Unfair to Stalin
Robert Service, 17 March 1988
Perestroika: New Thinking for Our Country and the World
by Mikhail Gorbachev.
Collins, 254 pp., £12.95, November 1987,0 00 215660 1 Show More
by Mikhail Gorbachev.
Collins, 254 pp., £12.95, November 1987,
The Birth of Stalinism: The USSR on the Eve of the ‘Second Revolution’
by Michal Reiman, translated by George Saunders.
Tauris, 188 pp., £24.50, November 1987,1 85043 066 7 Show More
by Michal Reiman, translated by George Saunders.
Tauris, 188 pp., £24.50, November 1987,
Stalin in October: The Man who Missed the Revolution
by Robert Slusser.
Johns Hopkins, 281 pp., £20.25, December 1987,0 8018 3457 0 Show More
by Robert Slusser.
Johns Hopkins, 281 pp., £20.25, December 1987,
“... of conservative, liberal and Trotskyite historians who followed Trotsky made the same mistake. Robert Slusser’s book supplies chapter and verse on the way Trotsky misconstrued Stalin’s role in the months before October 1917. Stalin was one of a handful of members of the Bolshevik Central Committee who formed its inner core. He seldom did as he was ... ”
