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His full-scale studies of Trotsky and Stalin, translated into many world languages, have played a major role in elucidating the character and fate of the Russian Revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe died on 19 August 1967, at the height of his powers. From his papers, his widow, Tamara Deutscher, selected and edited a group of essays and articles with a special unity of theme: the place of the Jew in the modern world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn these essays, Deutscher speaks of the emotional heritage of the European Jew with calmness and clear-sightedness. As a historian, he writes without anger but with compassion; as a non-Jewish Jew, he writes without religious belief, but with generous breadth of understanding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs a philosopher, he writes first of some of the great Jews of Europe: Spinoza, Heine, Marx, Trotsky, Rosa Luxemburg, and Freud. He explores the Jewish imagination through the painter Chagall. 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Among his own posthumously released drafts, one, at least, is incontestably neither mistake nor out-take: the text of his lecture course on Machiavelli, originally delivered at the École Normale Supérieure in 1972, intermittently revised up to the mid-1980s, and carefully prepared for publication after his death in 1990.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThough only appearing as an occasional reference in the Marxist philosopher's oeuvre, Machiavelli was an unseen constant presence. 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