Lenin's ChildhoodIsaac Deutscher was planning to write a biography of Lenin after he completed the Trotsky trilogy. However, he changed his mind and wrote one of Stalin instead. This was necessary, he argued, to show that Stalin is an objective fact. He won the faction fight. We lost. He can't be ignored. The tome on Stalin duly appeared and was respectfully received. Then he began work on Lenin. It was intended to counter the deadening hagiographies produced by