful performance. One cannot imagine that in
the next few decades there will be another life of Trotsky as full and authoritative as this one. Deutscher's
research, including the first thorough use of the Trotsky archives at Harvard, has been prodigious; his
knowledge of the anti-Stalinist European left between the twoWorld Wars is expert; his writing, though
a bit too florid for my taste, is in the grand style [...] Yet the very perspective of sympathy which provides
Deutscher with enormous advantages as a biographer creates for him serious difficulties as a historian. He
lacks intellectual detachment. He lapses against other writers, especially those of the democratic left, with
whose views he disagrees. Frequently he comes forth as a partisan concerned to vindicate his own theories
about Stalinism, theories he assimilates much too easily to Trotsky's thought. [...] Where, as it seems to me,
Deutscher does not establish sufficient intellectual distance from his subject is in his failure to discuss
adequately, let alone to criticize fundamentally, Trotsky's persistent loyalty to the Bolshevik tradition. [...]
Deutscher's theory will surely prove to be popular in the coming years, even more so than it already is in
certain left-wing European circles; for it seizes upon the authoritarian side of Trotsky's thought while
dismissing the revolutionary-democratic side, and it yields to the abstraction of historical development or
of technological progress those tasks which can be won only through conscious human struggle. Like many
others, Deutscher suffers from a modern disease: the infatuation with History. He has not yet learned that
devious and unpredictable as human history may be, History is a bitch." 54

Ken Tarbuck (1991):


"[...] It can be said that the Trotskyist movement would have been much poorer intellectually than it was
without the joint effort of Isaac and Tamara. Their joint works reached a standard of scholarship and
breadth of vision which was rarely, if ever, matched by Trotsky's latter-day followers. Considering that
English was a second language for both of them, their mastery of its prose was of the highest order. Both
Tamara and Isaac refused to become caught up in the internecine factional fighting of the left. This was
not a refusal to commit themselves. Rather it was an understanding that their contributions would have been
less had they become embroiled in the many small sects claiming Trotsky's inheritance." 55

53
Sochor, Lubomir: The importance of Isaac Deutscher's work as seen by a Czechoslovak intellectual, in: Intercontinental Press,
6.1968 (29), pp. 739-741
54
Howe, Irving: [Review] The life of Trotsky, in: The New Republic, 150.1964 (March 21), pp. 20, 22, and 23
55
Tarbuck, Ken: Tamara Deutscher (1913-1990), in: Revolutionary History, 3.1991 (3), p. 43

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Anon. (1969):
"Even though many critics are unsure about the validity of Deutscher's works, they continue to praise his
accomplishments. Walter Laqueur, who considers him more a prophet than a historian, writes: 'Of all those
who have written about Soviet affairs since the Second World War, Isaac Deutscher is one of the most
widely read and interesting. In spite of an inclination towards hagiography, his three-volume study of
Trotsky is the definitive work on the subject and, at the same time, among the best contemporary political
biographies. [...] His style is forceful, the sentiment not artificial; and there are striking historical analogies
and literary allusions'. [...] William P. Gerberding believes that Deutscher has achieved acclaim in the West,
even though he disagrees with the ideologies of the West, because of 'his lucid and vivid writing style. He
is usually engaging and provocative, sometimes even when his dogmas fatally obscure his perceptions.'" 56

Ralph Miliband (1983):


"He was a consistent and severe critic of Stalin and Stalinism; but he allied his condemnation with a
positive assessment of what had been achieved by 'revolution from above' which Stalin had engineered.
A major theme of Deutscher's writings was that a new working class was coming into being in the Soviet
Union, which would in time fulfil the promise of the 'unfinished revolution' begun in October 1917." 57

Perry Anderson (1992):


"The historical conditions that produced this singular revolutionary socialist have passed away. Neither the
living connection with the world of Lenin or Luxemburg, nor the cosmopolitism of an older East-Central
Europe, was available to subsequent generations. Yet Deutscher's work continues to represent an indis-
pensable source for the culture and politics of socialism, because of its peculiar combination of qualities.
Among these was the serene political fortitude with which Deutscher met the contingencies of his own
period – his unshakable fidelity to the political ideals of his youth, amidst so many conflagrations in which
one edifice of the Left after another burnt down, or had to be reconstructed. That fortitude was the product
of his absolute independence of thought – the entire freedom of his person and outlook from those fashions
and phobias which have swayed the intelligentsias of the Left in one direction after another – successively
Stalinist or Maoist, structuralist or post-structuralist, advocates of the new working class or the new social
movements, Eurocommunism or Eurosocialism. But his spiritual independence was the very opposite of
sectarian or pharisaical isolation. Deutscher had an ability to communicate with a greater audience than any
other socialist writer of his generation in English. His books were translated, his articles read, across the
world. Such universality was given by literary power. But this was not simply an aesthetic gift: it reflected
an intellectual command of a classical Marxism so close to its sources in the full range of European culture
and enlightenment behind it that it had no need of a specialized vocabulary [...] to find its words. The
adoption of biography as his mode of writing history had a related meaning - a genre that has always
possessed the widest appeal among the different kinds of literature about the past. In Deutscher's case, the
biographical form had an additional, deeper meaning. In the life of an individual, he could join the
discourses of morality and necessity that Marxism has often found it so hard to hold together. His Stalin
and Trotsky are preeminently products of history, subject to the determinations of wider social forces that
they expressed or rejected: but they are also moral agents, accountable for their actions and the
consequences of them." 58

Ian Birchall (2004):


"After Trotsky's death in 1940 his followers were confined to small meetings and obscure newspapers.
Deutscher, a gifted journalist and a fine writer, could not be ignored. Coinciding with a wave of

56
[Anon.]: Deutscher, Isaac (Peregrine), 1907-1967, in: Contemporary authors : first revision, 5/8 (1969), p. 301
57
Miliband, Ralph: Deutscher, Isaac, in: A dictionary of Marxist thought / ed. by Tom Bottomore [et al.], Oxford, 1983, p. 119
58
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radicalisation around CND, Deutscher brought Trotsky back into the mainstream and introduced him to
a new generation. History is not made by great men, but history sometimes makes great men – Trotsky was
one of them. Reading Deutscher's biography I realise just how outrageous it is that Trotsky's thought was
transformed into something called 'orthodox Trotskyism'. There was nothing orthodox about Trotsky. He
was a bold and original thinker." 59

Theordor Bergmann (1998):


"Er hatte den Mut und die Kraft, Außenseiter zu sein. Er war Kommunist meist ohne Parteibuch, undogma-
tischer Marxist, kritischer Bewunderer Leo Trotzkis, gemieden von denen, die Trotzki in Erbpacht genom-
men hatten, nicht-jüdischer Jude, vaterlandsloser Geselle. Von den Stalinisten wurde er als Agent des
Westens, von den Trotzkisten als Apologet des Stalinismus bezeichnet. Er war Historiker, der einige blei-
bende, große Werke geschrieben hat, und Publizist, auch Journalist, der laufende Ereignisse kommentierte
und dabei manchmal irrte. [...] Unzweifelhaft war er der bedeutendste Marxist der Nachkriegsperiode.
Marxismus war für ihn keine Bibel, kein Kanon, kein Rezeptbuch [...] sondern ein hervorragendes, bewähr-
tes Analyseinstrument, mit dessen Hilfe wir unsere heutige Lage verstehen und die richtige Strategie des
Klassenkampfes erarbeiten können. [...] Seine Hauptsünde in den Augen der Erbpächter der Gedanken Leo
Trotzkis war, daß er in den dreißiger Jahren Trotzki von der Gründung der Vierten Internationale abgeraten
hatte. [...] Er glaubte auch nicht an eine Renaissance jenes orthodoxen Trotzkismus. [...] Deutscher machte
einen scharfen Unterschied zwischen Ketzern im Kommunismus und Renegaten des Kommunismus. Die
Renegaten waren großenteils unkritische, begeisterte, fast gläubige Anhänger des real existierenden Kom-
munismus, d.h. des Stalinismus bzw. des Maoismus gewesen. Unvorbereitet von der Realität enttäuscht,
wurden sie zu Antikommunisten. [...] Der Ketzer dagegen bleibt Marxist und Revolutionär und versucht,
aus vermeidbaren Fehlern, unvermeidlichen Irrtümern und zu verurteilenden Verbrechen, die im Namen
des Kommunismus begangen wurden, zu lernen. Er kritisiert offen, auch auf die Gefahr der
Exkommunikation hin. [...] Isaac Deutscher war und blieb revolutionärer Internationalist. Er unterstützte
den Freiheitskampf der Kolonialvölker, behielt aber seine eigene Position bei. Denn er sah in diesen
Befreiungsbewegungen auch nationalistische Kräfte am Werke. [...] Als jüdischer Kommunist war
Deutscher veranlaßt, seine eigene Position, seine Einstellung zur Jüdischen Frage in der Arbeiterbewegung
und seine Haltung zum Nahostkonflikt zu bestimmen. Er selbst sah sich als 'nichtjüdischen Juden' [...], d.h.
er bekannte sich zu seiner Herkunft, verstand sich aber als Internationalisten. Dennoch wich er der
jüdischen Frage nicht aus. [...] daher anerkannte Deutscher das historische Recht des jüdischen Volkes auf
einen eigenen Staat, blieb jedoch kritisch gegenüber der Politik der israelischen Regierung." 60

Michael Cox (2000):


"An admirer of Trotsky’s but never an acolyte, Deutscher always approached the issue on the USSR there-
fore as a critical Marxist rather than a disenchanted liberal; someone moreover who had known what is
what like to be hunted and hounded by the political apologists of Stalinism. Thus he looked at the Soviet
Union not through the eyes of someone who was fascinated by Russia per se (like Carr) but as a revolution-
ary who was only really interested in the system there to the extent that its actions impacted on the cause
of socialism elsewhere. Deutscher did not belong to any party or faction and made clear his differences
with the organized followers of Trotsky. As he put it rather forcefully in a private letter to the French
Trotskyist Pierre Frank, he was not and 'never' had 'been a believer in the Fourth International'. He remai-
ned as he once put it au-dessus de la mêlée. Yet Deutscher was always an activist in search of action and
when given half a chance, as he was increasingly in the 1960s, he threw himself into the struggle, and no-
where more vigorously than in the United States where he played a crucial role in the early development

59
Birchall, Ian: [Review] All along the watchtower, in: Socialist Review <TSB 1521> [ISSN 0141-2442], 2004 (Jan.)
60
Bergmann, Theodor: Isaac Deutscher - ein jüdischer Ketzer im Kommunismus, in: Utopie kreativ, 1998 (97/98), pp. 95 and 103-
105

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of the anti-Vietnam War movement." 61

Pierre Frank (1967):


"Isaac Deutscher's death is a heavy loss for revolutionary Marxism. [...] As a participant in the Trotskyist
movement, he was against the formation of the Fourth International in 1938. After seeking refuge in
London in 1939, he ceased functioning as a militant and thereafter devoted himself to journalism and to
writing the works through which he became known to an ever-growing public. His articles and essays on
the Soviet Union had nothing in common – is there any need to say so? – with those of the official 'Kreml-
inologists'. The value of his writings, both in substance and style, came not only from his knowledge and
talent; it is above all derived from the fact that the journalist and writer was deeply attached to Marxism
as a method of thought and passionately dedicated to the international struggle of the masses for socialism.
Thus he carried on the struggle as an unaffiliated combatant in a manner suited to his gifts. [...] This bio-
graphy [the Trotsky trilogy] is incontestably a masterpiece worthy of the great revolutionary to whom it was
dedicated. It is impossible to give an appreciation of the work in which not only are the facts scrupulously
set forth in contrast to the colossal lies and calumnities heaped up by Stalinism and the essence of Trotsky's
theories and views presented in the clearest and most striking way, but in which Deutscher, who did not
know Trotsky in his lifetime, was able to paint so lifelike a portrait of that many-sided and complex
personality. He was likewise able to delineate the equally rich personality of Natalia, Leon Trotsky's com-
panion, with much sensitivity. Those who will write about Trotsky in the future [...] may perhaps be able
to add some new elements and make judgements different from Deutscher's, but they will have to take his
trilogy as a point of departure. [...] In particular, we cannot forget that it often served to introduce numerous
young people to Trotskyist ideas which led to their political activity within the Trotskyist movement
itself."62

David Horowitz (1971):


"[...] Throughout his life he remained a lonely, if towering, figure on the political and intellectual landscape
of his time. This is not to say that his genius lacked recognition; his talents were so formidable that they
compelled recognition. But despite his achievements as a biographer, historian, and Marxist he was, in a
deeper sense, a shepherd without a flock. [...] A survivor of the classic period of revolutionary Bolshevism,
Deutscher devoted his main intellectual energies to solving the riddle posed by the fateful close of that era
and the course that Bolchevism followed under the leadership of Stalin. [...] In the end, it was Deutscher's
unique achievement that he constructed in his exile a Marxist vision of Bolshevism and his fate, which
could serve as a bridge between the tradition and achievements of the old revolutionary left and the new.
[...] A real Marxist, Deutscher would say, does not spend his intellectual energies theorizing about
Marxism; he uses Marxist insights to understand society and its development. It is but a measure of
Deutscher's own achievement in employing theoretical insights that the quality of his history is apparent
even to the non-Marxist, whose eye may not recognize the sources of its architecture, but whose sensibility
can appreciate a masterpiece when it sees one." 63

Ralf Rötzinger (1988):


"Weder Rasse noch Religion noch Nationalität machten für Deutscher die Zugehörigkeit zum Judentum
aus, sondern die Solidarität mit den Verfolgten und Ausgerotteten. Ilja Ehrenburgs 'Ich werde stets wieder-
holen, daß ich Jude bin, solange es auf der Welt auch nur einen Antisemiten gibt', galt auch für Deutscher.
[...] Durch seine Schriften, insbesondere durch seine dreibändige Trotzki-Biographie hat er dazu

61
Cox, Michael: E. H. Carr and Isaac Deutscher - a very 'special relationship', in: E. H. Carr : a critical appraisal / ed. by Michael
Cox, Houndsmills, Basingstoke [etc.], 2000, p. 127
62
Frank, Pierre: Isaac Deutscher, in: World Outlook = Perspective mondiale, 5.1967 (30), pp. 755-756
63
Horowitz, David: Introduction, in: Isaac Deutscher : the man and his work / ed. by David Horowitz, London, 1971, p. 9

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beigetragen, das Gedankengut der Vorkriegszeit zu überliefern und einer neuen Generation von Sozialisten
den revolutionären Marxismus bzw. Trotzkismus nahezubringen. Er hat mindestens so gut wie die IV.
Internationale dazu beigetragen, die Geschichte der Oktoberrevolution von allen stalinistischen Ver-
fälschungen und Lügen zu befreien und die wirkliche Rolle Trotzkis darzustellen. Man kann, mit Ernest
Mandel, sagen, daß in den fünfziger und sechziger Jahren kein anderes Buch so viele Leute zum Bruch mit
dem Stalinismus und zur Anäherung an den Trotzkismus geführt hat wie die Trotzki-Trilogie, die nach wie
vor 'eine mächtige Waffe gegen bürgerliche und stalinistische Mystifizierungen und Verfälschungen der
Geschichte' ist (Mandel). [...] Die Arbeiterbewegung bzw. die Linke war nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg
entweder antikommunistisch oder stalinistisch; die wenigen Marxisten blieben isoliert. Der IV. Inter-
nationale mochte Deutscher nicht beitreten. Zudem schien er vielen Trotzkisten suspekt aufgrund der
Stalin-Biographie [...]. Man warf Deutscher vor, sein Versuch, ein objektives Bild von Stalin und dessen
Politik zu zeichnen, sei in eine Legitimation des Stalinismus ausgeartet, das Verstehenwollen sei in Recht-
fertigung übergegangen. Im trotzkistischen Lager galt Deutscher plötzlich als Apologet Stalins." 64

