The Prophet Armed
Trotsky: 1879-1921, Volume 1

Deutscher, Isaac
Publisher:  Vintage Books, New York, USA
Year Published:  1965   First Published:  1954
Pages:  540pp  
Resource Type:  Book
Cx Number:  CX7587

Volume 1 of Deutscher's three-volume biography of Leon Trotsky, covering the period to 1921.

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Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments

1. Home and School
2. In Search of an Ideal
3. At the Door of History
4. An Intellectual Partnership
5. Trotsky in 1905
6. 'Permanent Revolution'
7. The Doldrums: 1907 - 1914
8. War and the International
9. Trotsky in the October Revolution
10. The People's Commisar
11. The Drama of Brest Litovsk
12. Arming the Republic
13. Revolution and Conquest
- Note on Trotsky's Military Writings
14. Defeat in Victory

Bibliography
Index