![]() ![]() Trotsky, in his masterful unfinished Stalin, explains clearly the details of Stalin’s early life in a much clearer fashion. And yet, the only thing that is ’startling’ about this book is that there is very little new evidence but a lot of old falsehoods about Stalin. Montefiore claims that "massive research and astonishing new evidence in archives from Moscow to Georgia cast an entirely different light on Stalin’s role". Simon Sebag Montefiore’s Young Stalin is the latest and undoubtedly one of the worst of its kind. But following the collapse of Stalinism in 1989, a ’galaxy’ of crude, capitalist ’historians’ have had a field day. Carr, for instance, tried to be objective about the Russian Revolution. In the past there was a counterweight to the possessing classes’ frenzy over the Russian Revolution. This was a headline, not from the gutter press but from a so-called ’quality’ US capitalist newspaper in the immediate period after the 1917 October Revolution. ![]() ![]() "Lenin shot by Trotsky in drunken brawl". ![]()
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