New Left Review I/227, January-February 1998
Donald Sassoon
Fin-de-Siècle Socialism: The United, Modest Left
In his biography of Stalin, Isaac Deutscher asserted that the historian, inevitably, believes in inevitability: ‘The historian deals with fixed and irreversible patterns of events: all weapons have already been fired; all wills have been spent; all decisions have been achieved; and what is irreversible has assumed the aspect of the inevitable’. [*] This is the text of the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Lecture, given on 2 December 1997.
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