![]() ![]() He was baptised into the Orthodox church as a child, and in later life became an active adherent of Orthodoxy. He was born into an artistic Russian Jewish family, his father was a university professor and artist and his mother was a musician, his parents were followers of Tolstoy. This essay also appeared in a modified form in the collection of Deutscher’s writings Ironies of History: Essays on Contemporary Communism (London, 1966) significant textual variations are indicated in the notes.īoris Leonidovich Pasternak (1890-1960) was a poet, playwright and novelist and a leading translator of classical literature, including Shakespeare, Schiller and Goethe, into the Russian language. ![]() Scanned, prepared and annotated for the Marxist Internet Archive by Paul Flewers. Source: Labour Review, Volume 6, no 1, Spring 1961. Isaac Deutscher 1961 Pasternak and the Calendar of the Revolution Pasternak and the Calendar of the Revolution by Isaac Deutscher 1961 ![]()
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