I am intrigued by the cover on this pamphlet, which is described as a "Bolshevik Propaganda Poster published during the Polish-Soviet War in 1920." Marxism and War: The Origins and History of Revolutionary Defeatism - RCIT - Revolutionary Communist International Tendency<https://www.thecommunists.net/theory/origins-and-history-of-revolutionary-defeatism/>
Is the RCIT suggesting that the Bolshevik offensive war against Poland, shortly after Poland's achievement of independence from Tsarist Russia, was an example of "revolutionary defeatism"? The offensive against Poland following the Bolsheviks' defeat of the Polish armed intervention against Ukraine, was controversial within the Bolshevik leadership (Trotsky, the Red Army commissar, opposed it). And it turned into a total disaster; the Red Army troops were decisively defeated by the Poles and retreated in complete disarray, committing many atrocities along the way. The story is told in Paul Kellogg's book, Truth Behind Bars, “Truth Behind Bars” | Athabasca University Press<https://www.aupress.ca/books/120285-truth-behind-bars/>. See chapter 6: "Poland and Georgia - The Export of Revolution." Richard Fidler -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#42210): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/42210 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/119987077/21656 -=-=- 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. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
