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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 equated with his fall.

~ Isaac Deutscher

Isaac Deutscher Failure Fall Life Power Rise Success

For nearly thirty years the powerful propaganda machines of Stalinism worked furiously to expunge Trotsky's name from the annals of the revolution, or to leave it there only as the synonym for arch-traitor. To the present Soviet generation, and not only to it, Trotsky's life-story is already like an ancient Egyptian sepulchre which is known to have contained the body of a great man and the record, engraved in gold, of his deeds; but tomb-robbers and ghouls have plundered and left it so empty and desolate that no trace is found of the record it once contained. The work of the tomb-robbers has, in this present instance, been so persistent that it has strongly affected the views even of independent Western historians and scholars.

~ Isaac Deutscher

Isaac Deutscher Leon Trotsky Lies Propaganda Soviet Union Stalinism

By offering the educated a semblance of freedom he made the denial of real freedom even more painful and humiliating. The intelligentsia sought to avenge their betrayed hopes; the Tsar strove to tame their restive spirit; and, so, semi-liberal reforms gave way to repression and repression bred rebellion.

~ Isaac Deutscher

Isaac Deutscher Civil Liberties Education Intelligentsia Liberalism Liberty Russia Tsar Of Russia

The intoxication with the theatre, with its limelight, costumes, and masks, and with its passions and conflicts, accords well with the adolescence of a man who was to act his role with an intense sense of the dramatic, and of whose life it might indeed be said that its very shape had the power and pattern of classical tragedy.

~ Isaac Deutscher

Isaac Deutscher Biography Drama Leon Trotsky Theatre

The local liberal press, much molested by the censorship, had its courageous and skilful writers such as VM Doroshevich, the master of that semi-literary and semi-journalistic essay at which Bronstein himself was one day to excel.

~ Isaac Deutscher

Isaac Deutscher Censorship Journalism Leon Trotsky Liberalism Vlas Doroshevich

Wherever he went he left footprints so firm that nobody could later efface or blur them, not even he himself, when on rare occasions he was tempted to do so.

~ Isaac Deutscher

Isaac Deutscher Biography Leon Trotsky Life
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