Christoph Jünke (1997):


"Meisterhaft verstand und entfaltete er den noch heute weitgehend unbegriffenen Doppelcharakter der rus-
sischen Revolution als letzte der großen europäischen bürgerlichen Revolutionen und als erste proletarische
Revolution in der Geschichte. [...] Er blieb ein unverbesserlicher Optimist, der auf die Frage, ob der Glaube
an die Menschheit auch noch nach dem Holocaust und der Tatsache, daß dies keinerlei tieferen Eindruck
bei den europäischen Nationen hinterlassen hat, gerechtfertigt sei, emphatisch antwortete: 'Er war es in je-
dem Fall, denn der Glaube an die endgültige Solidarität aller Menschen ist selbst eine der notwendigen
Bedingungen, um die Menschheit zu erhalten und um unsere Zivilisation vom Bodensatz der Barbarei zu
befreien, der noch immer fortwirkt und sie noch immer vergiftet'." 65

Justin Rosenberg (1996):


"[...] For Isaac Deutscher was not just another Marxist. He was one of the most eloquent of those who kept
alive the critical spirit of classical Marxism at a time when in different ways that spirit was being stifled
on both sides of the Cold War. For this alone the present generation of socialists is indebted to him." 66

Cyril Smith (1977):


"For, despite Deutscher's tributes to Trotsky's greatness, brilliance, heroism, etc., he was an opponent of
every one of Trotsky's ideas, and above all an enemy of the Fourth International, the culmination of
Trotsky's life work." 67

Leopold Labedz (1962):


"After a careful analysis of Deutscher's sayings and writings, precious little remains of critical indepen-
dence and historical impartiality; and this explains the suspicion that all his protestations of liberalism and
objectivity, justified by occasional reservations and reluctant strictures, are nothing but a mask necessitated
by 'bourgeois' journalism and academic convention. Deutscher appears to be at the bottom unable to shed
his dogmatic style of thinking and cannot understand free thought unbound by a body of scriptures. A
heretic is after all only a rebel against a particular interpretation of dogma, not against orthodoxy as such.
His vision of Soviet affairs is essentially simplistic. [...] Objectivity and a realistic attitude to facts cannot

64
Grötzinger, Ralf: Isaac Deutscher (1907-1967), in: Inprekorr : internationale Pressekorrespondenz der IV. Internationale, 1988
(199), pp. 23-24
65
Jünke, Christoph: Die Geister der Vergangenheit : vor dreißig Jahren starb der Marxist Isaak Deutscher, in: Analyse & Kritik : AK
; Zeitung für linke Debatte und Praxis, N.F. 27.1997 (406), p. 3
66
Rosenberg, Justin: Isaac Deutscher and the lost history of international relations, in: New Left Review, 1996 (215), pp. 3
67
Smith, Cyril: The practice and theory of Isaac Deutscher, in: Labour Review, 1.1977 (6), pp. 325

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be based on a prophetic approach, but only on sober critical analysis. The picture that emerges is of a man
who takes himself much too seriously as an analyst, who is careless about evidence, always ready to shift
the argument to prove his oracular prescence, reluctant to admit an error, more concerned with the recovery
of faith than with the discovery of truth." 68

KenTarbuck (1992):
"It was a curious contradiction in Deutscher's make-up that he should have failed to understand the neces-
sity for the Fourth International precisely because of the working class defeats of the period, since in many
ways it had to try to do collectively what he tried to do individually by his withdrawal into the 'watchtower'.
The Fourth International could never be a mere repeat - in a different form - of any of the other three
Internationals. That is not to say, of course, that Trotsky and the other founders of the Fourth International
started out with the intention of such a withdrawal, but that was to its historic role for many years. Nor did
Deutscher understand that without organisation his own work would have been largely shouting in the
wind, since those young people who were stirred by his writings could not have turned their message into
meaningful activity without the prior existence of a political organisation." 69

Ronald Aronson (2005):


"Isaac Deutscher stands out among the early intellectual mentors of the New Left as the only one who ex-
pounded classical Marxism. [...] For those of us who were anti-Stalinist Marxists, reading Deutscher's
Trotsky trilogy was a rite of passage. It was simultaneously a sympathetic, critical and reflective biography
of Trotsky and a full-blown history of the Russian revolution. In his Trotsky trilogy and other books and
articles on Stalin, the contemporary Soviet Union and China, the cold war, Marxism, ex-Communists and
Jewish history, Deutscher offered a living Marxism that was both unashamed of its revolutionary commit-
ment and able to grasp historic ironies and tragedies. [...] Paradoxically, the tragic story of Trotsky's rise
and fall gave us a profound sense of hope, even as Deutscher showed at every turn the historical logic be-
hind Stalin's victory and Trotsky's defeat. After all, Deutscher argued passionately that the logic of history
would also demand the fulfillment of socialism's vision of equality, democracy and workers' power in an
advanced industrial society freed from class rule and the market. Trotsky embodied the 'good' Communism,
destroyed by Stalin, that became a revolutiuonary inspiration for many in the New Left." 70

68
Labedz, Leopold: Deutscher as historian and prophet, in: Survey, 1962 (41), pp. 143 and 144
69
Tarbuck, Ken: Ten years without Deutscher : an appraisal of the man and his influence, in: Kendall, Walter: Isaac Deutscher
1907-1967 : a critical appreciation on the twenty-fifth anniversary of his death / Walter Kendall ; Alistair Mitchell and Ken Tarbuck, Worthing,
West Sussex, 1992, p. 5
70
Aronson, Ronald: [Review] The impermanent revolution, in: The Nation, 280.2005 (March 14)

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Selective bibliography
of Isaac Deutscher (1907-1967)
Survey:

# Some introductory remarks


# Books/pamphlets (co-) authored by Deutscher
# Books and newspapers (co-)edited by Deutscher
# Books, collections, journals, newspapers, bulletins to which Deutscher contributed
# Books and articles by eutscher on Trotsky and Trotskyism
# Books about Deutscher
# Articles about Deutscher
# Reviews of Deutscher's Trotsky trilogy

• Some introductory remarks

As we stated in the Biographical sketch, Isaac Deutscher was undoubtedly among the most productive
Marxist/Trotskyist writers. We should like to emphasize that we do not at all claim 'completeness' with
regard to our following Selective Bibliography. Although listing a veritable amount of literature by and
about Deutscher, it must be said clearly that a considerable number of sources have not been considered
here, for example
– many of the translations71 of Deutscher's books and contributions into non-Western European
languages;
– later editions, except occasional references made in bibliographical footnotes (in square
brackets);
– most of his writings from the pre-War Polish period (because they were lost);
– non-print media (electronic resources, videos, records of radio broadcasts, etc.)

As far as we know there is no Deutscher bibliography which could claim completeness. At the time being,
we can refer to three selective bibliographical compilations:
- Deutscher, Tamara: On the bibliography of Isaac Deutscher's writings, in: Isaac Deutscher -
the man and his work / ed. by David Horowitz, London, 1971, pp. 226-247 (on pp. 235-247:
Selected bibliography)
- Syré, Ludger: Bibliographie, in: Syré, Ludger: Isaac Deutscher : Marxist, Publizist, Historiker,
Hamburg, 1984, pp. 400-410
- Casciola, Paolo: Isaac Deutscher : bibliografia italiana, in: Deutscher, Isaac: L'uomo socialista
/ [trad. dall'orig. inglese a cura di Paolo Casciola], Foligno, 1994, pp.21-22.

The following are some notes for a better understanding of certain peculiarities of our Selective Biblio-
graphy:

71
Most of Deutscher's writings listed here were originally written and published in English; however, a considerable number of them
have been translated into other Western European languages (French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, etc.)
– most of them have been considered here. Some of his books and other writings, however, were published in other languages (such as for
example in Polish, Finnish, Hungarian, Serbo-Croatian,Yiddish, Hebrew, Turkish, Farsi, Chinese and Japansese) – those translations have been
omitted here, with a very few exceptions.

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1. In the sub-paragraph Books/pamphlets (co-)authored by Deutscher we have – as a rule – omitted


author's name from the author statement area of the title records whenever Deutscher is the single author
of a book, regardless whether his name is spelled "Isaac Deutscher", "I. Deutscher", or "Izaak Deutscher"
on the title page or cover, unless he is one of two or three authors of a work or if he used a pseudonym.

2. In the sub-paragraphs Books and newspapers (co-)edited by Deutscherand Books, collections, journals,
newspapers, bulletins to which Deutscher contributed, works to which he contributed and which at the
same time were (co-)edited by him, have been listed in both sub-paragraphs.

3. The sub-paragraph Books, collections, journals, newspapers, bulletins to which Deutscher contributed
does not list Deutscher's contributions to collective works, encyclopaedias, journals, newspapers,
bulletins etc. by the distinctive titles proper but by source title only (i.e. by title proper of the journal,
newspaper, collection or the like)72. It goes without saying that a fairly complete repertory of such
contributions – particularly of his articles which appeared in the daily and weekly press – remains a great
desideratum for the future.

4. The sub-paragraph Reviews of Deutscher's Trotsky trilogy is far from claiming completeness faced with
the fact that there are some 500 reviews relating to Deutscher's Trotsky73.

5. The sub-paragraph Books and articles by Deutscher on Trotsky and Trotskyism includes some
doublings with regard to other sub-paragraphs.

6. TSB item numbers (e.g. "<TSB 0716>") refer to our Trotskyist Serials Bibliography (München [etc.],
1993), which is out of print but is available as PDF file within the framework of our Lubitz TrotskyanaNet
website. In TSB you find detailed informations about Trotskyist journals, newsletters, bulletins and the
like.

• Books/pamphlets (co-)authored by Deutscher74

Biografija Lava Davidoviga Bronštejna-Trockog / prevala Nada Soljan. - 1-3. - Zagreb : Liber [etc.], 1975-76. - XII,
319 + 308 + 340 pp. - (Monografije-biografije ; 3)
Il comunismo tra Krusciov e Mao / trad. dall'inglese di Irene de Guttry. - Bari : Laterza, 1964. - 97 pp. - (Libri del
tempo Laterza)
The cultural revolution in China. - 3. impr. - [Nottingham : The Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, [ca. 1966]. -
17 pp. - (Spokesman pamphlet ; 2) [Earlier ed. publ. with title On the Chinese cultural revolution]
La decada de Jrushov / trad. de Mónica Acheroff. - Madrid : Alianza, 1971. - 199 pp.
Dove va l'Unione Sovietica / trad. di Franco Lucentini. - Torino : Einaudi, 1957. - 74 pp.
L'ebreo non ebreo e altri saggi / a cura di Tamara Deutscher. Trad. di Francesco Franconeri. - [Milano] : Mondadori,
1969. - 184 pp. - (Saggi)

72
An exception from this general rule, however, is the sub-paragraph Books and articles by Deutscher on Trotsky and Trotskyism.
73
As at the early 1980s there were at least some 1.300 reviews (including book notices and the like) of works authored by Deutscher,
among them some 500 relating to his Trotsky trilogy and some 300 relating to his Stalin biography. [Source: Syré, Ludger: Isaac Deutscher :
Marxist, Publizist, Historiker, Hamburg, 1984, p. 400]
74
Please note that Deutscher's writings about Trotsky/Trotskyism have additionally been listed in the sub-paragraph Books and
articles by Deutscher on Trotsky and Trotskyism

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L'enfance de Lénine et autres essais sur le marxisme et le communisme / [introd.: Tamara Deutscher]. Trad. de
l'anglais par Elisabeth Gille [et al.]. - Paris : Payot, 1971. - 268 pp. - (Etudes et documents Payot) [& later
ed.]
Eretici e rinnegati e altri saggi / trad. di Elsa Pelitti. - Milano : Longanesi, 1970. - 238 pp. - (La fronda ; 108)
Essais sur le problème juif / prés. et préf. de Tamara Deutscher. Trad. de l'anglais par Elisabeth Gille-Nemirovsky.
- Paris : Payot, 1969. - 205 pp. - (Etudes et documents Payot)
La grande contesa / trad. di Gino Bianco. - Torino : Einaudi, 1961. - 89 pp.
The great contest : Russia and the West. - London : Oxford Univ. Pr., 1960. - 86 pp. - (Dafoe Foundation lectures
; 1959) [& later ed., publ. by various publ. houses]
The great purges / ed. by Tamara Deutscher. Designed by David King. - Oxford [etc.] : Blackwell, 1984. - 174 pp.
Der große Wettkampf : Rußland und der Westen. - Dordrecht : Reidel, 1960. - 98 pp. - (Vorlesungen der Dafoe-
Stiftung, Kanada)
Herejes y renegados. - Barcelona : Ed. Ariel, 1970. - 262 pp. - (Ariel quincenal ; 44)
Heretics and renegades, and other essays. - London : Hamilton, 1955. - 228 pp. [& later ed., publ. by various publ.
houses, partly with an introd. by Edward Hallett Carr. - American ed. publ. with title:Russia in transition]
Den ikke-jødiske jøde og andre essays / utvalg og innl. ved Tamara Deutscher. Overs. av Ellen Sverdrup. - Oslo :
Gyldendal, 1970. - 135 pp. - (Fakkel-bøkene ; 202)
Ironias de história : ensaios sobre o comunismo contemporaneo / trad. de Alvaro Cabral. - Rio de Janeiro : Civili-
zação Brasileira, 1968. - 329 pp. - (Perspectivas do homem ; 43)
Ironías de la historia. Trad. de Juan Ramón Capella. - Barcelona : Ed. Península, 1969. - 309 pp. - (Historia, ciencia,
sociedad ; 49) [& later ed.]
Ironie della storia : saggi sul comunismo contemporaneo / trad. di Elsa Pelitti. - Milano : Longanesi, 1972. - 322 pp.
- (La fronda ; 118)
Ironie van de geschiedenis : essays over het communisme / [vert. uit het Engels: Hans Wagemans]. - 2. dr. - Haarlem
: De Haan, 1979, . 164 pp. - (Tijd contouren)
Ironies of history : essays on contemporary communism. London [etc.] : Oxford Univ. Pr., 1966. - VIII, 278 pp. [&
later ed., publ. by various publ. houses]
Der israelisch-arabische Konflikt / mit einem Vorw. von Ulrike Marie Meinhof. - Frankfurt a.M. : Ed. Voltaire,
1968. - 28 pp. - (Voltaire-Flugschriften ; 21)
O judeu não-judeu e outros ensaios / apresentação e introd. de Tamara Deutscher. Trad. de Moniz Bandeira. - Rio
de Janeiro : Civilização Brasileira, 1970. - 150 pp. - (Coleção Perspectivas de homem ; 61 : Sér. Política)
El judío no sionista y otros ensayos / trad. de Nati Martín Moro. - Madrid, 1971. - 212 pp.
Los judíos no judíos y otras ensayos / [trad. de Gabriela Epstein y Maria Inés Barbero]. - Buenos Aires : Kikiyon,
1969. - 154 pp.
Lenin : frammento di una vita e altri saggi / pref. di Tamara Deutscher. Trad. di Luca Trevisani. - Bari : Laterza,
1970. - 228 pp. - (Tempi nuovi ; 42)
Lenin : los años de formación. - México, D.F. : Ed. Era, 1975. - 120 pp. - (Serie popular Era ; 36)
Lenins barndom. Marxisme i vår tid / red. av Tamara Deutscher. Overs. avHelge Simonsen. - Oslo : Aschehoug,
1972. - 226 pp.
Lenin's childhood. - London [etc.] : Oxford Univ. Pr., 1970. - VIII, 67 pp.
Lenins Kindheit / aus dem Engl. von Christiane Trabant-Rommel. - Frankfurt a.M. : Fischer, 1973. - 83 pp. - (Reihe
Fischer ; 33)
Lenins ungdom / övers. av Bengt Lindroth. - Stockholm : PAN, 1971. - 77 pp. - (En PAN bok)
El maoismo y la revolución cultural China. - México, D.F. : Ed. Era, 1971. - 87 pp. - (Serie popular Era ; 9)
Der Maoismus : Ursprung und Perspektive / Isaac Deutscher. Versuch einer Deutung der "Kulturrevolution" / Ernest
Mandel. - Hamburg : ISP-Verl., [ca. 1971]. - 76 pp.
Marxism in our time / ed. by Tamara Deutscher. - Berkeley, Cal. : Ramparts Pr., 1971. - 312 pp. [& later ed., publ.
by Cape, London]
Marxism, wars and revolutions : essays from four decades / ed. and introd. by Tamara Deutscher. With a pref. by
Perry Anderson. - London : Verso, 1984. - XXIX, 276 pp.
Marxismus und die UdSSR / aus dem Engl. von Christiane Trabant-Rommel. - Frankfurt a.M. : Fischer, 1974. - 115

