Isaac Deutscher

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Isaac Deutscher
Born3 April 1907
Chrzanów, Galicia, Austria-Hungary
Died19 August 1967
Rome, Italy
NationalityPolish

Isaac Deutscher (3 April 1907 – 19 August 1967) was a Polish historian. Despite his support for Trotsky, he acknowledged many of Stalin's achievements after his death.[1]

References

  1. “After three decades, the face of the Soviet Union has been completely transformed. What’s essential to Stalinism’s historical actions is this: it found a Russia that worked the land with wooden plows and left it as the owner of the atomic bomb. It elevated Russia to the rank of the second industrial power in the world, and it’s not merely a question of material progress and organization. A similar result could not have been achieved without a great cultural revolution in which an entire country has been sent to school to receive an extensive education.”

    Domenico Losurdo (2019). Stalin: The History and Critique of a Black Legend: 'The Turning Point in the Historical Depiction of Stalin' (p. 4). [PDF] [LG]