Isaac Deutscher, noted writer and Marxist theoretician, author of political biographies of Trotsky and Stalin and of other works on the Soviet Union and its development, died at the age of 60, while on a visit here. A resident of Great Britain, Deutscher was born in Krakow, Poland, to a Hassidic family of printers and publishers of religious books. He attended a yeshiva, took up secular Hebrew studies and wrote Hebrew poetry before turning to radical writings.
A prominent Communist theoretician between the wars, he later left the Communist Party and Poland and, after a period in France, he settled in England. He took no part in Jewish life.
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