Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary, replies to historian Robert Service, who appears in five Hoover Institute videos, posted on youtube, debating with Christopher Hitchens on the life of Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky, part four
Re: what Peter says at 1:30 - i haven't read Service's "Trotsky", but i've read his "History of Russia", and he does the same sort of thing there, too. e.g.// One moment he'll say that Lenin wanted to secure his own personal ambitions to rule, and the next moment he'll be talking about the rights of national self-determination that the Bolsheviks granted to the separate nations around Russia. Service cannot stay consistent even within his own analysis.
Re: what Peter says at 1:30 - i haven't read Service's "Trotsky", but i've read his "History of Russia", and he does the same sort of thing there, too. e.g.// One moment he'll say that Lenin wanted to secure his own personal ambitions to rule, and the next moment he'll be talking about the rights of national self-determination that the Bolsheviks granted to the separate nations around Russia. Service cannot stay consistent even within his own analysis.
dalellll 1 year ago
very interesting.
i own Stalin and Lenin by Robert Service, but i'm yet to buy Trotsky... perhaps I will pass on that one..
Ilikenuman 1 year ago