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Ironies of History:

Essays on Contemporary Communism
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Oxford U.P., 1966 - Communism - 278 pages

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This book was the last collection of essays I had by Isaac Deutscher, a Marxist historian whose most famous work was a three-volume biography of Leon Trotsky. I especially liked the piece "Khrushchev ... Read full review

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Contents

Khrushchev on Stalin
3
The Meaning of deStalinization
18
Russia in Transition
27
Copyright

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Ironies of history: essays on contemporary communism
Ironies of history: essays on contemporary communism
Isaac Deutscher
Snippet view - 1971
Ironies of history: essays on contemporary communism
Ironies of history: essays on contemporary communism
Isaac Deutscher
Snippet view - 1966
Ironies of history: essays on contemporary communism
Ironies of history: essays on contemporary communism
Isaac Deutscher
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TitleIronies of History: Essays on Contemporary Communism
AuthorIsaac Deutscher
PublisherOxford U.P., 1966
Original fromthe University of Michigan
Digitized29 Jul 2009
Length278 pages
  
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