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In reply to the discussion: Russia is not our Adversary [View all]elfin
(6,262 posts)Here is some more info on him -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Deutscher
I have perused some of his writings online, but so far can't find the essay (or perhaps it was a long excerpt) that I remember so vividly that saved my transcript.
Originally a Pole before settling in Britain who was a Trotskyite for a time and became a political analyst whose ideas became important to both Marxist and non-Marxist historians.
It appears me that the warm water port quest points were quickly disseminated and popularized.as the west was trying to find a framework to help them understand Russia aside from Das Kapital and WWII.
Don't know if he in turn was using someone else's ideas and then elaborating enough to merit inclusion in that darn text that weighed about #30 pounds as I recall.