Month: May 2021

Written by Hari Kumar, 1993. Previously posted to Alliance-ML. A BRIEF BOOK REVIEW : “Stalinist Terror, New Perspectives.” Edited by J. Arch Getty and Roberta T. Manning. Cambridge University Press, 1993. ISBN 0-521-44125-0 Hardback or 0-521-44670-8 Paperback. Cost : $24.15 paperback in Canada. This book has considerable interest. It presents rare data of interest, and also shows a changing wind in academia. The usual wind is: Stalin was nasty and cruel; alternatively stupid, or bright and devious; who was not responsible for good things like the Soviet conduct of the War; who …etc. Ultimately the truth will out. The mythology…