David S. pursued a legitimate conversation about how to do history and the example of Robert Conquest. The web page I linked supplies quotations and references to bourgeois, academic historians like J. Arch Getty who disprove factual conclusions asserted by Conquest./ http://www.stalinsociety.org/2015/08/05/grover-furr-on-robert-conquest//
Leave it to Louis the T. to fulminate about Stalin and to call Getty, Furr, and anyone else who disagrees "freaks." Louis' view of what happened is virtually identical to those of Robert Conquest, agent of British black propaganda and lord in residence at the Hoover Institution. To be sure, their prescriptions - imperialist "democracy" or Trotskyist recipe - differ. In general, Louis's posts are like an incandescent bulb in the era of LED lamps: a lot of wasted heat for very little light. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
