Heretics and renegades, and other essays

by Isaac Deutscher

Book Overview

Essays, Russian & Soviet Studies, Eastern European Studies This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0224616315
• ISBN13: 9780224616317
• Release Date: January 1969
• Publisher: Jonathan Cape
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Saddening and necessary

Saddening to see how Deutscher's perfectly reasonable hopes for the development of a genuine Socialist consciousness in post-Stalin Russia were dashed in the end. However, to explain what went astray, you had better begin with Deutscher than to seek such explanation in the kind of hysterical, cheap anti-communist ranting whose choicest specimens (Koestler, Orwell's 1984 et coetera)he analyzes at the two first essays of this superb collection.