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Excellent. This is hilarious and fascinating: To illustrate my historiographical method, I used an analogy: socialist-realist painting contrasted with Where’s Waldo? You can imagine a scene in some socialist-realist painting, where, say, Mao is shaking hands with Stalin, and there’s a big field and no one else there, just the two heroes with the wind blowing their overcoats. This is analogous to one historiographical model that many people use. This is how many people write about socialist history, with this exclusive focus on the succession of prominent figures: from Marx to maybe Kautsky to Lenin, to whoever hero you have next, Trotsky or Stalin, whatever. In contrast, what I want to do is the Where’s Waldo? method. This is where you have a huge picture, and if you look closely you can find Lenin, but there are tons of other people, and I wanted to fill in all the people, all the detail. So that’s what I was doing in Lenin Rediscovered. -- http://guavapuree.wordpress.com ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
