Review in The New Republic of The Black Book of Communism

[Alexandre Fenelon]

At 08:31 04/12/99 -0800, you wrote:
>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
>
>
He was a Maoist, according to the information I've read on "The Black Book
of Communism". There is a good article on this book in the World Socialist
Web.

                        Alexandre