Tamara Deutscher (1 February 1913 – 7 August 1990) was a Polish-British writer and editor who researched the leaders of Soviet Communism, together with her husband

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. She was born Tamara Lebenhaft in

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, in what was then

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. She was educated in Brussels and arrived in Britain after the fall of France to Nazi Germany. Her first marriage to Hilary Frimer ended in divorce. She married Isaac Deutscher in June 1947. She died in

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Obituaries: Tamara Deutscher (1913-1990)
In: Revolutionary History, Vol. 3 No. 3, Spring 1991

In: New York Times, 9 August 1990 British Trotskyists 20th-century British writers Polish women writers 1913 births 1990 deaths 20th-century British women writers British Jews British people of Polish-Jewish descent Jewish socialists Polish emigrants to the United Kingdom {{UK-nonfiction-writer-stub

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