Historian Matt Lenoe: “If Stalin ordered the murder he certainly did not commit his instructions to paper. As Kirilina, Khlevniuk, and Getty have demonstrated, however, most of the purported evidence for Stalin’s complicity derives from unreliable sources ... In the end it does not matter for our overall understanding of Soviet history whether he plotted Kirov’s assassination or not.” (emphasis added)
–from "Did Stalin Kill Kirov and Does It Matter?," Matt Lenoe, The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 74, No. 2 (June 2002), pp. 352-380. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/343411 Get your gutter expletives out, Trotskyists, because this example is discussed in a new article by Grover Furr. Example of what? Example of circular reasoning: We know Stalin was bad, so we can ignore that we cannot prove it: “Did Stalin Kill Kirov and Does It Matter?” Lenoe insists that it “doesn’t matter” because, even though Stalin did not kill Kirov, Stalin was so evil that the fact that he was not guilty of killing this one man, Sergei Kirov, was insignificant. –Grover Furr, "The Crisis of Soviet History of the Stalin Period and What We Should Do About It," https://www.idcommunism.com/2025/01/the-crisis-of-soviet-history-of-stalin-period-and-what-we-should-do-about-it.html ( https://www.idcommunism.com/2025/01/the-crisis-of-soviet-history-of-stalin-period-and-what-we-should-do-about-it.html ) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#34699): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/34699 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/110691249/21656 -=-=- 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. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
