Isaac Deutscher Quotes

#1. Wherever he went he left footprints so firm that nobody could later efface or blur them, not even he himself, when on rare occasions he was tempted to do so.

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#2. But on 1 March 1881 the conspirators succeeded in assassinating the Tsar. To

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#3. The hunger for land: that great hunger which for more than half a century was to shake Russia and to throw her into a fever, body and mind.

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#4. The gentry's jurisdiction over the peasantry was restored. The universities were closed to the children of the lower classes; the radical literary periodicals were banned; the nation, including the intelligentsia, was to be forced back into mute submission. Revolutionary

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#5. Trees have roots, Jews have legs.

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#6. The idea of a revolution through the people was gradually replaced by that of a conspiracy to be planned and carried out by a small and determined minority from the intelligentsia.

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#7. The local liberal press, much molested by the censorship, had its courageous and skilful writers such as VM Doroshevich, the master of that semi-literary and semi-journalistic essay at which Bronstein himself was one day to excel.

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#8. I do not think that a man's rise to power is necessarily the climax of his life or that his loss of office should be equated with his fall.

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#9. It is necessary to distinguish the nationalism of the oppressing nations from the nationalism of the oppressed

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#10. The works of John Stuart Mill, Herbert Spencer, and Karl Marx had been forbidden. Students' libraries and clubs had been closed; and informers had been planted in the lecture halls. Entry fees had been raised fivefold to bar academic education to children of poor parents.

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