Review in The New Republic of The Black Book of Communism

[Johannes Schneider]

Alexandre Fenelon wrote:
> At 08:31 04/12/99 -0800, you  (ie Michael Pugliese) 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.
Michael,
Alexandre is certainly right. A quick Altavista search on 'Courtois +maoist'
will show it. So I wonder in which review, he was called a former
Trotskyist. How do you come to suspect the LCR?
There is a review of the book from the USFI International Viewpoint at:
http://www.ualberta.ca/~peterm/fi-doc_LNoir.htm
BTW the 'Historians Debate' in Germany took place in the mid-80's.
Johannes