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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. Yeah, I know, we're not supposed to bring up Trotsky-Stalin stuff here, but moderated broached the issue. Moreover, whether something is a "Marxist analysis", what I don't purport to present, begs the question of what actually occurred (whether something "passes muster" in material and empirical terms). Nonetheless, Makhno's army remained steadfast opponents of the Whites, dealing them a critical defeat in 1919 that saved the Russian Soviet regime. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Arshinov http://www.amazon.com/Makhnovist-movement-1918-1921-translated-Lorraine/dp/B004424SYY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1291260143&sr=1-1-spell For people looking for a Marxist analysis of the Balkan wars, I believe > my own articles pass muster: > > http://www.swans.com/library/art9/lproy04.html > > http://www.columbia.edu/%7Elnp3/mydocs/fascism_and_war/ordfront.htm > > http://www.columbia.edu/%7Elnp3/mydocs/fascism_and_war/Kosovo.htm > > http://www.columbia.edu/%7Elnp3/mydocs/fascism_and_war/atc_reply.htm > > > http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2007/12/21/a-serbophobe-outburst-in-the-nation-magazine/ > > http://www.columbia.edu/%7Elnp3/mydocs/fascism_and_war/trotsky.htm > > http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2009/03/31/the-lessons-of-yugoslavia/ > > ________________________________________________ > Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu > Set your options at: > http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/tomcod3%40gmail.com > ________________________________________________ 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
