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On 12/1/10 10:31 PM, 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. This is totally non sequitur. ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
