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Tamara Deutscher
Tamara Deutscher (1 February 1913 – 7 August 1990) was a Polish-English writer and editor who fled from France in World War II and settled in London. She researched the leaders of Soviet Communism, together with her husband Isaac Deutscher. She also contributed articles to the ''New Left Review'', wrote a book about Vladimir Lenin and collaborated with other left wing authors. Biography Deutscher was born Tamara Lebenhaft in Łódź, in what was then Congress Poland. She was educated in Brussels and fled to Britain after the fall of France to Nazi Germany in World War II, escaping on one of the last ships to leave the south of France for Liverpool. In London, she was employed as secretary for an expatriate Polish journalists organisation. Her first marriage to Hilary Frimer ended in divorce. She married Isaac Deutscher in June 1947, who both described themselves "non-Jewish Jews." She and Deutscher collaborated on biographies of Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin. She edited ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ceylon
Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, also known historically as Ceylon, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, separated from the Indian subcontinent, Indian peninsula by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait. It shares a maritime border with the Maldives in the southwest and India in the northwest. Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte is the legislative capital of Sri Lanka, while the largest city, Colombo, is the administrative and judicial capital which is the nation's political, financial and cultural centre. Kandy is the second-largest urban area and also the capital of the last native kingdom of Sri Lanka. The most spoken language Sinhala language, Sinhala, is spoken by the majority of the population (approximately 17 million). Tamil language, Tamil is also spoken by approximately five million people, making it the second most-spoken language in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka has a population of appr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1990 Deaths
This is a list of lists of deaths of notable people, organized by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in ) and then linked below. 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 Earlier years ''Deaths in years earlier than this can usually be found in the main articles of the years.'' See also * Lists of deaths by day * Deaths by year (category) {{DEFAULTSORT:deaths by year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1913 Births
Events January * January – Joseph Stalin travels to Vienna to research his ''Marxism and the National Question''. This means that, during this month, Stalin, Hitler, Trotsky and Tito are all living in the city. * January 3 – First Balkan War: Greece completes its Battle of Chios (1912), capture of the eastern Aegean island of Chios, as the last Ottoman forces on the island surrender. * January 13 – Edward Carson founds the (first) Ulster Volunteers, Ulster Volunteer Force, by unifying several existing Ulster loyalism, loyalist militias to resist home rule for Ireland. * January 18 – First Balkan War: Battle of Lemnos (1913), Battle of Lemnos – Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it will not venture for the rest of the war. * January 23 – 1913 Ottoman coup d'état: Enver Pasha comes to power. February * February 1 – New York City's Grand Central Te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Trotskyists
British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. * British national identity, the characteristics of British people and culture * British English, the English language as spoken and written in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and, more broadly, throughout the British Isles * Celtic Britons, an ancient ethno-linguistic group * Brittonic languages, a branch of the Insular Celtic language family (formerly called British) ** Common Brittonic, an ancient language Other uses *People or things associated with: ** Great Britain, an island ** British Isles, an island group ** United Kingdom, a sovereign state ** British Empire, a historical global colonial empire ** Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800) ** United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1922) * British Raj, colonial India under the British Empire * British Hong Kong, colonial H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kohei Saito
(born January 31, 1987) is a Japanese philosopher. He is an associate professor at the University of Tokyo. Saito works on ecology and political economy from a Marxist perspective. His 2020 book '' Capital in the Anthropocene'' has been credited for inspiring a resurgence of interest in Marxist thought in Japan. Early life and education Saito graduated from Shiba Junior & Senior High School (芝中学校・芝高等学校), a private school in Tokyo. Saito studied hiliosophy?at the University of Tokyo (UTokyo) for three months and voluntarily withdrew from UTokyo. He enrolled in Wesleyan University, Connecticut from 2005 to 2009 as a Freeman Asian Scholarship recipient. In 2009, he began his master's studies at the Free University of Berlin, and in 2012 he switched to Humboldt University of Berlin where he was enrolled until 2015. Andreas Arndt was his doctoral advisor. Career Saito was subsequently a visiting scholar at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 2016 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roland Boer
Roland Theodore Boer (born 1961) is an Australian theologian and scholar of Marxism. He was awarded the Deutscher Memorial Prize in 2014. Career Boer obtained a bachelor's degree in divinity from the University of Sydney. He was a professor at University of Newcastle (Australia). In 2004, he founded the peer-reviewed academic journal ''The Bible and Critical Theory.'' In 2018, he was described by Xinhua as one of the world's top experts on Marxism. He teaches at the Dalian University of Technology's School of Marxism. He runs the blog ''Stalin's Moustache''. Notable works ''Political Myth: On the Use and Abuse of Biblical Themes'' ''Political Myth: On the Use and Abuse of Biblical Themes'' was released in 2009. It examines the political narratives that emerge from the Hebrew Bible on the political right and provides a framework to critique those narratives from the political left. ''The Sacred Economy of Ancient Israel'' ''The Sacred Economy of Ancient Israel'', rele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marxist
Marxism is a political philosophy and method of socioeconomic analysis. It uses a dialectical and materialist interpretation of historical development, better known as historical materialism, to analyse class relations, social conflict, and social transformation. Marxism originates from the works of 19th-century German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Marxism has developed over time into various branches and schools of thought, and as a result, there is no single, definitive " Marxist theory". Marxism has had a profound effect in shaping the modern world, with various left-wing and far-left political movements taking inspiration from it in varying local contexts. In addition to the various schools of thought, which emphasize or modify elements of classical Marxism, several Marxian concepts have been incorporated into an array of social theories. This has led to widely varying conclusions. Alongside Marx's critique of political economy, the defining ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deutscher Memorial Prize
The Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize is an annual prize given in honour of historian Isaac Deutscher and his wife Tamara Deutscher for a new book published in English "which exemplifies the best and most innovative new writing in or about the Marxist tradition." It has been ongoing since 1969. As of November 2021, members of the Deutscher Jury include Gilbert Achcar, Alex Callinicos, Alejandro Colas, Ben Fine, Rob Knox, Esther Leslie, Alfredo Saad-Filho, Chris Wickham, and Lea Ypi. Recipients include Jairus Banaji (2011, ''Theory as History: Essays on Modes of Production and Exploitation''), David Harvey (2010, ''The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism''), Rick Kuhn (2007, for a biography of Henryk Grossman), Christopher Wickham (2006, for '' Framing the Early Middle Ages''), Francis Wheen (1999, for a biography of Karl Marx), Eric Hobsbawm (1995, for ''The Age of Extremes''), Terry Eagleton (1989, ''The Ideology of the Aesthetic''), Robert Brenner Robert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