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pp. - (Reihe Fischer ; 45)


El modelo chino del socialismo / Isaac Deutscher ; Kewes S. Karol. - Montevideo : Tauro, 1969. - 107 pp. -
(Aportes ; 2)
Myths of the cold war. - Ann Arbor, Mich. : Radical Education Project, [1969?]. - 13 pp. [Text of a speech given at
the Berkeley teach-in on Vietnam, May 21-22, 1965]
El marxismo de nuestro tiempo. - México, D.F. : Era, 1975. - 232 pp.
Der nichtjüdische Jude : Essays. - Berlin : Rotbuch-Verl., 1988. - 192 pp.
De niet-Joodse Jood : over het Jood-zijn in de moderne wereld. - Baarn : Wereldvenster, 1969. - 172 pp.
The non-Jewish Jew and other essays / ed. with an introd. by Tamara Deutscher. - London [etc.] : Oxford Univ. Pr.,
1968. - X, 164 pp.
Den ofullbordade revolutionen 1917-1967 / övers. av Maj Frisch. - Stockholm : Aldus/Bonniers, 1967. - 109 pp. -
(Aldusserien ; 203)
Den ojudiske juden / med inl. av Tamara Deutscher. Övers. av Elin Clason. - Stockholm : Rabén & Sjögren, 1969. -
177 pp. - (Tema)
On socialist man. - New York, NY : Merit Publ., 1967. - 29 pp.
On the Chinese cultural revolution. - London : Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, 1967. - 15 pp. [Interview con-
ducted by Ernest Tate. - Later ed. publ. with title: The cultural revolution in China]
De onvoltooide revolutie 1917-1967 / [vert. uit het Engels door Wouter Gortzak]. - Hilversum [etc.] : De Haan [etc.],
1967. - 125 pp. [& later ed.]
Oorlog of vrede : Rusland na Stalin's dood / med een voorw. van H.A. Lunshof. - Amsterdam : Elseviers Weekblad,
1953. - VIII, 188 pp.
Polémica sobre la guerra árabe israelí / Isaac Deutscher ; Simja Flapan. Trad. y pról. de Bernardo Kordon. - Buenos
Aires : Juárez, 1969. - 85 pp.
Proces Moskiewski. - Warszawa : Tow. Wyd. "²wiato", [1936]. - 32 pp.
Las raíces de la burocracia. - Barcelona : Ed. Anagrama, 1970. - 57 pp. - (Cuadernos Anagrama : Serie Documentos
; 1) [& later ed.]
Reportagen aus Nachkriegsdeutschland / mit einem Vorw. von Tamara Deutscher. [Aus dem Engl. von Harry Maor
; aus dem Poln. von Erich Steiner]. - Hamburg : Junius, 1980. - 231 pp.
A revolução inacabada (Rússia 1917-1967) / trad. de Alvaro Cabral. - Rio de Janeiro : Civilização Brasileira, 1968.
- 110 pp. - (Perspectivas do homem ; 40)
La revolución inconclusa : 50 años de historia soviética, 1917-1967 / trad. de José Luis González. - México, D.F.
: Ed. Era, 1967. - 132 pp. - (El hombre y su tiempo : Série História ; 40) [& later ed.]
La révolution inachevée : cinquante années de révolution en Union Soviétique, 1917-1967 / trad. de l'anglais par
Bolo. - Paris : Laffont, 1967. - 232 pp.
La rivoluzione incompiuta (1917-1967) / pref. di Enzo Bettiza. Trad. di Camillo Pellizzi. - Milano : Longanesi,
1968. - 203 pp. - (Studio ; 2) [ & later ed., publ. by Rizzoli, Milano]
Rusia, China y occidente / ed.: Fred Halliday. Trad.: Félix Blanco. - México, D.F. : Ed. Era, 1974. - 285 pp. - (El
hombre y su tiempo) [& later ed.]
Rusia después de Stalin / [introd. de Marcel Liebman. Trad. de la ed. inglesa]. - Barcelona : Martínez Roca, 1972.
- 173 pp. - (Colección Novocurso ; 28)
Russia after Stalin. - London : Hamilton, 1953. - 174 pp. [& later ed., publ. by various publ. houses. - Oxford Univ. Pr.
ed. 1953 publ. with title: Russia : what next?]
Russia, China and the West : a contemporary chronicle, 1953-1966 / ed. by Fred Halliday. - London [etc.] : Oxford
Univ. Pr., 1970. - XIV, 360 pp. [& later ed., publ. by Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, Mx.]
La Russia dopo Stalin / unica trad. autoriz. dall'inglese di L.T. - Milano [etc.] : Mondadori, 1954. - 210 pp. - (Il libro
del giorno ; 19)
Russia in transition, and other essays. - New York, NY : Coward-McCann, 1957. - 245 pp. [& later ed., publ. by Grove
Pr., New York. - British ed. publ. with title: Heretics and renegades]
La Russie après Staline / trad. de l'anglais par Hélène Bayan. - Paris : Ed. du Seuil, 1954. - 184 pp. - (Collection
Esprit)
Rußland und der Westen : der große Wettkampf ; Vorlesungen der Dafoe-Stiftung, Kanada / übertr. von Andrea van

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Calker und Juliane Stiege. - Dordrecht : Reidel, 1960. - 98 pp.


I sindicati sovietici : il loro posto nella politica sovietica del lavoro / trad. di Lisa Foa. - Bari : Laterza, 1968. - 199
pp. - (Tempi nuovi ; 13)
Los sindicatos soviéticos. - México, D.F. : Ed. Era, 1971. - 147 pp. - (El hombre y su tiempo)
Sobre el hombre socialista. - Barcelona : Ed. Rojas, 1978. - 31 pp. - (Ediciones Rojas ; 30)
The Soviet seven-year plan : a summary and prospect. - London : Union of Democratic Control, [ca. 1959]. - 7 pp.
Soviet trade unions : their place in Soviet labour policy. - London [etc.] : Royal Inst. of Internat. Affairs, 1950. - IX,
156 pp. [& later ed.]
Sovjet-Unionen i forvandlingens tegn : 4 gjesteforelesninger holdt ved Manitoba-Univ. i Winnipeg, okt. 1959 /
overs. av Arik Loe. - Oslo : Aschehoug, 1960. - 82 pp.
Sovjet - vesten : den store styrkeprøve / [overs. af Christian Dahlerup Koch]. - København : Aschehoug, 1961. - 79
pp.
Die sowjetischen Gewerkschaften : ihr Platz in der sowjetischen Arbeitspolitik / Einl. von Lisa Foa. Aus dem Engl.
übertr. von Gisela Mandel. - Frankfurt a.M. : Europäische Verl.-Anst., 1969. - 176 pp. - (Theorie und
Praxis der Gewerkschaften)
Die sozialistische Konzeption vom Menschen. - Mannheim : ISP-Verl., [1970]. - 33 pp. [ & later ed.]
Stalin / trad. dall'inglese di Gilberto Forti. - Milano : Longanesi, 1951. - 769 pp. - (Il cammeo ; 43) [& later ed.]
Stalin : a political biography. - London [etc.] : Oxford Univ. Pr., 1949. - IX, 600 pp. [ & later ed., publ. by various publ.
houses]
Stalin : biografía política / trad. de José Luis González. - [México, D.F.] : Ed. Era, 1965. - 521 pp. - (El hombre y
su tiempo)
Stalin : die Geschichte des modernen Rußland / ins Deutsche übers. von Artur W. Just und Gustav Strohm. -
Stuttgart : Kohlhammer, 1951. - 606 pp. [& later ed., publ. with title: Stalin : eine politische Biographie]
Stalin : een politieke biografie. - 1-2. - Hilversum : De Boer/Brand, 1963. - [Various pag.] - (Sterrenserie ; 4-5)
Stalin : een politieke biografie. - [Repr.] 1-2. - Nijmegen : SUN, 1975. - [Various pag.] - (SUN reprint ; 11-12)
Stalin : en politisk biografi / overs. af Henning Kehler. - København : Berlingske Forl., 1949. - 626 pp.
Stalin : en politisk biografi / til norsk ved Andreas Andersen. - Oslo, 1950. - 582 pp.
Stalin : en politisk biografi / svensk övers.: Aida Törnell och Håkan Arvidsson. - Göteborg : Partisan Förl., 1972.
- 522 pp. - (Partisan ; 4) [& later ed. publ. by various publishing houses]
Stalin : poliittinen elämäkerta / [transl.:] Arto Häilä. - Porvoo [etc.] : WSOY, 1978. - 568 pp. - (Profiili-sarja) [&
later ed.]
Stalin : una biografía política / trad. de José Verde i Aldea. - Barcelona : Ed. de Materials. 1967. - 725 pp. - (Collec-
ció Historia immediata ; 6)
Stalin : una biografia politica / trad. di Gilberto Forti. - Milano : Longanesi, 1969. - 996 pp. - (Il cammeo : Collezio-
ne di memorie)
Staline / trad. de l'anglais par Jean-Pierre Herbert. - [Paris] : Gallimard, 1953. - 446 pp. [& later ed., publ. by various
publishing houses]
Staljin : politigka biografija. - Zagreb : Globus, 1977. - 543 pp. - (Plava biblioteka)
Den stora utmaningen : utvecklings-tendenser i sovjetisk politik. - Stockholm : Raben & Sjögren, 1962. - 105 pp.
The tragedy of Polish communism between the wars / from the French by P.K. Girling. - [London] : Socialist Labour
League, 1956. - 36 pp. [Transl. from Les Temps modernes, vol. 13]
Trotskii v izgnanii / perevod s anglijskogo N.N. Jakovleva. Posleslovie i kommentarii N.A. Vasetskogo. - Moskva
: Izd-vo Politicheskoi Literatury, 1991. - 588 pp.
Trotskij. - [1-3]. - Göteborg : Partisan-Förl., 1971-72. - 402 + 352 + 393 pp. - (Partisan ; 1-3) [& later ed.]
Trotsky. - [1-3]. - London [etc.] : Oxford Univ. Pr., 1954-63. - VIII, 540 + XII, 490 + XV, 543 pp. [ & later ed., publ.
by various publishing houses. - Vol. [1] titled: The prophet armed; vol. [2] titled: The prophet unarmed; vol. [3] titled:
The prophet outcast]
Trotsky. - [1-3]. - Milano : Longanesi, 1956-65. - 784 + 640 + 735 pp. - (Il cammeo ; 80.155.200) [& later ed.]
Trotsky / trad. de l'anglais par Paulette Péju [et al.] - 1-3. - Paris : Julliard, 1962-65. - 695 + 640 + 704 pp. - (Les
temps modernes) [& later ed., publ. by Union Générale d'Edition, Paris]
Trotsky / trad. de José Luis González. - 2. ed. - [1-3]. - México, D.F. : Ed. Era, 1968-71. - (Colección El hombre

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y su tiempo) [& later ed.]


Trotzki / aus dem Engl. übers. von Harry Maor. - 1-3. - Stuttgart : Kohlhammer, 1962-63. - 554 + 501 + 543 pp. [&
later ed.]
Den ufuldendte revolution 1917-1967 : forelæsninger holdt ved Cambridge Universitetet januar-marts 1967 / på
dansk ved Mogens Boisen. - København : Gyldendal, 1967. - 142 pp. - (Gyldendals Unglebøger ; 184)
Den ufullendte revolusjon 1917-1967 / til norsk ved Axel S. Seeberg. - [Oslo] : Cappelen, 1967. - 166 pp.
Unabhängige Kommunisten : der Briefwechsel zwischen Heinrich Brandler und Isaac Deutscher, 1949-1967 / hrsg.
von Hermann Weber. - Berlin : Colloquium-Verl., 1981. - XXIV, 292 pp. - (Internationale wissenschaftli-
che Korrespondenz zur Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung : Beiheft ; 6)
The unfinished revolution : Russia 1917-1967 ; the George Macaulay Trevelyan lectures delivered at the Univ. of
Cambridge, Jan.-March 1967. - London [etc.] : Oxford Univ. Pr., 1967. - 115 pp. - (The Trevalyan lectures
; 1967) [& later ed.]
Die ungelöste Judenfrage : zur Dialektik von Antisemitismus und Zionismus / mit einer Vorbemerkung von Tamara
Deutscher. Übers. und Nachw. von Eike Geisel und Mario Offenberg. - Berlin : Rotbuch-Verl., 1977. - 142
pp. - (Rotbuch ; 159)
Die unvollendete Revolution 1917-1967 / aus dem Engl. von Harry Maor. Anh.: Der Verlauf der Revolution 1917.
- Frankfurt a.M. : Europäische Verl.-Anst., 1967. - 188 pp. [& later ed., publ. by various publ. houses]
L'uomo socialista / [trad. dall'orig. inglese a cura di Paolo Casciola]. - Foligno : Centro Studi Pietro Tresso, 1994.
- 27 pp. - (Quaderni del Centro Studi Pietro Tresso : Serie Studi e ricerche ; 33) [On pp.21-22: Isaac Deutscher
: bibliografia italiana / a cura di Paolo Casciola]
Venäjän vallankumous jatkuu yhä : George Macaulay Trevelyan-luennot Cambridgen yliopistossa tammi-maalis-
kuulla 1967 / [transl.:] Jaakko Tervasmäki. - Porvoo [etc.], 1967. 127 pp. - (Taskutieto ; 21)
What's past is prologue. - London : Verso, 1984. - 272 pp.
Zwischen den Blöcken : der Westen und die UdSSR nach Stalin / hrsg. von Fred Halliday. - Hamburg : Junius,
1982. - 300 pp.

