I also respect Suny and hope i will be able to get into his new book at some point. However there is a passage in this *LA Review of Books* excerpt that puzzled me:
"Somehow they found copies of *The Communist Manifesto*, Marx’s *The Erfurt Program*, and Engels’s *The Development of Scientific Socialism*, which they borrowed for a few days and laboriously copied out by hand during the night. They were told that these were the only copies in all of Tiflis." Kautsky's book *The Erfurt Program* (1892; usually published as "The Class Struggle: the Erfurt Program") was widely known and spread throughout the socialist movement from the 1890s on. There is no such book by Marx. Marx died in 1883, the Erfurt Congress which ratified "The Erfurt Program" (drafted by Bernstein, Bebel and Kautsky) was held in 1891. I can imagine that due to problems of international communication and translation, semi-underground publishing and other difficulties, Kautsky's book was spread among Stalin and his young comrades in Georgia in 1896-97 as a book by Marx. But what explains Suny's contemporary 'report' without any comment? On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 6:25 AM Louis Proyect <l...@panix.com> wrote: > > Looking forward to this. Suny is great. > > https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/koba-an-excerpt-from-ronald-grigor-sunys-stalin-passage-to-revolution/ > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#2181): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/2181 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/77194602/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: marxmail+ow...@groups.io Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
