Tamara Deutscher
Tamara Deutscher (1 February 1913 – 7 August 1990) was a Polish-British writer and editor who researched the leaders of Soviet Communism, together with her husband Isaac Deutscher.
She was born Tamara Lebenhaft in Łódź, in what was then Congress Poland. She was educated in Brussels and arrived in Britain after the fall of France to Nazi Germany. In London she was secretary for an expatriate Polish journalists organisation.[1]
Her first marriage to Hilary Frimer ended in divorce. She married Isaac Deutscher in June 1947. She and Deutscher collaborated on biographies of Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin. She edited collections of her husband's work following his 1967 death.[1]
Her study on Lenin, The Other Lenin, was published in 1973. She also collaborated with E. H. Carr in his final volumes on Soviet history.[1]
Deutscher died on 7 August 1990 in London.[1]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "Tamara Deutscher, Writer, 77". The New York Times. 9 August 1990.
External links
[edit]- Obituaries: Tamara Deutscher (1913-1990) In: Revolutionary History, Vol. 3 No. 3, Spring 1991
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