• Books and newspapers (co-)edited by Deutscher


The Economist (London) [ISSN 0013-0613]
The Observer (London) [ISSN 0029-7712]
Trotsky, Leon: The age of permanent revolution : a Trotsky anthology. Ed., with an introd. by Isaac Deutscher (with
the assistance of George Novack). - New York, NY : Dell, 1964. - 384 pp. [& later ed.]
Trotsky, Leon: Denkzettel : politische Erfahrungen im Zeitalter der permanenten Revolution / Leo Trotzki. Hrsg.
von Isaac Deutscher, George Novack und Helmut Dahmer. Übers. aus dem Engl. von Harry Maòr. -
Frankfurt a.M. : Suhrkamp, 1981. - 475 pp. - (Edition Suhrkamp ; 896)
Trotsky, Leon: La era de la revolución permanente : antología de escritos básicos / León Trotsky. Introd. de Isaac
Deutscher. [Trad.: Manuel Aguilar, Luis Aldama y César Nicolás Molina]. - México, D.F. : J. Pablos,
1973. - 383 pp. - (Obras de León Trotsky ; 15)
Trotsky, Leon: Den permamenta revolutionens epok / Leo Trotskij. En antologi av Isaac Deutscher. Svensk vers.:
Kenth-Åke Andersson. - Mölndal : Partisan, 1969.- 332 pp. - (Marxismens klassiker ; 3)

• Books, collections, journals, newspapers, bulletins to which Deutscher contributed

An age of conflict : readings in twentieth century European history / [ed. by] Leslie Derfler. - San Diego, Cal. :
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1990. - XII, 392 pp.
Ali, Tariq: The clash of fundamentalisms : crusades, jihads and modernity. - London [etc.] : Verso, 2003. - XXXII,
428 pp.
The American Socialist (New York, NY) <TSB 0024> [ISSN 0517-4872]
The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (Philadelphia, Pa.) [ISSN 0002-7162]

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Die Araber in Israel : Fremde im eigenen Land. - [Frankfurt a.M.] : General-Union Palästinensischer Studenten,
1969. - 16 pp.
Arbeit und Wirtschaft (Wien) [ISSN 0003-7656]
Arbeiterpolitik (Bremen) [ISSN 0171-7650]
Arthur Koestler : a collection of critical essays / ed. by Murray A. Sperber. - Englewood Cliffs, NJ : Prentice-Hall,
1977. - X, 189 pp. - (Twentieth century views) (A Spectrum book)
El asesinato de Trotsky : antes y después / Isaac Deutscher [et al.] Recopilación, introd. y notas de J. Gutiérrez
Alvarez. - [Barcelona], 1990. - 196 pp.
L'Astrolabio (Roma) [ISSN 0004-6132]
Außenpolitik (Stuttgart) [ISSN 0004-8194 ; ISSN 0587-3825]
Aux carrefours de l'histoire (Paris) [ISSN 0567-252X]
Bandiera rossa (Roma, later: Milano) <TSB 0080> [ISSN 1122-519X]
Belfagor (Firenze) [ISSN 0005-8351]
Les Cahiers du Centre d'Etudes Socialistes (Paris) [ISSN 0008-9761]
Canadian Slavic Studies (Montreal, Que.) [ISSN 0090-8290]
Comparative labor movements / John Clarke Adams [et al.] Walter Galenson, ed. - New York, NY : Prentice-Hall,
1952. - 599 pp. - (Prentice-Hall industrial relations and personnel series) [& later ed.]
Contact Books (London)
Containment and revolution / ed. by David Horowitz. - Boston, Mass. : Beacon Pr., 1968. - 252 pp. - (Studies in
imperialism and the cold war ; 1) (Beacon paperback ; 295)
Le débat sino-soviétique see Que se passe-t-il dans le mouvement communiste international?
Dissent (New York, NY) [ISSN 0012-3846]
E. H. Carr : a critical appraisal / ed. by Michael Cox. Foreword by John Carr. - Houndsmills, Basingstoke [etc.] :
Palgrave, 2000. - XXII, 352 pp.
The Economist (London) [ISSN 0013-0613]
Ekho "marselezy" : vzgliad na Velikuiu frantsuzskuiu revoliutsiiu cherez dvesti let / Erik Khobsbaum [Eric
Hobsbawm]. Nezavershennaia revoliutsiia : Rossiia 1917-1967 / Izaak Doicher [Isaac Deutscher]. -
Moskva : Inter-Verso, 1991. - 271 pp.
Encyclopaedia Britannica : a new survey of universal knowledge. - London [etc.], 1953.
Entstalinisierung : der XX. Parteitag der KPdSU und seine Folgen / Beitr. von Roy Medwedew [et al.] - Frankfurt
a.M. : Suhrkamp, 1977. - 536 pp. - (Edition Suhrkamp ; 609)
The era of violence : 1898-1945 / ed. by David Thomson. - Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Pr., 1960. - XXI, 602 pp.
- (The new Cambridge modern history ; 12)
Espresso (Roma) [ISSN 0423-4243]
L
Etudes : revue du socialisme pluraliste (Bruxelles) [ISSN 0423-5568]
L'Express (Paris) [ISSN 0014-5270]
Fjärde Internationalen (Uppsala, later: Stockholm, later: Göteborg) <TSB 0518> [ISSN 0345-3375]
Foreign Affairs (New York, NY) [ISSN 0015-7120]
Fourth International / International Executive Committee of the Fourth International (Paris) <TSB 0535> [ISSN
0429-2790]
Frankfurter Hefte (Frankfurt a.M.) [ISSN 0015-9999]
Geist und Tat (Frankfurt a.M.) [ISSN 0344-2098]
Der Gewerkschafter (Frankfurt a.M.) [ISSN 0433-8118]
Gorizont (Riga) [ISSN 0132-6252]
The Guardian (London) [ISSN 0261-3077]
The Hibbert Journal (London) [ISSN 0950-1916]
Historia (Paris) [ISSN 0018-2281]
Hommage à Natalia Sedova-Trotsky : 1882-1962. - Paris : Les Lettres Nouvelles, 1962. - 122, [10] pp.
Horizon : a review of literature and art (London) [ISSN 0262-1223]
Ikkevold og revelusjon : nye fomer for revelusjonær strategi / med bidrag av Arild Batzer [et al.] Berit Holm (red.) -
Oslo : Pax, 1972. - 148 pp. - (Pax-bøkene ; 291)

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Inostrannaja literatura (Moskva) [ISSN 0537-7307]


Intercontinental Press (New York, NY) <TSB 0657> [ISSN 0020-5303 ; ISSN 0162-5594]
International Affairs (London) [ISSN 0020-5850]
International encyclopedia of the social sciences / David L. Sills, ed. - 1-17. - London [etc.] : Macmillan [etc.], 1968.
International Journal (Toronto, Ont.) [ISSN 0020-7020]
Die Internationale (Various places) <TSB 0731> [ISSN 0535-4005]
The Jewish Quarterly (London) [ISSN 0449-010X]
The Journal of the Royal Artillery (London)
Karta : niezaleÕny miesiucznik historyczny (Warszawa) [ISSN 0867-3764]
Labour Review (Manchester, later: London) <TSB 0882> [ISSN 0456-9946 ; ISSN 0140-1270]
Laguillaumie, Pierre: Summerhill, pedagogía de la no-represión / Pierre Laguilliaumie. Acerca del hombre socialista
/ Isaac Deutscher. - Quito : Ed. Universitaria, 1974. - 79 pp. - (Colección Cuadernos culturales ; 9)
Leftist experts answer eight questions on the 22d CPSU Congress / answers given by Paul A. Baran, Lelio Basso,
Isaac Deutscher [et al.] - Washington, DC : Joint Publications Research Service, 1962. - 253 pp. - (JPRS
; 16580)
Léon, Abraham: La conception matérialiste de la question juive / Abraham Léon. Ed. rev. et préf. par Maxime
Rodinson. Préf. originale de E. Germain [i.e. Ernest Mandel]. Textes complémentaires de Isaac Deutscher
et Léon Trotsky. - Paris : Etudes et Documentation Internationales, 1968. - XLVIII, 206 pp. [& later ed.]
Les Lettres nouvelles (Paris) [ISSN 0024-1407]
Liberation (New York, NY) [ISSN 0024-189X]
Liebman, Marcel: La révolution russe : origines, étapes et signification de la victoire bolchevique / Marcel Liebman.
Préf. de Isaac Deutscher. - Verviers [etc.] : Gérard [etc.], 1967. - 443 pp. - (Marabout université ; 136)
Liebman, Marcel: The Russian revolution : the origins, phases and meaning of the Bolshevik victory / Marcel
Liebman. With a pref. by Isaac Deutscher. Transl. by Arnold J. Pomerans. - London : Cape, 1970. - 389
pp.
The Listener (London) [ISSN 0024-4392]
Literarishe bleter [also: Literarisze bleter] (Varshe [Warsaw])
The London Bulletin / Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation (Nottingham)
Lunacharskii, Anatolii Vasil'evich: Profile der Revolution / Anatoli W. Lunatscharski. Eingel. von Isaac Deutscher.
- Frankfurt a.M. : Europäische Verl.-Anst., 1968. - 130 pp. - (Res novae)
Lunacharskii, Anatolii Vasil'evich: Revolutionary silhouettes / Anatoly Vasilievich Lunacharsky. Transl. from the
Russ. and ed. by Michael Glenny. With an introd. by Isaac Deutscher. - London : Allen Lane, 1967. - 155
pp. [& American ed., publ. by Hill and Wang, New York, NY]
Lunacharskii, Anatolii Vasil'evich: Semblanzas de revolucionarios / Anatoly Vasilievich Lunacharsky. Pról. de Isaac
Deutscher. Trad. del inglés por Pedro Scaron. Notas por Michael Glenny. - Montevideo : Biblioteca de
Marcha, 1970. - 177 pp. - (Colección Testimonios ; 3)
The Manchester Guardian (Manchester) [ISSN 0307-756X]
Marxist Studies : for internal cadre education (New York, NY) <TSB 1000>
Mendel, Hersh: Erinnerungen eines jüdischen Revolutionärs / Hersch Mendel. Mit einer Einl. von Isaac Deutscher
und einem Nachw. von Jakob Moneta. - Berlin : Rotbuch-Verl., 1979. - 271 pp. [& later ed., publ. by Neuer
ISP-Verl., Köln 2004]
Mendel, Hersh: Mémoires d'un révolutionnaire juif / préf. d'Isaac Deutscher. Ann. et trad. du yiddish par Bernard
Suchecky. - Grenoble : Pr. Univ. de Grenoble, 1982. - 379 pp.
Mendel, Hersh: Memoirs of a Jewish revolutionary / with a pref. by Isaac Deutscher. - London : Pluto Pr., 1989. -
367 pp.
The Militant (New York, NY) <TSB 1026> [ISSN 0026-3885]
Le Miroir de l'histoire (Paris) [ISSN 0544-3938]
Le Monde (Paris) [ISSN 0395-2037]
Monthly Review (New York, NY) [ISSN 0027-0520]
Nasz przeglcd : organ niezalezny (Warszawa)
The Nation (New York, NY) [ISSN 0027-8378]

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New Cambridge modern history / ed. by David Thomson. - 12. - Cambridge, 1960. [& later ed.]
New Left Review (London) [ISSN 0028-6060]
The New Statesman (London) [ISSN 0028-6842 ; ISSN 0028-6834]
The New York Times Magazine (New York, NY) [ISSN 0028-7822]
News Chronicle (London)
Le Nouvel Observateur (Paris) [ISSN 0029-4713]
Nowa kultura : tygodnik spoesczno-literacki (Warszawa) [ISSN 0546-8809]
Nowa Polska (Londyn)
Nowy dziennik (Kraków)
Nuovi argomenti (Roma; later: Milano) [ISSN 0029-6295]
The Observer (London) [ISSN 0029-7712]
Palestine, the Arab-Israeli conflict / ed. by Russell Stetler. - San Francisco, Cal. : Ramparts Pr., 1972. - 297 pp.
Partisan Review (New Brunswick, NJ) [ISSN 0031-2525]
Philosophische Rundschau (Tübingen) [ISSN 0031-8159]
Una polémica internacional : debate público realizado en Paris por el Centre d'Etudes Socialistes [...] bajo la
presidencia de Iván Craipeau / Isaac Deutscher [et al.] - Buenos Aires : La Rosa blindada, 1967. - 95 pp. -
(Los tiempos nuevos)
The Political Quarterly (London) [ISSN 0032-3179]
Quaderni del Medio Oriente (Milano) [ISSN 0033-4871]
Quatrième Internationale (Paris) <TSB 1282> [ISSN 0771-0569 - ISSN 0765-1740]
Que se passe-t-il dans le mouvement communiste international? : le débat sino-soviétique / débat publique sous la
présidence d'Yvan Craipeau entre Isaac Deutscher [et al.]. - Paris, 1965. - 51 pp. - (Les cahiers du Centre
d'Etudes Socialistes ; 52/53) [On cover: Le débat sino-soviétique]
Radio Times : journal of the BBC (London) [ISSN 0033-8060]
The Reporter (New York, NY) [ISSN 1049-1600]
The Review : a quarterly for pluralist socialism (Bruxelles)
Revolution and class struggle : a reader in Marxist politics / ed. by Robin Blackburn. - Hassocks : Harvester Pr.,
1978. - 444 pp. [& other ed., publ. by Fontana, London]
Revolutionary Marxist students in Poland speak out, 1964-1968 / Jacek Kuron [et al.] - New York, NY : Merit
Publ., 1968. - 96 pp. [Containg Deutscher's famous Open letter to W. Gomulka and the CC of the Polish workers'
Party]
Revue de littérature comparée (Paris) [ISSN 0035-1466]
The Russian revolution and Bolshevik victory - why and how? / Arthur E. Adams, ed. - Boston, Mass. : Heath,
1960. - 108 pp. - (Problems in European civilization) [& later ed., publ. by Heath, Lexington, Mass.]
The Scotsman (Edinburgh etc.) [ISSN 0307-5850]
La Sinistra (Roma)
Sobre la revolución chine / Isaac Deutscher [et al.] - Medellin [etc.] : La Oveja Negra, [1971]. - 155 pp. -
(Cuadernos La Oveja negra ; 1)
The Socialist Register (London) [ISSN 0081-0606]
Socialist revolution / James O'Connor [et al.] - San Francisco, Cal. : Agenda Publ., 1970. - 143 pp.
The Soviet experience : success or failure? / ed. By Daniel R. Brower. - New York, NY : Holt, Rinehart and
Winston, 1971. - VII, 129 pp. - (European problem studies)
The Soviet political process : aims, techniques, and examples of analysis / ed. with introd. by Sidney I. Ploss. -
Waltham, Mass. : Ginn, 1970. - VIII, 304 pp.
Soviet sociology : historical antecedents and current appraisals / Alex Simirenko, ed. - Chicago, Ill. : Quadrangle
Books, 1966. - 384 pp.
Soviet Studies (Oxford; later: Glasgow) [ISSN 0038-5859]
Sozialistische Zeitung : SoZ (Köln) <TSB 1621> [ISSN 0932-8750]
The Spectator (London) [ISSN 0038-6952]
The Stalin revolution : fulfillment or betrayal of communism? / ed. with an introd. by Robert V. Daniels. - Boston,
Mass. : Heath, 1965. - XIV, 106 pp. - (Problems in European civilization)

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The Stalinist dictatorship / ed. by Chris Ward. - London [etc.] : Arnold [etc.], 1998. - XIII, 357 pp.
The Stalinist legacy : its impact on 20th-century world politics / ed. by Tariq Ali. - Harmondsworth, Middlesex [etc.]
Penguin Books, 1984. - 551 pp.
The Statesman (Calcutta) [ISSN 0972-0219]
Storia del mondo moderno / a cura di C.L. Mowat. Trad. di Luca Trevisani. - 12. - Milano : Garzanti, 1972.
Strategien der Konterrevolution : westliche Eindämmungspolitik 1917 bis Vietnam / hrsg. von David Horowitz.
Vorw. von Bertrand Russell. [Übers.: Michaele Wunderle et al.] - Darmstadt : März-Verl., 1969. - 315 pp.
[Transl. of Containment and revolution]
Studies on the Left (Madison, Wis.) [ISSN 0585-7449]
Sunday Express (London) [ISSN 0039-5196]
The Sunday Times (London) [ISSN 0956-1382]
Swiato : miesiucznik socjalistyczny (Warszawa)
Les Temps modernes (Paris) [ISSN 0040-3075]
The Times (London) [ISSN 0140-0460]
The Times Literary Supplement (London) [ISSN 0040-7895]
The Tribune (London) [ISSN 0041-2821]
Trotsky / ed. by Irving H. Smith. - Englewood Cliffs, NJ : Prentice-Hall, 1973. - VII, 181 pp. - (Great lives
observed)
Trotsky, Leon: The age of permanent revolution : a Trotsky anthology. Ed., with an introd. by Isaac Deutscher (with
the assistance of George Novack). - New York, NY : Dell, 1964. - 384 pp. [& later ed.]
Trotsky, Leon: Denkzettel : politische Erfahrungen im Zeitalter der permanenten Revolution / Leo Trotzki. Hrsg.
von Isaac Deutscher, George Novack und Helmut Dahmer. Übers. aus dem Engl. von Harry Maòr. -
Frankfurt a.M. : Suhrkamp, 1981. - 475 pp. - (Edition Suhrkamp ; 896)
Trotsky, Leon: La era de la revolución permanente : antología de escritos básicos / León Trotsky. Introd. de Isaac
Deutscher. [Trad.: Manuel Aguilar, Luis Aldama y César Nicolás Molina]. - México, D.F. : J. Pablos,
1973. - 383 pp. - (Obras de León Trotsky ; 15)
Trotsky, Leon: Scelta di scritti 1905-1940 / L.D. Trotskij. A cura di G. Novack. Con un saggio introduttivo di Isaac
Deutscher. [Trad. di Livio Maitan]. - [Roma] : Samonà e Savelli, 1968. - 197 pp. - (Cultura politica ; 18)
[Abridged version of Trotsky, Leon: The age of permanent revolution] [& later ed.]
Twentieth century interpretations of 1984 : a collection of critical essays / ed. by Samuel Hynes. - Englewood Cliffs,
NJ : Prentice-Hall, 1971. - VI, 117 pp. - (Twentieth century interpretations) (A Spectrum book)
Universities & Left Review (London) [ISSN 0502-6385]
Wehrwissenschaftliche Rundschau (Various places) [ISSN 0342-4847 - ISSN 0509-9722]
Wiadomo³ci Polskie (London)
Widnokrcg (Warszawa)
Workers' Fight (London) <TSB 1836>
World Outlook = Perspective mondiale (Paris ; later: New York, NY) <TSB 1886>
World Politics (Princeton, NJ etc.) [ISSN 0043-8871]
Young Socialist (New York, NY) <TSB 1893> [ISSN 0513-6113 - ISSN 0360-0157]
Zeszyty teoretyczno-polityczne (Warszawa) [ISSN 0044-443X]
Zionism reconsidered : the rejection of Jewish normalcy / ed. and with an introd. by Michael Selzer. - New York,
NY : Macmillan, 1970. - XXII, 259 pp.

