“[...] the foreign policy of any government [...] is a prolongation of its domestic policy. This is all to often forgotten in a period of 'summit' meetings, when the public is led to believe that three or four Big Men solve, or fail to solve, the world's predicaments according to whether they have or do not have the wisdom, the good will, or the magic wand needed for their task.”
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Great Contest: Russia and the West
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Isaac Deutscher
Isaac Deutscher was a British writer and historian, renowned for his biographies of Karl Marx and Trotsky. Born on April 3, 1907, in Latvia, he passed away on August 19, 1967. Deutscher's work, characterized by its scholarly depth and literary quality, has had a significant impact on the understanding of Marxism and the Russian Revolution. more
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