The Prophet Outcast: Trotsky: 1929-1940
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Book: Fair
Jacket: Damaged
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Condition remarks: large pieces missing from the front panel and spine of the dj; some foxing on the book block, otherwise binding remains tight, clean text.
In the final chapter of one of the twentieth century's most tragic political lives, The Prophet Outcast chronicles the last eleven years of Leon Trotsky's existence — years defined by exile, persecution, and an unbroken will to resist the Stalinist machine that hunted him across continents. Isaac Deutscher traces Trotsky's desperate odyssey from his expulsion from the Soviet Union in 1929, through his sojourns in Turkey, France, and Norway, to his final refuge in Mexico, where an assassin's ice pick would end the life of the revolution's greatest mind in 1940. With the precision of a historian and the narrative drive of a master biographer, Deutscher presents a portrait of a man who refused to be silenced even as the world closed in around him. The concluding volume of Deutscher's monumental trilogy — following The Prophet Armed and The Prophet Unarmed — this work stands as a landmark of twentieth-century political biography, widely regarded as one of the finest biographies ever written in the English language. Deutscher argues compellingly that Trotsky was not merely a defeated rival of Stalin, but a towering intellectual whose ideas on permanent revolution, democratic socialism, and the betrayal of Marxism retain a haunting relevance. Written with elegant prose and forensic scholarship, this biography leaves the reader to ponder an unanswerable question: what might history have looked like had the outcast prevailed?
Author: Isaac Deutscher
Format: Hardback
Published: 1963, Oxford University Press
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Damaged
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Condition remarks: large pieces missing from the front panel and spine of the dj; some foxing on the book block, otherwise binding remains tight, clean text.
In the final chapter of one of the twentieth century's most tragic political lives, The Prophet Outcast chronicles the last eleven years of Leon Trotsky's existence — years defined by exile, persecution, and an unbroken will to resist the Stalinist machine that hunted him across continents. Isaac Deutscher traces Trotsky's desperate odyssey from his expulsion from the Soviet Union in 1929, through his sojourns in Turkey, France, and Norway, to his final refuge in Mexico, where an assassin's ice pick would end the life of the revolution's greatest mind in 1940. With the precision of a historian and the narrative drive of a master biographer, Deutscher presents a portrait of a man who refused to be silenced even as the world closed in around him. The concluding volume of Deutscher's monumental trilogy — following The Prophet Armed and The Prophet Unarmed — this work stands as a landmark of twentieth-century political biography, widely regarded as one of the finest biographies ever written in the English language. Deutscher argues compellingly that Trotsky was not merely a defeated rival of Stalin, but a towering intellectual whose ideas on permanent revolution, democratic socialism, and the betrayal of Marxism retain a haunting relevance. Written with elegant prose and forensic scholarship, this biography leaves the reader to ponder an unanswerable question: what might history have looked like had the outcast prevailed?