• Books and articles by Deutscher on Trotsky and Trotskyism75

Adski temnaia noch' : glava iz knigi "Prorok v izgnanii" / Isaak Doicher. Perevod s anglijskogo Ju. Zarachovi ga [et
al.], in: Inostrannaja literatura [ISSN 0537-7307], 1989 (3), pp. 167-230

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Der bewaffnete Prophet, in: Geist und Tat [ISSN 0344-2098], 17.1962 (10), pp. 297-303
Biografija Lava Davidoviga Bronštejna-Trockog / prevela Nada Šoljan. - 1-3. - Zagreb : Liber [etc.], 1975-76 -
(Monografije-biografije ; 3)
1. NaoruÓani prorok. - 1975. - XII, 319 pp.
2. RazoruÓani prorok. - 1976. - 308 pp.
3. Prognani prorok. - 1976. - 340 pp.
Comment Staline liquida Trotsky, in: Le Miroir de l'histoire [ISSN 0544-3938] , 1965 (182), pp. 50-61
Conversation with Trygve Lie : Oslo, 28-29 Apr. 1956, in: Deutscher, Isaac.: Marxism, wars and revolutions,
London, 1984, pp. 169-177
Les derniers jours de Trotsky / trad. par Jean Cler, in: Historia [ISSN 0018-2281], 1966 (236), pp. 94-103
Einleitung / Übers. aus dem Engl. von Harry Maor, in: Trotzki, Leo: Denkzettel, Frankfurt a.M., 1981, pp. 14-41
Las ideas de León Trotsky sobre el arte y sobre el hombre, in: Trotsky, Buenos Aires, 1969, pp. 183-200
Las ideas de León Trotsky sobre el arte y sobre el hombre, in: El verdadero Trotsky, 2. ed., corr. y aumentada,
México, D.F., 1975, pp. 205-224
Introduction, in: Trotsky, Leon: The age of permanent revolution, New York, NY, 1964, pp. 13-39
Introduction, in: Trotsky, Leon: The age of permanent revolution, 2. print, New York, NY, 1970, pp. 13-39
Introduction, in: Trotsky, Leon: The age of permanent revolution, 3. print, New York, NY, 1973, pp. 13-39
Introduzione, in: Trotsky, Leone: Scritti scelti 1905-1940, Roma, 1980, pp. 5-38
Leon Trotsky as a historian and sociologist of revolution, in: Soviet sociology : historical antecedents and current
appraisals / Alex Simirenko, ed., Chicago, Ill., 1966, pp. [150]-167
Natalia Sedova - devotion to Trotsky, in: The Times [ISSN 0140-0460], 1962 (Jan.24) [Obituary]
Der nichtjüdische Jude / übers. von Eike Geisel [et al.], in: Deutscher, Isaac: Die ungelöste Judenfrage, Berlin,
1977, pp. 7-20
The non-Jewish Jew, in: Deutscher, Isaac: The non-Jewish Jew and other essays, London etc., 1968, pp. 25-41
Notes on talks with Natalia Ivanovna in Paris, in: Pratt, M.: Interpreting Trotsky's last years in exile, London, 1993
(Thesis), pp. 83-91
Roots of bureaucracy / ed. by Tamara Deutscher, in: Canadian Slavic studies = Revue canadienne d'études slaves
[ISSN 0090-8290], 3.1969 (3), pp. 453-472
The roots of bureaucracy, in: Deutscher, Isaac: Marxism in our time, London, 1972, pp. 181-208
The roots of bureaucracy, in: Deutscher, Isaac: Marxism, wars and revolutions, London, 1984, pp. 221-242
Smert' Trockogo / Isaak Doicher, in: Gorizont [ISSN 0132-6252], 1990 (3), pp. 24-28
El Stalin de Trotski, in: Deutscher, Isaac: Herejes y renegados, Barcelona, 1970, pp. 93-106
Trockij al nadir, in: Deutscher, Isaac: Ironie della storia, Milano, 1972.
Trockij e l'opposizione di sinistra in un carteggio fra Alfonso Leonetti e Isaac Deutscher, in: Belfagor [ISSN
0005-8351], 34.1979 (1), pp. 43-66
Trotskii v izgnanii / Izaak Doicher. Perevod s angliiskogo N.N. Jakovleva. Posleslovie i kommentarii N.A. Vasets-
kogo. - Moskva : Izd-vo Politicheskoj Literatury, 1991. - 588 pp.
Trotskij. - [1-3]. - Göteborg : Partisan-Förl., 1971-72 - (Partisan ; ...) [& later ed.]
[1.] Den väpnade profeten : 1879-1921 / svensk övers.: Martin Peterson. - 1971. - 402 pp. - (... ; 1)
[2.] Den avväpnade profeten : 1921-1929 / svensk övers.: Mario Grut. - 1972. - 352 pp. - (... ; 2)
[3.] Den förvisade profeten : 1929-1940 /svensk övers.: Mario Grut. - 1972. - 393 pp. - (... ; 3)
Trotskij / pres. di Giuseppe Boffa. [Trad. di Antonietta Drago]. - Nueva ed. / a cura di Attilio Chitarin. - [1-?]. -
Milano : Longanesi, 1979 [?] - (Biblioteca / Longanesi ; ...)
[1.] Il profeta armato : 1879-1921. - 1979. - XVI, 555 pp. - (... ; 13)
[Publication probably suspended with vol. 1]
Trotsky. - [1-3]. - London [etc.] : Oxford Univ. Pr., 1954-63. [Original edition]
[1.] The prophet armed : 1879-1921. - 1954. - VIII, 540 pp.
[2.] The prophet unarmed : 1921-1929. - 1959. - XII, 490 pp.
[3.] The prophet outcast : 1929-1940. - 1963. - XV, 543 pp.
Trotsky. - [1-3]. - Milano : Longanesi, 1956-65. - (Il cammeo ; ...)
[1.] Il profeta armato : 1879-1921 / trad. dall'orig. inglese di Antonietta Drago. - 1956. - 784 pp. - (... ; 80)

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[2.] Il profeta disarmato : 1921-1929 / trad. di Maria Eugenia Morin. - 1961. - 640 pp. - (... ; 155)
[3.] Il profeta esilato : 1929-1940 / trad. di Maria Eugenia Morin. - 1965. - 735 pp. - (... ; 200)
Trotsky / trad. de l'anglais par Paulette Péju [et al.]. - 1-3. - Paris : Julliard, 1962-65 - (Les temps modernes)
1. Le prophète armé : (1879-1921). - 1962. - 695 pp.
2. Le prophète désarmé : (1921-1929). - 1964. - 640 pp.
3. Le prophète hors de la loi : (l'exil). - 1965. - 704 pp.
Trotsky. - [1-3]. - New York, NY : Vintage Books, 1965. - (Vintage Russian library ; ...)
[1.] The prophet armed : 1879-1921. - VIII, 540 pp. - (... ; 746)
[2.] The prophet unarmed : 1921-1929. - XII, 490 pp. - (... ; 747)
[3.] The prophet outcast : 1929-1940. - XV, 543 pp. - (... ; 748)
Trotsky / trad. de José Luis González. - 2. ed. - [1-3]. - México, D.F. : Ed. Era, 1968-71. - (Colección El hombre
y su tiempo)
[1.] El profeta armado : 1879-1921. - 1970.
[2.] El profeta desarmado : 1921-1929. - 1968.
[3.] El profeta desterrado : 1929-1940. - 1971.
Trotsky. - [1-3]. - London [etc.] : Oxford Univ. Pr., 1970. - (Oxford paperbacks ; ...)
[1.] The prophet armed : 1879-1921. - VIII, 540 pp. - (... ; 227)
[2.] The prophet unarmed : 1921-1929. - XII, 490 pp. - (... ; 228)
[3.] The prophet outcast : 1929-1940. - XV, 543 pp. - (... ; 229)
Trotsky. - Rééd. / trad. de l'anglais par Jean Cler. - 1-6. - Paris : Union Génerale d'Ed., 1972-80. - (Collection 10/18
; ...)
1. Le prophète armé : 1879-1921. - 1. - 1972. - 441 pp. - (... ; 679)
2. Le prophète armé : 1879-1921. - 2. - 1972. - 448 pp. - (... ; 688)
3. Le prophète désarmé : 1921-1929. - 1. - 1979. - 275 pp. - (... ; 1312)
4. Le prophète désarmé : 1921-1929. - 2. - 1979. - pp.276-639 - (... ; 1313)
5. Le prophète hors de la loi : 1929-1940. - 1. - 1980. - 349 pp. - (... ; 1387)
6. Le prophète hors de la loi : 1929-1940. - 2. - 1980. - pp.350-692 - (... ; 1388)
Trotsky / trad. de José Luis González. - 3. ed. - [1-3]. - México, D.F. : Ed. Era, 1973-75. - (Colección El hombre
y su tiempo)
[1.] El profeta armado : 1879-1921. - 1973.
[2.] El profeta desarmado : 1921-1929. - 1974.
[3.] El profeta desterrado : 1929-1940. - 1975.
Trotsky / trad. de José Luis González. - 4. ed. - [1-3]. - México, D.F. : Ed. Era, 1976-79. - (Colección El hombre
y su tiempo)
[1.] El profeta armado : 1879-1921. - 1976.
[2.] El profeta desarmado : 1921-1929. - 1976.
[3.] El profeta desterrado : 1929-1940. - 1979.
Trotsky. - [1-3]. - London [etc.] : Oxford Univ. Pr., 1980. - (A galaxy book ; ...)
[1.] The prophet armed : 1879-1921. - VIII, 540 pp. - (... ; 605)
[2.] The prophet unarmed : 1921-1929. - XII, 490 pp. - (... ; 606)
[3.] The prophet outcast : 1929-1940. - XIII, 543 pp. - (... ; 607)
Trotsky. - [New ed.] - [1-3]. - London [etc.] : Verso, 2003.
[1.] The prophet armed : Trotsky, 1879-1921. - X, 497 pp.
[2.] The prophet unarmed : Trotsky, 1921-1929. - XIV, 444 pp.
[3.] The prophet outcast : Trotsky, 1929-1940. - XII, 484 pp.
Trotsky, in: International encyclopaedia of the social sciences, 16, London, 1968, pp. 155-159
Trotsky à Brest-Litovsk, in: Aux carrefours de l'histoire [ISSN 0567-252X], 1962 (55), pp. 14-33
Trotsky at his nadir, in: Deutscher, Isaac: Ironies of history, London etc., 1966, pp. 174-180
Trotsky at his nadir, in: Deutscher, Isaac: Ironies of history, Berkeley, Cal., 1971, pp. 174-180
Trotsky en 1921 : défaite dans la victoire / trad. de l'anglais par Paulette M. Péju, in: Les Temps modernes [ISSN
0040-3075], 14.1958/59 (156/157), pp. 1394-1432

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Trotsky en nuestro tiempo, in: Deutscher, Isaac: El marxismo de nuestro tiempo, México, D.F., 1975, pp. 27-50
Trotsky en su nadir / trad. de Juan Ramón Capella, in: Deutscher, Isaac: Ironías de la historia, Barcelona, 1969,
pp. 197-204
Trotsky in our time, in: Deutscher, Isaac: Marxism in our time, London, 1972, pp. 31-62
Trotsky, León, in: Enciclopedia internacional de las ciencias sociales / dir. por D.L. Sills, 2. reimpr., 10, Madrid,
1979, pp. 534-537
Trotsky on Stalin, in: Deutscher, Isaac: Herectics and renegades and other essays, London, 1955, pp. 78-90
Trotsky on Stalin, in: Deutscher, Isaac: Russia in transition, and other essays, New York, NY, 1957.
Trotsky on Stalin, in: Deutscher, Isaac: Russia in transition, and other essays, Rev. ed., New York, NY, 1960.
Trotsky on Stalin, in: Deutscher, Isaac: Herectics and renegades and other essays, Indianapolis, Ind., 1969, pp.
78-90
Trotsky on Stalin, in: Deutscher, Isaac: Herectics and renegades and other essays, Re-issued, with a new introd.
by E.H. Carr, London, 1969, pp. 78-90
Trotsky pendant la révolution d'octobre / trad. par Paulette M. Péju. - [1-3], in: Les Temps modernes [ISSN
0040-3075], 13.1957 (137/138), pp. 174-206; 13.1957 (139) : pp. 478-499; 13.1957 (140) : pp. 699-728
Trotsky's place in history, in: The Militant <TSB 1026> [ISSN 0026-3885], 1960 (March 7)
Trotzki / [aus dem Engl. übers. von Harry Maor]. - 1-3. - Stuttgart : Kohlhammer, 1962-63
1. Der bewaffnete Prophet : 1879-1921. - 1962. - 554 pp.
2. Der unbewaffnete Prophet : 1921-1929. - 1962. - 501 pp.
3. Der verstoßene Prophet : 1929-1940. - 1963. - 543 pp.
Trotzki / [aus dem Engl. übers. von Harry Maor]. - 2. Aufl.. - 1-3. - Stuttgart [etc.] : Kohlhammer, 1972 -
(Urban-Taschenbücher ; ...)
1. Der bewaffnete Prophet : 1879-1921. - 554 pp. (... ; 158)
2. Der unbewaffnete Prophet : 1921-1929. - 501 pp. (... ; 159)
3. Der verstoßene Prophet : 1929-1940. - 543 pp. (... ; 160)
Trotzkij in unserer Zeit, in: Deutscher, Isaac: Marxismus und die UdSSR, Frankfurt a.M., 1974, pp. 23-53
Les vues de Léon Trotsky sur l'art et sur l'homme / trad. de l'anglais par Pierre Frank, in: Les Lettres nouvelles
[ISSN 0024-1407], 1962 (29), pp. 83-110
Was the revolution betrayed?, in: The New Statesman [ISSN 0028-6842 - ISSN 0028-6834], n.s. 54.1957 (1380),
pp. 217-218. [Book review]
Was the revolution betrayed?, in: Deutscher, Isaac: Marxism in our time, London, 1972, pp. 265-271. [Book review]
Die Wurzeln der Bürokratie, in: Deutscher, Isaac: Marxismus und die UdSSR, Frankfurt a.M., 1974, pp. 54-80

