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Today, I started in Isaac Deutscher's biography of Lev Trotsky. It's a well-written piece about a great thinker/orator/writer, who was also a fine humanist.



Took me a while, but I finished all three volumes of the biography. Well worth my time and energy. Deutscher is a good writer, although he seems rather sympathetic to the cause. With regards to Trotsky, I'll certainly read more from him.
I just started Trotsky's - Stalin: an appraisal of the man and his influence.

In the last few months, I have also read:

N.S. Leskov - Cathedral Folk
Well written story about mid-19th century Russia in general and the Russian orthodox church in particular. It has a few very funny parts, not unlike Gogol.

F.M. Dostoyevsky - Crime and Punishment
Great.

Aldous Huxley - Those Barren Leaves
I like Huxley more and more. He has a sarcastic (almost cynical) and very British style of portraying people.
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