<< A little reflection before reaction maybe?>>>
IN fact, if you had read (?) (or read more carefully ?) my initial point
about Lenin, it was to say that NO consensus exists amongst
scholars of marxism (i.e., Marxsts, social historians of Russia) as
to whether the rise of Stalinism can be explained purely through
Lenin's theories, or through other causes.
I don't have the time to get into whole debate on the history of the
soviet union.
David
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Subject: SV: Lenin (was: Re: Something Positive?
Date sent: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 23:23:56 +0100
> David,
> I'm not particularly interested in the current debate with its multitude of
> insulting messages.
>
> However, I just wanted to make very sure that you realised that the
> discussion is about Estonia. A beautiful country, were people, in spite of
> constant colonisation and hostilities from all their neighbours, has managed
> to retain their language and culture.
>
> Whether you think Lenin's theories are this, that or the other, the practice
> is that Lenin's Soviet Union refused to grant the Estonian people their
> freedom and fought actively in war against them to prevent them from taking
> it. The freedom war happened between february 1918 and the same month 1920.
> The free Estonian republic lasted 22 years before it was their time for
> Stalin.
>
> As to experience, it probably depends on whether or not you belong to the
> dominant or oppressed group of the particular society (a good indication
> would be if you were Estonian- or Russian-speaking). A thing we who are sooo
> good on the social model should be able to understand.
>
> A little reflection before reaction maybe?
>
> Susanne
>
>
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