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Isaac Deutscher Papers 1915-1990 (-2006)1929-1967 International Institute of Social History Cruquiusweg 31 1019 AT Amsterdam The Netherlands hdl:10622/ARCH00462 © IISH Amsterdam 2021 Isaac Deutscher Papers 1915-1990 (-2006)1929-1967 Table of contents Isaac Deutscher Papers................................................................................................................... 4 Context............................................................................................................................................... 4 Content and Structure........................................................................................................................4 Access and Use.................................................................................................................................5 ............................................................................................................................................................6 CORRESPONDENCE.................................................................................................................6 Correspondence of Isaac Deutscher. Alphabetically.......................................................... 6 Correspondence of Tamara Deutscher............................................................................ 10 Correspondence with A. Balabanoff, D. Bigelajzen, H. Brandler, Edward H. Carr, M. Eastman, Daniel Guérin, Ernest Mandel, Roman Rosdolsky, Alfred Rosmer, Bertrand Russell en N. Sedova........................................................................................................10 Other correspondence....................................................................................................... 11 MANUSCRIPTS........................................................................................................................ 12 MANUSCRIPTS BY DEUTSCHER.................................................................................. 12 Stalin: A Political biography. 1949.........................................................................12 Russia after Stalin. 1953.......................................................................................13 The Trotsky Trilogy. 1954-1963.............................................................................13 The Prophet Unarmed, Trotsky: 1921-1929..........................................................14 The Prophet Outcast, Trotsky: 1929-1940............................................................ 14 The Great Contest - Russia and the West. 1960..................................................15 Ironies of History: Essays on Contemporary Communism. 1966.......................... 16 The Unfinished Revolution - Russia 1917-1967. (Trevelyan Lectures delivered at Cambridge, January-March, 1967). 1967...............................................................16 The Non-Jewish Jew and other Essays. (Posthumous). Edited, with an introduction, by Tamara Deutscher. 1968...............................................................16 Russia, China and the West: A Contemporary Chronicle, 1953-1966. (Posthumous). Edited by F. Halliday. 1970.............................................................16 Lenin's Childhood. (Posthumous). Edited, with an introduction, by Tamara Deutscher. 1970......................................................................................................17 Marxism in our time. Essays. (Posthumous). Edited by Tamara Deutscher. 1972........................................................................................................................ 17 Miscellaneous writings, lectures and broadcasts.................................................. 17 Notebooks..............................................................................................................17 MANUSCRIPTS BY OTHERS..........................................................................................18 PERSONAL DOCUMENTS...................................................................................................... 18 OTHER DOCUMENTS............................................................................................................. 19 DOCUMENTATION................................................................................................................... 19 Accrual 2014...............................................................................................................................20 Isaac Deutscher................................................................................................................. 20 Personal documents and finances......................................................................... 20 Writing and publishing............................................................................................ 20 Correspondence with publishers. Alphabetically......................................20 Books, articles and broadcasts................................................................21 Notes and documentation........................................................................22 Documents by others..............................................................................................23 Tamara Deutscher..............................................................................................................24 Correspondence......................................................................................................24 Personal documents and finances......................................................................... 26 Writings and film..................................................................................................... 27 Publishing................................................................................................................27 The Isaac Deutscher Memorial Price..................................................................... 28 Martin Deutscher................................................................................................................28 International Institute of Social History 2 Isaac Deutscher Papers 1915-1990 (-2006)1929-1967 Image and sound material.................................................................................................29 Documentation................................................................................................................... 29 International Institute of Social History 3 Isaac Deutscher Papers 1915-1990 (-2006)1929-1967 Isaac Deutscher Papers Collection ID ARCH00462 Creator Deutscher, Isaac Other Creator(s) Deutscher, Tamara Period 1915-1990 (-2006)1929-1967 Period (bulk) 1929-1967 Extent 14.35 meters archival material, 24 photographs 14.35 Meters 24 Photographs Language list English Language of Material English Context Biographical Note Born in Chrzanów, Galicia, Austria-Hungary 1907, died in Rome 1967; journalist, Marxist historian; moved to Cracow in 1923, to Warsaw in 1925; joined the Komunistyczna Partia Polski (KPP) in 1926, member of the Polish section of the International Left Opposition from 1929; expelled from the party in 1932; became supporter of Trotsky and followed the `entrance-tactic' by joining the Polska Partia Socjalistyczna (PPS) 1935-1937; edited and contributed to many periodicals (most of them illegal and irregular); emigrated to Great Britain in 1939; regularly contributed political commentary on developments in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe to The Economist, The Observer, the Tribune and other periodicals; at the same time engaged in historical research; published biographies of Trotsky and Stalin and wrote on cold war issues. Tamara Deutscher-Lebenhaft; born in in Łódź, Poland, 1913, died in London 1990; writer and editor; married Isaac Deutscher 1947; see obituaries in The New York Times and in Revolutionary History. Acquisition Papers purchased by the IISH from Tamara Deutscher in 1977, see Annual Report IISH 1977, p. 15. Contract 07.05.1977. With an accrual in 2014. Content and Structure Content Correspondence, mainly from the early fifties with political friends and left-wing historians like Edward H. Carr, Daniel Guérin, Ernest Mandel, Roman Rosdolsky, Alfred Rosmer, Bertrand Russell and others; correspondence with his publishers; 23 prewar letters from Leon Trotsky to Trotskyists (all published); original drafts etc., sometimes heavily edited, of his publications `Stalin, `Russia after Stalin', `The Trotsky Trilogy', `Heretics and Renegades', `Russia in Transition', `The great Contest', `The Age of Permanent Revolution', `Ironies of History', `The unfinished Revolution', `The Non-Jewish Jew', `Russia, China and the West', `Lenin's Childhood', `Marxism in our Time'; drafts of miscellaneous writings: articles, lectures and broadcasts; file on the International War Crimes Tribunal in Stockholm 1967; press clippings of most of his articles from 1944 onwards. Accrual 2014: Correspondence; personal and financial documents of Isaac and Tamara Deutscher; books, articles and broadcasts; notes; documents concerning writings, film and publishing of Tamara Deutscher; documents belonging to Martin Deutscher; image and sound material; documentation. Arrangement International Institute of Social History 4 Isaac Deutscher Papers 1915-1990 (-2006)1929-1967 The IISH acquired the Isaac Deutscher Archive in 1977; for the convenience of visitors of the Institute letters from Heinrich Brandler, M. Eastman, Roman Rosdolsky, Alfred Rosmer and others were removed from the alphabetical files, where they