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Asad Haider wrote: > They urge for an analysis of the purges that does not center on > Stalin's personality, which seems reasonable. We don't need an extended discussion of such matters, but I would say this, having watched the video of the interview you referred to. Getty has a rather narrow interest, which is to discredit the Robert Conquest version of what happened in the 1930s. But from everything I have read of Getty online, including his most ambitious work co-authored with a Russian historian, there is absolutely no engagement with Marxism. There is no sense of an understanding of the relevance of historical materialism to the Soviet Union. It is strictly a number crunching exercise heavily dependent on Soviet archives that tries to establish the fact that the 1930s repression was not orchestrated in all its details by Stalin. This was never the view of Marxist historians, to say the least. ________________________________________________ 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
