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Lenin's Childhood
Series: The Lenin Quintet, 1924-2024
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Isaac Deutscher was planning to write a biography of Lenin after he completed the Trotsky trilogy. However, he changed his mind and wrote one of Stalin instead. This was necessary, he argued, to show that Stalin is an objective fact. He won the faction fight. We...
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Isaac Deutscher was planning to write a biography of Lenin after he completed the Trotsky trilogy. However, he changed his mind and wrote one of Stalin instead. This was necessary, he argued, to show that Stalin is an objective fact. He won the faction fight. We lost. He can't be ignored. The tome on Stalin duly appeared and was respectfully received.
Then he began work on Lenin. It was intended to counter the deadening hagiographies produced by Moscow and others. His Lenin would not be a godhead but a revolutionary who committed mistakes like his colleagues. Deutscher died, completing only a single chapter, which is this book. A taste of what we lost forever.
Series: The Lenin Quintet, 1924-2024
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781804292778
Publisher: Verso Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 23 January 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Verso Books
Contributors:
- Introduction by Gonzalo Pozo
- Introduction by Tamara Deutscher
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 8.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 100g
Pages: 112
About the Author
Isaac Deutscher was born in 1907 near Krakow and joined the Polish Communist Party, from which he was expelled in 1932. He then moved to London where he died in 1967.
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