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"Stalin’s murderous rule": this is a huge lie defended only by the bourgeoisie and some Trotskyists. The main goal of attacking Stalin is to demoralize communism as a whole. See Losurdo's "*Stalin: The History and Critique of a Black Legend". *In this book Stalin is put in context, and he's shown just to be taking the same actions other leaders of his time - in France, USA and England - took. Besides that, these huge numbers of "mass murders" are shown to be just a Cold War fabrication. I recommend also "*Life and terror in Stalin's Russia*", by Robert Thurston (this author is not a Marxist, and this makes his book even more interesting). *G.A.* *Brazil* 2016-01-30 16:30 GMT-08:00 Louis Proyect via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu>: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > KEN LIVINGSTONE has recently set the cat among the pigeons by suggesting > that Joseph Stalin the Soviet dictator was not all bad. His crimes and > aggressions much exaggerated. Ken is evidently at one with Anatoly Utkin, a > former director of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the editor of a > teachers‘ manual on modern Russian history, who went so far as to compare > Joseph Stalin’s erudition to the tardy efforts of those in the West: “Can > you tell me”, Utkin asked in 2008, “of any other leader, an American > president, for example, who read 10,000 books?” Utkin was drawing attention > to the fact that Stalin, when he wasn’t initialling lists of people to be > shot, got through at least one book every day between 1924 and 1953. > > Vladimir Putin is also backing the drift towards a revision of Stalin’s > record with regard to both his victory over Hitler, and the > industrialisation of the country during the nineteen thirties. Putin, > despite much evidence to the contrary, favourably contrasts Joseph Stalin’s > centralism to the dastardly ‘federalism’ of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, which he > thinks explains the fragmentation of the Russian empire. It seems that > Stalin, despite many errors and at times, excessive severity, ensured that > Russian workers and peasants made the sacrifices necessary for the founding > of modern industry and the consolidation of a great state. > > full: http://www.donmilligan.net/OTC_Column.html > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/glauberataide%40gmail.com _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
