Volume 43, Number 6 · April 4, 1996
Rise & Fall of a Revolutionary
By Theodore H. Draper
Trotsky: The Eternal Revolutionary
by Dmitri Volkogonov, translated and edited by Harold Shukman
Free Press, 524 pp., $32.50
Isaac Deutscher's three volumes on the life of Trotsky were entitled The Prophet Armed, The Prophet Disarmed, and The Prophet Outcast. To Deutscher, whose last volume appeared thirty-three years ago, Trotsky was still a 'prophet.' To Dmitri Volkogonov, his latest biographer, Trotsky was no prophet, and, in fact, Volkogonov suggests he was wrong more often than right. To most people, Trotsky has become an increasingly dim memory, and his prophecies, whatever they were, belong to a distant age.
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