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Tom Cod wrote: I've bookmarked some of these for further analysis, but I have to say that > any reference to Trotsky's view of the Ukraine as moral authority in this > context should be viewed with skepticism as his role there as a leader of > the Soviet regime was notorious as he played a brutal role there in > suppressing the Ukrainian insurgent workers and peasants during the period > of the revolution. Peter Arshinov's book on the Makho movement in the > Ukraine, which I picked up in a radical bookstore in the 70s, reproduces > Trotsky's "War Order No. 1" in which he ordered the dispersal of the > All-Ukranian Congress of Soviets and the summary execution of its deputies. It's not a bad idea to check other sources for claims by Voline as to events in the Ukraine between Mahkno and the Bolsheviks. "[Arshinov and Voline] seriously misrepresent the sequence of events which led to Makhno’s calamitous abandonment of the Red Army front against Denikin in May and June 1919, in order to organize and attend a local anarchist congress in Guliai-Pole. [They] have been followed in this misrepresentation by many secondary sources. Once a more probable chronology is established, the received interpretation…becomes notably less convincing. A likely alternative is that Makhno did in fact desert his post with his forces, as the Bolsheviks claimed at the time. This is much more than a mere detail. Anarchist claims for Makhno-as-victim of Soviet treachery have been ideologically important at various junctures, such as the French student revolt of 1968, and have relied heavily on this kind of ambiguity.1" http://www.isreview.org/issues/53/makhno.shtml ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
