Conversation Between Paul Pott and Ismail

  1. Ismail
    Because debating the SCW on RevLeft is a big waste of time. Read works by Paul Preston, Helen Graham and Gabriel Jackson if you want a good introduction, they're not MLs but they also don't accuse the PCE of being some sort of evil conspiratorial force that ruined everything.
  2. Maybe you'd have something to add on the thread on the International Brigades in Learning? I've never seen you post on the war in Spain.
  3. Ismail
    It's worth reading.
  4. Everyday Stalinism?
  5. Ismail
    Yes.
  6. Wikipedia article on NEPmen:

    "...by instituting the NEP, which encouraged private buying and selling, even to, as one official put it, "get rich"."

    This official was Bukharin, wasn't it?
  7. Ismail
    Maybe, but I wouldn't trust a pro-Soviet revisionist party.
  8. Do you think its possible KKE may be turning back from its poor stances of recent years as criticized by Anasintaxi and others?
    http://www.revleft.com/vb/showpost.p...9&postcount=46
  9. Ismail
    1. Yes, that is what the Soviets feared. A good introductory read to this subject is Clement Leibovitz's In Our Time: The Chamberlain-Hitler Collusion. A CPGB book from the 50's, The Munich Conspiracy by Andrew Rothstein, is also worth checking out on the subject.
    2. The West. There are various works on this. A good read on one of the first issues of the Cold War can found in Drawing the Line: The American Decision to Divide Germany, 1944-1949.
  10. Two questions -

    1. Did Britain and France prefer a war between the USSR and Germany instead of a grand alliance against the Nazis? Basically, to entertain an hypothetical scenario, had the M-R pact never been signed, would Hitler have been 'appeased' again and again had he invaded Poland and restored the old pre-1918 German borders, then later attacked the Soviet Union with the western powers trading him the raw materials he needed? What evidence is there for something like that?

    2. Did the west start the Cold War, or the Soviets? Are there any works on that?

    Lol sorry about the random topics.
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