Ironies of History
Essays on Contemporary Communism
Deutscher, Issac
Publisher: Ramparts Press, Berkley, USA
Year Published: 1966 First Published: 1957
Pages: 278pp ISBN: 0-87867-013-0
Resource Type: Book
Cx Number: CX7481
A series of essays by Deutscher examinig the evolution of the so-called Communist world after Stalin.
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Table of Contents:
Preface
PART ONE: REVISIONS AND DIVISIONS
Khrushchev on Stalin
The Meaning of de-Stalinization
Russian in Transition
Four Decades of the Revolution
Khrushchev at Home
Three Currents in Communism
Maoism-its Origin and Outlook
The Failure of Khrushchevism
PART TWO: TWENTY YEARS OF COLD WAR
Vietnam in Perspective
PART THREE: FROM A BIOGRAPHER'S SKETCHBOOK
The Moral Dilemmas of Lenin
Trotsky at his Nadir
An Obituary on Stalin
Warsaw's Verdict on Rokossovsky
PART FOUR: HISTORICAL AND LITERARY ESSAYS
Between Past and Future
The Mensheviks
Russia and the West
The Irony of History in Stalinism
Steps to a new Russian Literature
Pasternak and the Calendar of the Revolution
Two Autobiographies