Review in The New Republic of The Black Book of Communism

Michael Pugliese debsian at pacbell.net
Sat Dec 4 08:31:35 PST 1999


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



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