Quotes by Isaac Deutscher, The Prophet Armed: Trotsky, 1879-1921

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I do not think that a man's rise to power is necessarily the climax of his life or that his loss of office should be equ — Isaac Deutscher, The Prophet Armed: Trotsky, 1879-1921
By offering the educated a semblance of freedom he made the denial of real freedom even more painful and humiliating. Th — Isaac Deutscher, The Prophet Armed: Trotsky, 1879-1921
The intoxication with the theatre, with its limelight, costumes, and masks, and with its passions and conflicts, accords — Isaac Deutscher, The Prophet Armed: Trotsky, 1879-1921
The local liberal press, much molested by the censorship, had its courageous and skilful writers such as VM Doroshevich, — Isaac Deutscher, The Prophet Armed: Trotsky, 1879-1921
Wherever he went he left footprints so firm that nobody could later efface or blur them, not even he himself, when on ra — Isaac Deutscher, The Prophet Armed: Trotsky, 1879-1921