biography
pronunciation:
[doycher]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1907–67)
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| biography:
| Marxist historian of Russia, born in Kraków, S Poland. A journalist, he joined the Communist Party in 1926 and edited Communist periodicals until his expulsion in 1932 for leading an anti-Stalinist opposition. He went to London in 1939, and worked on the editorial staff of The Economist (1942–9) and The Observer (1942–7). His great biography of Trotsky appeared in three volumes: The Prophet Armed (1954), The Prophet Unarmed (1959), and The Prophet Outcast (1963). A visiting professor at many US universities in the 1960s, he was prominent in the ‘Teach-In’ movement against the US's undeclared war in Vietnam. |
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