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"Isaac Deutscher's celebrated biographies of Stalin and Trotsky had always been conceived as a part of a larger project eventually culminating in a study of Lenin's life and politics. The three works would have constituted, he hoped, "a triptych of some artistic unity." But it was not to be; by the time of his sudden death in 1967, Deutscher had only managed to complete the first chapter, this book, which covers Lenin's family background, birth and early years in the backwater town of Simbirsk up to the execution of his brother, Alexander Ulyanov, a traumatic but formative event. Based on a lifetime of background research, including access to the closed section of Trotsky's archives, Lenin's Childhood gave, at the time of its posthumous publication, a novel interpretation of the earliest influences in Lenin's personality and thinking. Most of all, it offers a glimpse into a work unfinished, a work which would have striven save Lenin from fanatical anti-revolutionary condemnation, and, perhaps more importantly, from uncritical communist beatification"--
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction to the Anniversary Edition -
Gonzalo PozoIntroduction -
Tamara DeutscherLenin’s Childhood
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Isaac Deutscher was born near Krakow in 1907. First a poet and literary journalist, he joined the outlawed Polish Communist Party in 1926, where he was active until his expulsion in 1932. He moved to London in 1939 just before the outbreak of World War II to embark on a successful journalistic career. In 1946 he decided to become a freelance historian, writing many books, of which the most important is perhaps his Trotsky trilogy.Gonzalo Pozo teaches Global Political Economy at the Department of Economic History and International Relations in Stockholm University. He is the author of a critical introduction to Isaac Deutscher's unfinished biography of Lenin (Lenin's Childhood, Verso, 2024), and his essay on Deutscher's wartime life in London appeared in the London Review of Books.
