New Left Review I/2, March-April 1960

John McLeish

Trotsky: The Final Act

The Prophet Unarmed: Trotsky 1921–29. Isaac Deutscher. Oxford University Press, 1959. 38/-.

this is a unique work of brilliant scholarship, alive with human interest and of profound political significance. It carries forward the story of the Russian Revolution, and of Trotsky, from the moment when he descended from the armoured train as the architect of victory, to the point where he is deposited on a boat at Odessa—an unwilling and protesting exile from the first socialist state which he had helped to create and which he would never see again.

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