• Books about Deutscher

Beilharz, Peter: Trotsky, Trotskyism and the theory of the transition to socialism. - Clayton, Vic. : Monash Univ.,
1983. - XI, 467, V pp. [PhD] - [On pp.335-399: History and transition : Isaac Deutscher]
Beilharz, Peter: Trotsky, Trotskyism and the transition to socialism. - London [etc.] : Croom Helm, 1987. - 197 pp.
[On pp. 150-181: History and transition : Issac Deutscher]
Flapan, Simcha: 5. Juni 1967, der arabisch-israelische Krieg : (eine Antwort an Isaac Deutscher) / ins Deutsche
übertr. von E. Rauch. - Frankfurt a.M. : Borochev-Pr., 1969. - 104 pp. - (Sozialistisch-zionistische Mono-
graphien)
Flapan, Simcha: 1967 års krig mellan Israel och arabstaterna / förord av Svante Foerster. - Stockholm : Judiska In-
formationskommittén i Sverige, 1969. - 44 pp.
Flapan, Simcha: La guerre israélo-arabe du 6 juin 1967. - [Paris] : Cercle Bernard Lazare, [ca. 1968]. - 41 pp.
Gleisner, Jeffrey Irving: Isaac Deutscher and Soviet Russia / J.I. Gleisner. - [Birmingham] : Centre for Russian and
East European Studies, 1971. - 38 pp. - (CREES discussion papers : Series RC /C, Sociology and political
science ; 5)

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Hvidsten, Thomas A.: Isaac Deutscher : a revolutionary optimist looks at Soviet history and the future of socialism.
- V, 131 pp. [Tempe, Ariz., Arizona State Univ., Thesis (M.A.), 1975]
Isaac Deutscher : the man and his work / ed. by David Horowitz. - London : Macdonald, 1971. - 254 pp. [Contents:
p.9 Introduction/D. Horowitz, p.17 Reminiscences (p.19 Armed with a pen: notes for a political portrait of Isaac
Deutscher/D. Singer, p.57 Work in progress/T. Deutscher, p.88 A working-class tribute/L. Daly), p.95 Historian and
theoretician (p.97 Isaac Deutscher as historian of the Russian revolution/M. Liebman, p.115 The theory of
revolutions/C. Hill, p.132 The dilemma of de-Stalinization: the future as history/L. Menashe), p.177 Intellectual,
Marxist, activist (p.179 That dazzling rainbow/V.G. Kiernan, p.211 Deutscher and the new left in America/S. Unger,
p.226 On the bibliography of Isaac Deutscher's writings/T. Deutscher), p.235 Selected bibliography, p.249 Index]
Kendall, Walter: Isaac Deutscher 1907-1967 : a critical appreciation on the twenty-fifth anniversary of his death /
Walter Kendall ; Alistair Mitchell and Ken Tarbuck. - Worthing, West Sussex : Marken Pr., 1992. - 25 pp.
- (A Marken Press publication) [Contents: p.1 Twenty-five years on/K. Tarbuck, p.3 Ten years without Deutscher:
an appraisal of the man and his influence/K. Tarbuck, p.11 Deutscher as an independent thinker: Deutscher's criticisms
of Trotsky, a survey and an evaluation/A. Mitchell, p.19 Deutscher as a prophet/W. Kendall, p.23 Tamara Deutscher
(1913-1990)/K. Tarbuck]
Mandell, William: A reply to Isaac Deutscher "On socialist man". - New York, NY : Political Affairs, 1967. - 36
pp. - (A Political Affairs reprint) [Originally publ. in Political Affairs, 46.1967 (12)]
Marcus, Shmuel: Marxism & a free society : an anarchist reply to Isaac Deutscher's address on "Socialist man" [...]
- Sanday : Simian Publ., 1976. - 16 pp.
Nelson, Brian Robert: Isaac Deutscher and contemporary Marxism. - VIII, 224 pp. [Riverside, Cal., Univ. of California,
Diss. (PhD), 1972. - Contents: p.9 The dilemma of contemporary Marxism, an historical analysis, p.45 Deutscher on
Leninism, p.66 Deutscher on Stalinism, p.121 Deutscher on de-Stalinization, p.189 Isaac Deutscher and contemporary
Marxism]
Syré, Ludger: Isaac Deutscher - Marxist, Publizist, Historiker : sein Leben und Werk 1907-1967. - Hamburg :
Junius, 1984. - 422 pp. - (Reihe Forschungsberichte) [=Author's diss. (PhD), Tübingen, Eberhard-Karls-Univ.,
1983. - Contents: p.11 Einleitung, p.21 Isaac Deutschers persönlicher und politischer Werdegang in Polen
(1907-1939), p.63 Isaac Deutschers Publizistik im Zweiten Weltkrieg (1939-1945), p.159 Isaac Deutschers Publizistik
im ersten Nachkriegsjahrzehnt (1946-1956), p.241 Isaac Deutschers Publizistik seit der Tauwetterperiode (1957-1967),
p.336 Schluß: Deutscher, der unvollendete Prophet, p.339 Anmerkungen, p.400 Bibliographie, p.417
Personenregister]
Tilitz, Thomas: Isaac Deutscher : a singular voice on the critical issues of the Russian revolution and Soviet power.
- New York, NY : Queens College, 1999. - 120 pp. [New York, NY, Queens College, Thesis (M.A.), 1999]
Veen, Hermien van: Isaac Deutscher papers, period 1929-1967 (-1972). - 21 Kb (9 pp.), URL:
http://www.iisg.nl/archives/en/files/d/10748983full.php [Description of the Isaac Deutscher papers deposited at the
IISG, Amsterdam. Updated June 8, 2005]
Wang Fanxi: Isaac Deutscher, Chen Duxiu, and the Chinese Trotskyists : a comment on Deutscher's The prophet
outcast / Wang Fanxi. Ed. by Gregor Benton. - Leeds : Dept. of East Asian Studies, Univ. of Leeds, 1993.
- 20 pp. - (Leeds East Asia papers ; 23)

• Articles about Deutscher

[Anon.]: Deutscher, Isaac (Peregrine), 1907-1967, in: Contemporary authors : New revision series [ISSN 0275-
7176] 4.1981, pp. 194-195. [Biographical sketch]
[Anon.]: Deutscher, Isaac (Peregrine), 1907-1967, in: Contemporary authors : first revision [ISSN 0196-0245] 5/8
(1969) : p. 301. [Biographical sketch]
[Anon.]: Isaac Deutscher - polnisch-britischer Journalist und Schriftsteller, in: Internationales biographisches
Archiv : IBA [ISSN 0020-9457], 1967 (42). [Biographical sketch]
[Anon.]: Deutscher, Isaac, in: World authors 1950-1970 / ed. by John Wakeman, New York, NY, 1975, pp. 383-
385. [Biographical sketch. On pp. 383-384: autobiographical notes by I. Deutscher]
[Anon.]: Isaac Deutscher, 60, is dead - an authority on communism, in: The New York Times [ISSN 0362-4331]
1967, Aug. 20, p. 88. [Obituary]

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[Anon.]: [Obituary], in: International Correspondence / International Committee of the Fourth International <TSB
0688> 1.1967 (12), pp. 161-162
[Anon.]: Isaac Deutscher, in: Obituaries from The Times [ISSN 0951-2284] 1961/70 (1975), p. 211. [Obituary. Repr.
from The Times, 1967 (Aug. 21)]
[Anon.]: Mr Isaac Deutscher : leading scholar of revolutionary Marxism, in: The Times [ISSN 0140-0460] 1967
(Aug. 21), p. 8. [Obituary]
Ali, Tariq: Isaac Deutscher - ein marxistischer Historiker im Kalten Krieg, in: Was tun : sozialistische Zeitung <TSB
1818> [ISSN 0043-0404], 10.1977 (187), pp. 13-14. [Originally publ. in Engl. in: Socialist Challenge, 1977
(Aug. 11)] [Biographical sketch]
Anderson, Perry: The legacy of Isaac Deutscher, in: Anderson, Perry: A zone of engagement, London [etc.], 1992,
pp. 56-75
Anderson, Perry: El legado de Isaac Deutscher, in: Anderson, Perry: Campos de batalla / Perre Anderson, Barcelo-
na, 1998
Aron, Raymond: Un croisé de l'anti-anti-communisme, in: Preuves [ISSN 0555-0939] 1954 (Mai), pp. 66-70
Aron, Raymond: La Russie après Staline, in: Preuves [ISSN 0555-0939], 1953 (Oct.), pp. 5-13
Ash, Bill: The old "new" anti-left : is Isaac Deutscher a Marxist?, in: Progressive Labor [ISSN 0033-0795], 1967
(Febr./March), pp. 59-63
Beilharz, Peter: Isaac Deutscher : history and necessity, in: History of Political Thought [ISSN 0143-781X], 7.1986
(2), pp. 375-384
Bergman, Stefan: Deutscher, Izaak, in: Sownik biograficzny dziaaczy polskiego ruchu robotniczego / red.: Feliks
Tych, 1, A-D, supl. do pierwszego wyd., Warszawa, 1985, pp. 51-52. [Biographical sketch]
Bergmann, Theodor: Isaac Deutscher - ein jüdischer Ketzer im Kommunismus, in: Utopie kreativ [ISSN 0863-
4890], 1998 (97/98), pp. 95-107
Bergmann, Theodor: Isaac Deutscher - Internationalist im Zeitalter der Nationalstaaten, in: Langer Marsch : Zeitung
für eine neue Linke, 1979 (45/46), pp. 26-28
Bergmann, Theodor: Rosa Luxemburg and Isaac Deutscher : two Jewish communist heretics, in: New Interventions
[ISSN 1464-6757] 9.1999 (3), pp. 30-38
Black, Robert: Deutscher and Dutt against the Chinese revolution, in: The Newsletter / Central Committee of the
Socialist labour League <TSB 1102>, 1967 (Febr. 4)
Black, Robert: The ironies of Isaac Deutscher, in: Fourth International : a journal of international Marxism <TSB
0536> [ISSN 0015-9204], 4.1967 (1), pp.18-31
Cannon, James P.: Trotsky or Deutscher? : on the new revisionism and its theoretical source, in: Fourth Interna-
tional <TSB 0532>, 15.1954 (Winter), pp. 9-16
Carr, Edward Hallett: [Obituary], in: Carr, Edward Hallett: 1917 : illusioni e realtà della revoluzione russa / trad.:
Luca Baranelli, Torino, 1970, pp. 209-211
Cliff, Tony: The end of the road? : Deutscher's capitulation to Stalinism, in: International Socialism <TSB 0709>
[ISSN 0020-8736], 1963/64 (15), pp. 10-20
Coser, Lewis Alfred: But on other terms, in: Dissent [ISSN 0012-3846], 1954 (Winter), pp. 234-241
Cox, Michael: E. H. Carr and Isaac Deutscher - a very 'special relationship', in: E. H. Carr : a critical appraisal /
ed. by Michael Cox, Houndsmills, Basingstoke [etc.], 2000, pp. 125-144. [ Based on author's contribution to
an international conference on E.H. Carr, held in July 1997 at the University of Wales at Gregynog. Also publ. in
Newsletter / London Socialist Historians Group, 2001 (12)]
Daly, Lawrence: A working-class tribute, in: Isaac Deutscher : the man and his work / ed. by David Horowitz ,
London, 1971, pp. 88-93
Deutscher, Tamara: The education of a Jewish child, in: Deutscher, Isaac: The non-Jewish Jew and other essays
/ ed. with an introd. by Tamara Deutscher, London [etc.], 1968, pp. 1-24
Deutscher, Tamara: L'educazione di un fanciullo ebreo, in: Deutscher, Isaac: L'ebreo non ebreo e altri saggi / a
cura di Tamara Deutscher. Trad. di Francesco Franconeri, [Milano], 1969, pp. 13-36
Deutscher, Tamara: Isaac Deutscher (1907-1967), in: Deutscher, Isaac: L'ebreo non ebreo e altri saggi / a cura di
Tamara Deutscher. Trad. di Francesco Franconeri, [Milano], 1969, pp. 5-9. [Biographical sketch]
Deutscher, Tamara: On the bibliography of Isaac Deutscher's writings, in: Canadian Slavic Studies = Revue cana-

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dienne d'études slaves [ISSN 0090- 8290] 3.1969 (3), pp. 473-479
Deutscher, Tamara: On the bibliography of Isaac Deutscher's writings, in: Isaac Deutscher : the man and his work
/ ed. by David Horowitz, London, 1971, pp. 226-234
Deutscher, Tamara: Work in progress, in: Isaac Deutscher : the man and his work / ed. by David Horowitz , London,
1971, pp. 57-87
Dowson, Ross: Socialist writer historian dies, in: Workers' Vanguard <TSB 1874> [ISSN 0509-1454], 1967 (133).
[Obituary]
Foa, Lisa: Isaac Deutscher, storico della rivoluzione sovietica, in: Rivista di storia contemporanea [ISSN 0391-
4240], 1972 (1), pp. 31-49
Frank, Pierre: Isaac Deutscher, in: Quatrième Internationale <TSB 1282> [ISSN 0771-0569 - ISSN 0765-1740]
25.1967 (32), pp. 62-65. [Obituary]
Frank, Pierre: Isaac Deutscher, in: World Outlook = Perspective mondiale <TSB 1886> 5.1967 (30), pp. 755-756.
[Obituary]
Geisel, Eike: Die gegenwärtige Vergangenheit : zur Aktualität von Isaac Deutschers Schriften zur jüdischen Frage
/ Eike Geisel ; Mario Offenberg, in: Deutscher, Isaac: Die ungelöste Judenfrage : zur Dialektik von Antise-
mitismus und Zionismus / mit einer Vorbemerkung von Tamara Deutscher. Übers. und Nachw. von Eike
Geisel und Mario Offenberg, Berlin, 1977, pp. 105-142
Goldsmith, Samuel Joseph: Isaac Deutscher : the original sovietologist / S.J. Goldsmith, in: Goldsmith, Samuel
Joseph: Twenty 20th century Jews / S.J. Goldsmith. Drawings by Juliet Pannett , New York, NY, 1962, pp.
37-43 [& later ed., publ. by Books for Libraries, Freeport, NY]
Gordon, Sam: Deutschers Meinung über die Trotzkisten / J.B. Stuart [i.e. Sam Gordon], in: Die Internationale
<TSB 0731> [ISSN 0535-4005], 10.1965 (1), pp. 51-63
Gordon, Sam: Deutscher's view of the Trotskyists / J.B. Stuart [i.e. Sam Gordon]. - [1-2], in: World Outlook =
Perspective mondiale <TSB 1886> 2.1964 (16), pp. 26-29; 2.1964 (17), pp. 32-37
Graham, Marcus: Marxism & a free society : an anarchist reply to Isaac Deutscher's address on "Socialist man" with
particular reference to the minutes of the First International and the sabotaging of the Hague Congress by
the Marx clique. - Sanday : Simian Publ., 1976. - 16 pp.
Grossman, Ronald Philip: Between Zion and utopia / Ronald P. Grossman, in: Canadian Slavic Studies = Revue
canadienne d'études slaves [ISSN 0090-8290], 3.1969 (3), pp. 490-493
Grötzinger, Ralf: Isaac Deutscher (1907-1967), in: Inprekorr : internationale Pressekorrespondenz der IV. Interna-
tionale <TSB 0654> [ISSN 0256-4416], 1988 (199), pp. 23-25 [Biographical sketch, on the occasion of the 20th
anniversary of Deutscher's death]
Haas, Leonhard: Trotzki: Seher oder Blinder? : Stimmen über Leiba Bronstein und Deutschers Werk über ihn, in:
Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Geschichte [ISSN 0036-7834] 15.1965, pp. 467-506. [Review of reviews]
Haas, Leonhard: Zur Neuauflage von Deutschers Stalin-Biographie : Gedanken, Kritiken, Hinweise, in: Schweize-
rische Zeitschrift für Geschichte [ISSN 0036-7834] 13.1963, pp. 220-241
Hill, Christopher: The theory of revolutions, in: Isaac Deutscher : the man and his work / ed. by David Horowitz ,
London, 1971, pp. 115-131
Howe, Irving: Isaac Deutscher : freedom and the ash can of history, in: Howe, Irving: Steady work : essays in the
politics of democratic radicalism, 1953-1966, New York, NY, 1966.
Isaac Deutscher in memoriam : symposium, in: Canadian Slavic Studies = Revue canadienne d'études slaves [ISSN
0090-8290] 3.1969 (3), pp. 447-493. [See also under Deutscher, Tamara; Ronald Philip Grossman; Louis Menashe]
Jacobson, Julius: Isaac Deutscher : the anatomy of an apologist, [1-2.], in: New Politics [ISSN 0028-6494], 3.1964
(4), pp. 95-121; 5.1966 (2), pp. 47-85
Jacobson, Julius: Isaac Deutscher : the anatomy of an apologist, in: Soviet communism and the socialist vision / ed.
by Julius Jacobson, New Brunswick, NJ, 1972, pp. 86-162
Jones, Mike: Isaac Deutscher : Ketzer des Kommunismus und Trotzkismus / Mike Jones ; Alistair Mitchell, in:
Ketzer im Kommunismus : Alternativen zum Stalinismus / Theodor Bergmann ; Mario Keßler (Hg.) ,
Mainz, 1993, pp. 286-305. [Contents: p.286 Politische Aktivitäten im Vorkriegspolen, p.288 Die Emigration, p.290
Die Schriften, p.295 Deutschers Differenzen mit Trotzki, p.304 Schluß]
Jünke, Christoph: Die Geister der Vergangenheit : vor dreißig Jahren starb der Marxist Isaak Deutscher, in: Analyse

