Quotes About Isaac Deutscher

It is necessary to distinguish the nationalism of the oppressing nations from the nationalism of the oppressed

The biographical interest of this now little-known essay lies in the fact that in it he expounded broadly a view of the organization and the discipline of the party identical with that which was later to become the hall-mark of Bolshevism, and which he himself then met with acute and venomous criticism.28 The

But on 1 March 1881 the conspirators succeeded in assassinating the Tsar. To

Leon Trotsky, Stalin's worst enemy, was far and away his most influential 20th-century interpreter, shaping the views of a generation of historians, from Isaac Deutscher onward.