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> > One of the darkest pages in Soviet and indeed Russian history was the > anti-cosmopolitan campaign Stalin unleashed against everything Western in > 1949, a campaign that ultimately focused on the Jews whom the Soviet dictator > was planning to deport beyond the Urals at the time of his death. My understanding is that the deportation claim is a myth. I asked a leftist Russian friend of mine who emailed me that in 2002 and 2003 a well known anti-Soviet scholar, Gennadii Kostyrchenko, published essays disproving the myth. The author is very anti-Stalin and the essays caused quite a stir, but haven’t been refuted. I don’t speak Russian, but for anyone who does, these are the citations my friend sent me: Gennadii Kostyrchenko. "Massovaia vysylka evreev. Proshchanie s mifom stalinskoi epokhi." _Lekhaim_ No. 22 (September, 2002). G.K., "Deportatsiia - Mistifikatsiia." _Otechestvennaia istoriia_ 1 (2003). Even without speaking Russian, the title of the last essay is clear. Glenn ________________________________________________ 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
