The Prophet Outcast: Trotsky 1929–1940
Isaac Deutscher (Estate)Pub date 1st January 1963
Original publisher Oxford University Press (UK)
Publisher (UK) Verso Books
International publishers Record (Brazil), LOM (Chile), Central Compilation & Translation Press (China), Window of Times (Korea)
Volume III
Few political figures of the twentieth century have aroused as much controversy as the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky. Trotsky’s extraordinary life and extensive writings have left an indelible mark on revolutionary conscience, yet there was a danger that his name would disappear from history.
This third volume of the trilogy, first published in 1963, is a self-contained narrative of Trotsky’s years in exile and of his murder in Mexico in 1940.
Deutscher’s masterful account of the period, and of the ideological controversies ranging throughout it, forms a background against which, as he says, ‘the protagonist’s character reveals itself, while he is moving towards catastrophe.’
