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...Stalin the Chinese seem to have sacrificed this considerable latent support, and imposed a historical confusion on the dispute. Stalin's 30-year career of meddling in the affairs of Chinese Communism won him the enmity, not the admiration, of Mao Tse Tung. As for de-Stalinization, Isaac Deutscher is not the only student of Communist affairs who regards Mao's abortive effort to "let a hundred flowers bloom" as a more sincere attempt to liberalize Chinese society than Khrushchev's own halting program in Russia...
...Deutscher makes another significant point, most recently reiterated in the New Statesman of April 17: "In foreign policy [Khrushchev] continues, amid changed circumstances, Stalin's Realpolitik, even if he does it under the cloak of de-Stalinization. He seeks to subordinate international communism, and the revolutionary movements of Asia, Africa and Latin America, to the purposes of Soviet policy and diplomacy...
...PROPHET OUTCAST, by Isaac Deutscher. The final volume of an excellent biographical trilogy on Trotsky, in which Stalin is shown using the immense apparatus of international Communism to stalk his old rival from country to country, to murder his sons, and finally to strike down the tough old man himself...
...PROPHET OUTCAST, by Isaac Deutscher. The last and most dramatic volume in this definitive biography of Leon Trotsky, the odd man out of the Communist revolution who died as he lived, fiercely but in vain...
...another, the old Bolsheviks took the stand, confessed monotonously to fantastic plots and implicated Trotsky. The more of them the maniacal Stalin murdered, the more he seemed to fear Trotsky. "The frenzy with which Stalin pursued the feud, making it the paramount preoccupation of international Communism, beggars description," writes Deutscher. "There is in the whole of history hardly another case in which such immense sources of power and propaganda were employed against a single individual...