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a comrade sent me some Chris Ford articles offline after a Facebook discussion; I haven't had time to read them yet but he's definitely worth following On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Louis Proyect <l...@panix.com> wrote: > ====================================================================== > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > ====================================================================== > > > On 5/5/14 9:59 AM, Louis Proyect wrote: > >> I wonder if an English-language Marxist history of the Ukraine exists. I >> am referring on and off to Orest Subtelny's 900 page book but despite >> being informative lacks a class perspective. Roman Szporluk seems a bit >> more grounded in Marxism although it is hard to tell where he is coming >> from politically. >> > > The benefits of being a Columbia University retiree: > > Maĭstrenko, Ivan Borot'bism : a chapter in the history of Ukrainian > Revolution / Ivan Maĭstrenko ; with a new introduction by Chris Ford ; > translated by George S.N. Luckyj with the assistance of Ivan L. Rudnytsky. > Maĭstrenko, Ivan. Stuttgart : Ibidem, 2007. > > On Ivan Maistrenko: > > Majstrenko was applying positions held by many Marxists of pre-Stalinist > Russia to Stalinist Russia: “Russia was always the land where Asiatic and > European influences clashed”, the European being the revolutionary > democracy with whose defeat “the victory of Stalinism signified for Russia > the victory of Asiatic influences ... During 20 years of Stalinist rule > Marxist teaching became an empty ritual and the Russian imperialist > doctrine became predominant. It revived the spirit of Asiatic traditions, > in particular unlimited absolutism.” [10] > > Chris Ford > Supporter of Republican Marxist Bulletin > > full: http://www.marxists.org/history/etol/revhist/backiss/ > vol3/no3/ford.html > > > > > > ________________________________________________ > Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu > Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/ > marxism/acpollack2%40gmail.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