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& Kritik : AK ; Zeitung für linke Debatte und Praxis [ISSN 0945-1153], N.F. 27.1997 (406), p. 3.
[Biographical sketch]
Kaye, Harvey J.: A note in memory od Isaac Deutscher, historian and socialist intellectual (1907-1967), in: Kaye,
Harvey J.: Why do ruling classes fear history / with a foreword by Daniel Singer , Basingstoke [etc.], 1996.
Kehrnon, Michel: Apropos d'une source de Deutscher, in: Cahiers Léon Trotsky <TSB 0277> [ISSN 0181-0790]
1979 (2), pp. 89-98
Kendall, Walter: Deutscher as a prophet, in: Kendall, Walter: Isaac Deutscher 1907-1967 : a critical appreciation
on the twenty-fifth anniversary of his death / Walter Kandall ; Alistair Mitchell and Ken Tarbuck ,
Worthing, West Sussex, 1992, pp. 19-22
Kendall, Walter: Isaac Deutscher as a prophet, in: New Interventions [ISSN 1464-6757] 11.2004 (4), pp.15-18
Kennan, George Frost: Kritik an Deutscher, in: Ost-Probleme [ISSN 0472-2027] , 5.1953 (39), pp. 1668-1671
Kiernan, V.G.: That dazzling rainbow, in: Isaac Deutscher : the man and his work / ed. by David Horowitz, London,
1971, pp. 179-210
Labedz, Leopold: Deutscher as historian and prophet, in: Survey [ISSN 0039-6192], 1962 (41), pp. 120-144. [For
a sequel see author's Isaac Deutscher's "Stalin" (1979)]
Labedz, Leopold: Isaac Deutscher / [Leopold Labedz], in: Survey [ISSN 0039-6192], 30.1988 (1/2=128/129 = The
use and abuse of Sovietology), pp. 33-93. [Pt. 1 titled Historian & prophet (1962), pt. 2 titled Deutscher's "Stalin"
(1978). Title according to table of contents: Isaac Deutscher : historian, prophet, biographer. Author only mentioned
on cover]
Labedz, Leopold: Isaac Deutscher storiografo e profeta, in: Tempo presente [ISSN 0040-3059] 7.1962, pp. 291-310
Labedz, Leopold: Isaac Deutscher's "Stalin" : an unpublished critique, in: Encounter [ISSN 0013-7073], 52.1979
(1), pp. 65-82. [Probably a sequel to author's Deutscher as historian and prophet (1962)]
Landmann, Michael: Antwort an Isaak [sic] Deutscher, in: Landmann, Michael: Das Israelpseudos der Pseudo-
linken / Michael Landmann ; Schlomo Deregh ; S. Barel, Berlin, 1967
Liebman, Marcel: Isaac Deutscher as historian of the Russian revolution, in: Isaac Deutscher : the man and his work
/ ed. by David Horowitz, London, 1971, pp. 97-114
Mandel, Ernest: Mandel on Deutscher, in: Socialist Challenge <TSB 1501> [ISSN 0142-6575], 1977 (11), p. 14.
[Tribute written on the ocassion of the 10th anniversary of Deutscher's death]
Mandell, William; A reply to Isaac Deutscher, in: Political Affairs [ISSN 0032-3128], 46.1967 (12), pp. 22-36
Meghnagi, David: Isaac Deutscher : un ebreo di confine, in: Ebraismo e cultura europea del '900 / cur.: M.
Brunazzi [et al.], Firenze, 1990, pp. 113-122
Menashe, Louis: The dilemma of de-stalinization : the future as history, in: Isaac Deutscher : the man and his work
/ ed. by David Horowitz, London, 1971, pp. 132-175
Menashe, Louis: Isaac Deutscher, socialist historian : a brief appreciation, in: Canadian Slavic Studies = Revue ca-
nadienne d'études slaves [ISSN 0090-8290] 3.1969 (3), pp. 447-452
Meyer, Alfred George: [Obituary] / Alfred G. Meyer, in: Slavic Review [ISSN 0037-6779] 26.1967 (4), pp. 714-715
Miliband, Ralph: Deutscher, Isaac / R.M. [i.e. Ralph Miliband], in: A dictionary of Marxist thought / ed. by Tom
Bottomore [et al.] - Oxford, 1983, pp. 119-120 [& later ed.] [Biographical sketch]
Mitchell, Alistair: Deutscher as an independant thinker: Deutscher's criticisms of Trotsky; a survey and an
evaluation, in: Kendall, Walter: Isaac Deutscher 1907-1967 : a critical appreciation on the twenty-fifth
anniversary of his death / Walter Kandall ; Alistair Mitchell and Ken Tarbuck, Worthing, West Sussex,
1992, pp. 11-18
Muraskin, Bennett: Jewish humanists remembered : Isaac Deutscher (1907-1967), in: Outlook / Canadian Jewish
Outlook Society [ISSN 0834-0242], 2001 (Jan./Febr.)
Novack, George: From Lenin to Castro : the role of the individual in history making, in: Novack, George: Under-
standing history : Marxist essays, New York, NY, 1972, pp. 71-81
Novack, George: Importance of the individual in history making / William F. Warde [i.e. George Novack], in:
International Socialist Review <TSB 0715> [ISSN 0020-8744], 26.1965 (1), pp. 3-7
Novack, George: Isaac Deutscher / William F. Warde [i.e. George Novack], in: The Militant <TSB 1026>, 31.1967
(Sept. 11), p.8. [Obituary]
Pablo, Michel: Isaac Deutscher and Soviet democracy / Michel Raptis [Pablo], in: Raptis, Michel: Socialism, demo-

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cracy and self-management : political essays / transl. by Marie-Jo Serrié and Richard Sissons, New York,
NY, 1980, pp. 86-96 [& other ed.]
Pachter, Henry: And can there be peace / Henri Rabasseire [i.e. Henry Pachter], in: Dissent [ISSN 0012-3846], 1954
(Summer), pp.242-247
Pouillon, Jean: Staline - Catoblépas au Phénix?, in: Les Temps modernes [ISSN 0040-3075], 1954 (103), pp. 2232-
2247
Pratt, Malcolm: The tragedy ofthe outcast : Isaac Deutscher's interpretation of Trotsky's years in exile, in: Pratt,
Malcolm: Interpreting Trotsky's years in exile, London, Univ. of Greenwich, M.A. thesis, 1993, pp. 11-41
Rosdolsky, Roman: Die Rolle des Zufalls und der "großen Männer" in der Geschichte, in: Kritik : Zeitschrift für
sozialistische Diskussion [ISSN 0170-4761], 1977 (14), pp. 67-96
Rosenberg, Justin: Isaac Deutscher and the lost history of international relations, in: New Left Review [ISSN 0028-
6060], 1996 (215), pp. 3-15
Rosenberg, Justin: Isaac Deutscher y la historia perdida de las relaciones internacionales, in: Viento sur : por una
izquierda alternativa [ISSN 1133-5637], 1996 (Dec.)
Schlesinger, Rudolf: British studies on the history of the Soviet Union, in: Science and Society [ISSN 0036-8237],
1961 (Winter), pp. 1-19
Sedgwick, Peter: Tragedy of the tragedian : an appreciation of Isaac Deutscher, in: International Socialism <TSB
0709> [ISSN 0020-8736], 1967/68 (31), pp. 10-17
Shachtman, Max: Deutscher's Stalin, in: The fate of the Russian revolution / ed. by Sean Matgamna, London, 1998,
pp. 515-530
Shachtman, Max: Issac Deutscher's Stalin, in: Workers' Liberty <TSB 1844> [ISSN 0960-8753], 1989 (11), pp.
26-33. [Repr. from The New International, 16.1950 (Sept./Oct.)]
Singer, Daniel: Armed with a pen : notes for a political portrait of Isaac Deutscher, in: Isaac Deutscher : the man
and his work / ed. by David Horowitz, London, 1971, pp. 19-56
Smith, Cyril: The practice and theory of Isaac Deutscher, in: Labour Review <TSB 0882> [ISSN 0456-9946 ; ISSN
0140-1270], 1.1977 (6), pp. 325-347
Sochor, Lubomir: The importance of Isaac Deutscher's work as seen by a Czechoslovak intellectual, in: Interconti-
nental Press <TSB 0657>) [ISSN 0020-5303 ; ISSN 0162-5594], 6.1968 (29), pp. 738-742
Sochor, Lubomir: Isaac Deutscher, in: Literární listy : týdenik Svazu fS, 1.1968(1), p.10
Suny, Ronald Gregor: Making sense of Stalin : some recent and not-so-recent biographies, in: Russian History
[ISSN 0094-288X], 16.1989 (2/4), pp. 435-448
Tarbuck, Ken: 10 years without Deutscher, in: International <TSB 0673> [ISSN 0020-5788 ; ISSN 0308-3217],
4.1977 (1)
Tarbuck, Ken: Ten years without Deutscher : an appraisal of the man and his influence, in: Kendall, Walter: Isaac
Deutscher 1907-1967 : a critical appreciation on the twenty-fifth anniversary of his death / Walter Kendall
; Alistair Mitchell and Ken Tarbuck, Worthing, West Sussex, 1992, pp. 3-10
Tresse, Pierre: Russia : methods of analysis, in: Dissent [ISSN 0012-3846], 1954 (Autumn), pp. 399-405
Unger, Steven: Deutscher and the New Left in America, in: Isaac Deutscher : the man and his work / ed. by David
Horowitz, London, 1971, pp. 211-225
Van Heijenoort, Jean: Correction of errors in writings about Trotsky, in: Van Heijenoort, Jean: With Trotsky in exile
: from Prinkipo to Coyoacán, Cambridge, Mass. [etc.], 1978, pp. 151-160. [On pp. 153-155 correction of
errors occuring in the Trotsky trilogy]
Willen, Paul: What manner of chance in Russia, in: Dissent [ISSN 0012-3846], 1955 (Winter), pp. 71-75

• Reviews of Deutscher's Trotsky trilogy


[Anon.]: [Review], in: International Relations [ISSN 0047-1178], 1.1954 (1), pp. 30-31
[Anon.]: [Review] / K. S. P., in: The Jewish Quarterly Review [ISSN 0021-6682], 17.1955
[Anon.]: [Review], in: Military Affairs [ISSN 0026-3931], 18.1954 (3), pp. 158-159

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[Anon.]: [Review] / E.B., in: Il Politico [ISSN 0032-325X], 29.1964 (2), pp. 534-535
[Anon.]: [Review] Attualità di Trotzky, in: Corrispondenza socialista [ISSN 0010-9304], 6.1965 (8/9), pp. 471-472
Anagnine, Eugenio: [Review] / E. Anagnine, in: Critica sociale [ISSN 0011-1538], 55.1963 (22), pp. 600-604
Aronson, Ronald: [Review] The impermanent revolution, in: The Nation [ISSN 0027-8378], 280.2005 (March 14)
Ascherson, Neal: [Review] Victory in defeat, in: London Review of Books [ISSN 0260-9592], 26.2004 (23), p. 3
Ballarino, Tito: [Review], in: Il Politico [ISSN 0032-325X], 21.1956 (3), pp. 661-665
Barghoorn, Frederick Charles: [Review] / F. Barghoorn, in: The American Slavic and East European Review [ISSN
1049-7544], 19.1960 (1), pp. 105-106
Barghoorn, Frederick Charles: [Review] A mover and shaker / Frederick C. Barghoorn, in: The New York Times
[ISSN 0362-4331], 1954 (March 7), p. BR7
Baylen, Joseph Oscar: [Review] / Joseph O. Baylen, in: Mississippi Quarterly [ISSN 0026-637X], 13.1960 (1), pp.
46-48
Beloff, Max: [Review] A revolutionary dynamo, in: History today [ISSN 0018-2753], 4.1954 (3), pp. 207-209
Birchall, Ian: [Review] All along the watchtower, in: Socialist Review <TSB 1521> [ISSN 0141-2442], 2004 (Jan.)
Bolsover, George Henry: [Review] / G.H. Bolsover, in: History [ISSN 0018-2648], n.s. 46.1961 (156), p. 169
Breitman, George: [Review] Exchange of views on Deutscher biography / George Breitman and Joseph Hansen,
in: International Socialist Review < TSB 0715> [ISSN 0020-8744] 25.1964 (3), pp. 66, 90, 95
Brinkley, George A.: [Review article] The Russian revolution and its heroes, in: The Review of Politics [ISSN
0034-6705], 27.1965 (2), pp. 262-268
Brinton, Crane: [Review] Trotsky : from power to exile, in: The Nation [ISSN 0027-8378], 189.1959 (15)
Burnham, James: [Review], in: The Russian Review [ISSN 0036-0341], 14.1955 (1), pp. 151-152
Caratan, Branko: [Review] Deutscherov Trocki, in: Politigka misao [ISSN 0032-2341], 13.1976 (2/3), pp. 145-158
Carr, Edward Hallett: [Review] The tragedy of Trotsky, in: Carr, Edward H.: 1917: before and after, London, 1969,
pp. 139-166. [Reviews originally publ. in The Times Literary Supplement at various dates]
Carr, Edward Hallett: [Review] The tragedy of Trotsky, in: In: Carr, Edward H.: The October revolution, London,
1969, pp. 139-166. [Reviews originally publ. in The Times Literary Supplement at various dates]
Carr, Edward Hallett: [Review] The tragedy of Trotsky, in: Carr, Edward H.: The October revolution, New York,
NY, 1971, pp. 139-166. [Reviews originally publ. in The Times Literary Supplement at various dates]
Carrère d'Encausse, Hélène: [Review] / H. Carrère d'Encausse, in: Revue française de science politique [ISSN
0035-2950], 13.1963 (4), pp. 1056-1059
Cherniavskii, Georgii Iosifovich: [Review] Strasti vokrug proroka / G. Cherniavskii, in: Novyj mir [ISSN 0130-
7673] 1992 (6=806), pp. 249-252
Christophersen, Jens Andreas: [Review] / Jens A. Christophersen, in: Historisk tidsskrift [ISSN 0018-263X] 43.
1964 (3/4), pp. 319-324
Curtiss, John Shelton: [Review], in: The South Atlantic Quarterly [ISSN 0038-2876], 54.1955 (2), pp. 271-272
Davidson, Neil: [Review] The prophet, his biographer and the watchtower, in: International Socialism <TSB 0709>
[ISSN 0020-8736], 2004 (104), pp .95-118
Degras, Jane: [Review], in: Soviet Studies [ISSN 0038-5859], 6.1954/55 (1), pp. 53-56
Eastman, Max: [Review], in: The Russian Review [ISSN 0036-0341], 23.1964 (2), pp. 182-184
Fischer, Louis: [Review] Trotsky, Stalin, and Deutscher, in: The Virginia Quarterly Review [ISSN 0042-675X],
40.1964 (2), pp. 307-313
Fitzsimons, Matthew Anthony: [Review article] The tragedy of Trotsky : a tactician who never penetrated reality
/ M.A. Fitzsimons, in: The Commonweal [ISSN 0010-3330], 79.1964 (Febr.), pp. 598-600
Footman, David: [Review], in: Political Studies [ISSN 0032-3217], 8.1960 (1), pp. 92-93
Frank, Pierre: [Review], in: Fourth International / International Executive Committee of the Fourth International
<TSB 0535> [ISSN 0429-2790], 1959 (7), pp. 79-80
Frank, Pierre: [Review], in: Quatrième Internationale <TSB 1282> [ISSN 0771-0569 - ISSN 0765-1740], 18.1960
(8), pp. 52-55
Frank, Pierre: [Review] Une biographie de Trotsky, in: Quatrième Internationale <TSB 1282> [ISSN 0771-0569
- ISSN 0765-1740], 12.1954 (3/5), pp. 33-44
Frank, Pierre: [Review] Encore une fois sur la biographie de L. Trotsky par I. Deutscher, in: Quatrième Internatio-

