Review in The New Republic of The Black Book of Communism

[Michael Pugliese]

http://www.thenewrepublic.com/magazines/tnr/122099/scammell122099.html
TNR | The Price of an Idea by Michael Scammell

    On the argument of S. Courtois, and "class genocide". That was thephrase
used by right-wing German historian, Ernest Nolte, in the "Historians
Debate" in Germany in the mid-70's, that was an attempt by the right to
"normalize" the Nazi experience and rehabilitate them as only trying to save
the Christian West from the Godless Bolshevik Devils. From other reviews of
the Courtois book, I gather that he was a Trotskyist back in the 60's?
Anyone know details. Alain Krivine's group or some other splinter?

                                       Michael Pugliese