Stalinism

[Edward M Dumanis]

On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Mike Murley wrote:
............
> I'm a historian, not a Slavic languages scholar (but I hire them!)
>
> In my view, V. I. Lenin was a 'true believer' in Bolshevism - while the
> first thing "Great Stalin" did was begin a purge (political, then
> liquidation) of the revolutionaries while concurrently re-establishing the
> secret police (the Chekists) with many of their cadres being former Czarist
> secret policemen (you need 'organization men' for such an enterprise).

I am sorry for intruding into your domain (History) but CheKa was created
by Lenin, and S.-R.s found themselves in Solovki during Lenin's time.

................

> ...we in the West remember the Holocaust while ignoring the far greater
> crimes of Stalin (we saw one first had and the other is still partially
> hidden).
>

I think that it is because Stalin's crimes have been viewed MOSTLY as
internal affairs while Hitler's have been viewed MOSTLY as external
afairs.

Edward Dumanis <dumanis at acsu.buffalo.edu>

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