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nale <TSB 1282> [ISSN 0771-0569 - ISSN 0765-1740], 22.1964 (23), pp. 58-64
Futrell, Michel: [Review]], in: History [ISSN 0018-2648], 49.1964 (165), pp. 107-108
Geltman, Emanuel: [Review] A political biography, in: Dissent [ISSN 0012-3846], 1.1954 (4), pp. 408-409
Gretton, George: [Review] Not to the swift, in: History Today [ISSN 0018-2753], 9.1959, p. 843
Grulow, Leo: [Review], in: Political Science Quarterly [ISSN 0032-3195], 69.1954 (4), pp. 627-629
Guattari, Félix: [Review article] La coupure léniniste, in: Critique [ISSN 0011-1600], 1971 (289), pp. 563-576
Hansen, Joseph: [Review] La biographie de Trotsky d'Isaac Deutscher / J. Hansen, in: Quatrième Internationale
<TSB 1282> [ISSN 0771-0569 - ISSN 0765-1740], 22.1964 (21), pp. 42-52
Hansen, Joseph: [Review] Deutscher on Trotsky, in: International Socialist Review <TSB 0715> [ISSN 0020-8744],
25.1964 (1), pp. 11-16
Hansen, Joseph: [Review] Deutscher's life of Leon Trotsky, in: International Socialist Review <TSB 0715> [ISSN
0020-8744], 21.1960 (1), pp. 24-26
Hill, Christopher: [Review], in: Soviet Studies [ISSN 0038-5859], 11.1959/60 (3), pp. 317-323
Hitchens, Christopher: [Review] The old man, in: The Atlantic Monthly [ISSN 0004-6795 - ISSN 0276-9077 - ISSN
1072-7825], 294.2004 (1), pp. 152-158
Hook, Sidney: [Review] The cunning of history, in: The New Leader [ISSN 0028-6044], 47.1964 (May 11), pp.
15-18. [Comment: A correction appeared in ibid., May 25, p.35, a response by M. Nomad in ibid., June 22, p.32-33
and a reply by S. Hook in ibid., p.33. Repr. in author's Philosophy and public policy, Carbondale, Ill., 1980]
Horecky, Paul Louis: [Review] / Paul L. Horecky, in: The Journal of Politics [ISSN 0022-3816], 16.1954 (4), pp.
754-758
Howe, Irving: [Review] The life of Trotsky, in: The New Republic [ISSN 0028-6583], 150.1964 (March 21), pp.
20-23
Humphrey, Gay: [Review], in: Journal of International Affairs [ISSN 0022-197X], 8.1954 (2), pp. 226
James, Cyril Lionel Robert: [Review] Indomitable rebel / C.L.R. James, in: New Society [ISSN 0028-6664], 1963
(61), p. 26
Kadt, Jacques de: [Review] Trotsky door Deutschers bril : voortgezette verteckning / J. de Kadt, in: Socialisme en
democratie [ISSN 0037-8135], 1961 (Dec.), pp. 858-861
Kadt, Jacques de: [Review] Een verdediging van het "edel-bolsjewisme" : Isaac Deutschers "Trotsky" / J. de Kadt,
in: Socialisme en democratie [ISSN 0037-8135], 1955 (March), pp. 154-161
Keep, John Leslie Howard: [Review] / J.L.H. Keep, in: The English Historical Review [ISSN 0013-8266], 76.1961
(301), pp. 756-757
Labedz, Leopold: [Review] The end of Trotsky, in: The Guardian [ISSN 0261-3077], 1963 (Oct.25), p. 6
Lichtheim, George: [Review] The armed intellectual, in: Partisan Review [ISSN 0031-2525], 27.1960 (1), pp.
155-160
Liebman, Marcel: [Review] Retour à Trotsky : à propos de la biographie de Trotsky par Isaac Deutscher, in: Les
Temps modernes [ISSN 0040-3075], 20.1965 (230), pp. 132-152
Litvinoff, Emanuel: [Review] Trotsky and the death of the revolution, in: The Guardian [ISSN 0261-3077], 1959
(Oct.9), p. 6
Macintyre, Alasdair: [Review] Trotsky in exile, in: Encounter [ISSN 0013-7073], 21.1963 (4), pp. 73-78
McNeal, Robert Hatch: [Review] / Robert H. McNeal, in: The Canadian Historical Review [ISSN 0008-3755],
41.1960 (2), pp. 166-167
McNeal, Robert Hatch: [Review] / Robert H. McNeal, in: The Canadian Historical Review [ISSN 0008-3755],
46.1965 (1), pp. 79-81
Meyer, Alfred George: [Review] / Alfred G. Meyer, in: The American Political Science Review [ISSN 0003-0554],
54.1960 (2), pp. 509-510
Mosse, Werner Eugen Emil: [Review] / W.E. Mosse, in: History [ISSN 0018-2648], n.s. 41.1956, pp. 268-269
Oberländer, Erwin: [Review], in: Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas [ISSN 0021-4019], N.F. 13.1965 (2), pp.
276-277
Parry, Albert: [Review], in: The American Slavic and East European Review [ISSN 1049-7544], 13.1954 (4), pp.
597-599
Petersen, William: [Review], in: The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science [ISSN

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Pierce, Richard Austin: [Review] / Richard A. Pierce, in: International Journal [ISSN 0020-7020], 20.1964/65 (2),
pp. 268-269
Pipes, Richard: [Review], in: The American Historical Review [ISSN 0002-8762], 65.1959/60 (4), p. 904
Radkey, Oliver Henry: [Review], in: The American Historical Review [ISSN 0002-8762], 60.1954 (1), pp. 105-107
Rahv, Philip: [Review] The great outsider, in: Rahv, Philip: Essays on literature and politics, 1932-1972, Boston,
1978, pp. 335-340. [Repr. from The New York Review of Books, 1964]
Reynolds, Philip Alan: [Review] / P.A. Reynolds, in: Political Studies [ISSN 0032-3217], 2.1955 (2), pp. 187-189
Rieber, Alfred Joseph: [Review] / Alfred J. Rieber, in: The Journal of Modern History [ISSN 0022-2801], 37.1965
(1), pp. 118-119
Rizzi, Bruno: [Review] Vittoria nella sconfitta, in: Il Mulino [ISSN 0027-3120], 14.1965, pp. 300-315
Schapiro, Leonard: [Review], in: Political Science Quarterly [ISSN 0032-3195], 75.1960 (3), pp. 429-431
Sethe, Paul: [Review] Höhe und Sturz eines Revolutionärs : Leo Trotzkis dramatisches Leben, glanzvoll geschildert,
in: Die Welt [ISSN 0173-8437] 1963 (March 1) : p.5
Shachtman, Max: [Review] The end of socialism : a review of Isaac Deutscher ; an analysis of Deutscher's
biography of Trotsky. - [1-3], in: The New International <TSB 1089>, 20.1954 (2=164) : pp.67-83;
20.1954 (3=165) : pp.145-158; 20.1954 (4=166) : pp.170-183
Shachtman, Max: [Review] Personal and political dimensions, in: Dissent [ISSN 0012-3846], 11.1964 (Summer),
pp. 356-363
Shin, Dale: [Review] Made for revolution, in: New Socialist [ISSN 1488-2698], 2005 (51), pp. 38-39
Shub, David: [Review] León Trotsky : el profeta de la mala causa, in: Estudios sobre el comunismo [ISSN
0014-1550], 3.1958 (8), pp. 124-126
Shub, David: [Review] Prophet of a false cause, in: The New Leader <New York, NY> [ISSN 0028-6044], 37.1954
(May 3), pp. 22-24
Simpson, George Wilfrid: [Review] / Geo. W. Simpson, in: International Journal [ISSN 0020-7020], 10.1954/55
(1), pp. 139-140
Skilling, Harold Gordon: [Review] / H. Gordon Skilling, in: International Journal [ISSN 0020-7020] 15.1959/60
(1) : p.158-160
Spina, Enrichetta: [Review] Trotsky, in: Nuova rivista storica [ISSN 0029-6236], 44.1960 (1), pp. 161-170
Stone, I.: [Review], in: The Western Political Quarterly [ISSN 0043-4078], 7.1954, pp. 496-497
Strachey, John: [Review] Trotsky, in: Strachey, John: The strangled cry and other unparliamentary papers, Lon-
don, 1962, pp. 190-195
Taylor, Alan John Percivale: [Review] Trotsky / A.J.P. Taylor, in: Taylor, A.J.P.: From the Boer War to the Cold
War, London, 1995, pp. 509-510. [Pt. 1 of the review was originally publ. in: The New Statesman and Nation, 1954
(Febr. 20), pt. 2 in: The New Statesman, 1959 (Sept. 26), pt. 3 in: The Observer, 1963 (Oct. 27)]
Thulstrup, Åke: [Review], in: Historisk tidskrift [ISSN 0345-469X], 84.1964 (2), pp.228-231
Tompkins, Stuart Ramsay: [Review] / Stuart R. Tompkins, in: The Slavonic and East European Review [ISSN
0037-6895], 39.1960/61 (92), pp. 367-368
Tompkins, Stuart Ramsay: [Review] / Stuart R. Tompkins, in: The Slavonic and East European Review [ISSN
0037-6895], 43.1964/65 (100), pp. 230-232
Treadgold, Donald Warren: [Review] / Donald W. Treadgold, in: Journal of Central European Affairs [ISSN
0885-2472], 15.1955/56 (4), pp. 418-419
Ulam, Adam Bruno: [Review] / Adam B. Ulam, in: The Russian Review [ISSN 0036-0341], 19.1960 (3), pp. 287-
289
Vestuti, Guido: [Review] A proposito di una recente biografia di Trotsky, in: Il Politico [ISSN 0032-325X],
24.1959 (4), pp.758-763
Von Laue, Theodore Herman: [Review] / Theodore H. von Laue, in: The American Historical Review [ISSN 0002-
8762] 70.1964/65 (1) : p.160-162
Weber, Hermann: [Review article], in: Militärgeschichtliche Mitteilungen [ISSN 0026-3826], 18.1975 ( 2), pp.
165-167
Wolfe, Bertram David: [Review] / Bertram D. Wolfe, in: The Annals of the American Academy of Political and

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Social Science [ISSN 0002-7162], 294.1954, p. 222


Wolfe, Bertram David: [Review] Caught in a web of his own weaving / Bertram D. Wolfe, in: The New York Times
[ISSN 0362-4331], 1959 (Sept.27), p. BR6
Woolf, Leonard: [Review], in: The Political Quarterly [ISSN 0032-3179], 25.1954 (2), pp. 179-180
Young, James Douglas: [Review article] / James D. Young, in: The Political Quarterly [ISSN 0032-3179], 35.1964
(2), pp. 233-235

Note: More informations about Deutscher are likely to be found in some of the books, pamphlets,
university works, articles, etc. listed in the relevant chapter of our Trotsky Bibliography, 3. ed.,
München [etc.], 1999, e.g. in chapter 9. Deutscher's work has also been discussed in the bio-
bibliographical miscellany about Pierre Broué, published within the frameworkof our Lubitz
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Note on archives
In 1977, ten years after his death, Isaac Deutscher's considerable archive was acquired by the Inter-
national Institute of Social History (IISH) (Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis, IISG),
Amsterdam, The Netherlands. There are no restrictions with regard to the consultation of this collection
(7.35 m). An inventory list of the Isaac Deutscher Papers, period 1929-1967 (-1972) in English
language, prepared by Hermien van Veen in 1998 and updated in June 2005, is available on-line:
http://www.iisg.nl/archives/en/files/d/10748983full.php
The Deutscher papers are comprising chiefly of:
— his correspondence from 1947 to 1967, partly arranged alphabetically within various spans of time and
partly by addressees (altogether 120 folders). The correspondence contains letters received from and sent
to e.g. Ernest Mandel, Bertrand Russell, Edward Hallett Carr, Daniel Guérin, Heinrich Brandler, Natalia
Sedova, Alfred Rosmer, Tamara (his wife) and Martin Charles Deutscher (his son), as well as Deutscher's
correspondence with his publishers (e.g. with Oxford University Press) and literary agents. This section
also contains correspondence related to the Trotsky trilogy, accounts and documents related to his work
as correspondent for The Economist, The Observer and The Reporter, including some typescripts of
articles;
— the original manuscripts, drafts, notes and fragments relating to his books Stalin, Trotsky, Ironies of
history, The unfinished revolution, Marxism in our time, The Non-Jewish Jew and other essays, etc. (alto-
gether some 30 portfolios);
— typescripts of miscellaneous writings including public lectures and broadcasts (altogether 6 archive
boxes);
— various personal documents (autobiographical items, financial documents, calendars, notebooks, etc.)
(altogether 10 folders and portfolios);
— manuscripts by others (6 folders);
— documents relating to various conferences and teach-ins as well as to the International War Crimes
Tribunal (Russell Tribunal), 1966-67;
— a 'documentation', chiefly book review cuttings from newspapers and journals relating to his published
works (including reviews published after Deutscher’s death), obituaries and similar articles.
It should be mentioned that Deutscher's correspondence with H. Brandler has been published; that also
applies to 21 letters by Leon Trotsky to various of his followers (dating from 1931 to 1938) forming part
of the Deutscher collection.
Many other archivalia (letters, etc.) relating to Deutscher are to be found also in the archival collections
of some Trotskyists mentioned and described within the Research facilities : Archives paragraph of our
Lubitz TrotskyanaNet.
Note: The photograph on p. 1 was taken from Spartacist : Deutsche Ausgabe, New York, NY, 1996 (17), p. 28, © Oxford Uni-
versity Press. The picture on p. 12 is a detail from a drawing by Juliet Pannett, originally published inGoldsmith, Samuel Joseph:
Twenty 20th century Jews, Freeport, NY, 1962, p.[36]
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