isaac-deutscher-the-prophet-armed-trotsky-1879-1921

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I AM greatly indebted for criticism and friendly encouragement to
Professor E: H. Carr and Mrs. Barbara Ward-Jackson, who read
parts of my manuscript; and to Mr. Donald Tyerman, who read the
whole. Mr. Bernard Singer helped me with his intimate knowledge
of Russian life. To Mr. D. M. Davin and members of the Editorial
Staff of the Oxford University Press I am grateful for many suggestions
for improvements in style. Mr. Hugo Dewar and Mr. Jon
Kimche kindly assisted me with materials and books, some of which
are now bibliographical rarities. My thanks are given to Professor
Wm. A. Jackson and his assistants at the Houghton Library, Harvard
University, who helped my wife and me to find our way through
the dossiers of the Trotsky Archives. I am similarly obliged to the
Staffs of the Hoover Library, the London Library, the British
Museum, and the National Central Library.
The generosity of the Oxford University Press and the Humanities
Department of the Rockefeller Foundation enabled my wife and me
to spend many months in the United States and to carry out that
part of our research programme which depended entirely on our
access to the above-mentioned American libraries.
My debt to other authors is acknowledged in footnotes. The
quotation from Machiavelli's The Prince on page xii is taken by
permission of J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., from the translation by
W. K. Marriott in the Everyman's Library.
I. D.