The Deutscher
Memorial Lectures
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The Deutscher Memorial Lecture is delivered each year in November by the previous year’s winner of the Prize. Below is a list (not yet fully reconstructed) of the titles of the lectures since they began in 1969. |
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2007 |
R. Khun |
'Economic Crisis, Henryk Grossman, and the Responsibilities of Socialists'
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2006 |
C. Wickham |
'Problems Concerning the Economic Logic of the Feudal Mode'
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2005 |
K. Murphy |
'Can We Write the History of the Russian Revolution? - A Belated Response to Eric Hobsbawm'
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2004 |
M. A. Lebowitz |
'The Politics of Assumption, The Assumption of Politics'
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2003 (Joint Award) |
N. Davidson
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'How Revolutionary were the Bourgeois Revolutions?' 'Bourgeois Revolution, State-Formation and the Problem of the International'
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2002 |
B. Kelly |
'Materialism and the Persistence of Race in the Jim Crow South'
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2001 |
J. Holstun |
‘Agnes Smedley and the Chinese Revolution’
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2000 |
P. Gowan |
‘American Global Government: Will it Work?’ |
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1999 |
F. Wheen |
‘Isaac Deutscher & Karl Marx: a Tale of Two Journalists’ |
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1998 |
M. Cox |
‘A Tale of Two Exiles: Isaac Deutscher and E.H. Carr’ |
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1997 |
R. Blackburn |
‘Slavery and Anti-Slavery: the Historical Legacy’ |
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1996 |
D. Sassoon |
‘Fin-de-Siecle Socialism’ |
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1995 |
E. J. Hobsbawm |
‘Can We Write a History of the Russian Revolution?’ |
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1994 |
J. Rosenberg |
‘Isaac Deutscher and the Lost History of International Relations’ |
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1993 |
H. Kaye |
‘Why Do Ruling Classes Fear History?’ |
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1992 |
I. Gough/L. Doyal |
‘Meeting Human Needs’ |
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1991 |
M. Davis |
‘California: the Decline and Fall of a State-Nation’ |
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1990 |
A. J. Mayer |
‘Violence and Terror in the French and Russian Revolutions’ |
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1989 |
T. Eagleton |
‘The Origins of Ideology’ |
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1988 |
B. Kagarlitsky |
‘The Importance of Being Marxist’ |
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1987 |
T. Shanin |
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1986 |
E. Meiksins Wood |
‘Capitalism and Human Emancipation’ |
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1985 |
R. Brenner |
’The Autonomy of the State’ |
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1984 |
M. Rose |
‘Marx and Art’ |
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1983 |
B. Taylor |
‘Feminism and the Radical Tradition’ |
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1982 |
G. de Ste. Croix |
‘Class in Marx's Conception of History, Ancient and Modern’ |
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1981 |
N. Harding |
‘Lenin’s Marxism’
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1980 |
B. Rowthorn |
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1979 |
G. A. Cohen |
‘Freedom, Justice and Capitalism’ |
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1978 |
R. Bahro |
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1977 |
No Lecture |
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1976 |
W. Brus |
‘Polish October – Twenty Years After’ |
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1975 |
M. Liebman |
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1974 |
M. Rodinson |
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1973 |
No Lecture |
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1972 |
P. Walton/A. Gamble |
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1971 |
No Lecture |
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1970 |
I. Meszaros |
‘Alienation and Social Control’
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1969 |
M. Nicolaus |
No Lecture Given |