Damn, if that journal Historical Materialism wasn't so expensive to sub to! And, I've never seen a copy at left bookstores. (Calling Sebastian Budgeon.)
A reminder, to Carrol and y'all, that the Hal Draper essay on WITBD is here on the net. http://www.marxists.org/archive/draper/works/1990/myth/myth.htm
Comrade CB, Carrol and Yoshie, Comrade Judith LeBlanc of the CPUSA asked me for more of my suggestions on readings on Soviet history. I trust Comrade C. Brown will disabuse her of my scurrilous ways.
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From: Michael Pugliese <debsian at p...> Date: Sat Jul 28, 2001 12:06 pm Subject: Books on Leninism "Beyond The Fragments, " by Sheila Rowbotham, Lynne Segal and Hilary Wainwright, is an early 80's socialist- feminist critique of UK Leninism. Leninism, Stalinism, and the women's movement in Britain, 1920-1939 / Sue Bruley. Publ/date New York : Garland Pub., 1986. Hmm. "Lenin and Politics, " by A.J. Polan, is a good, short critique of the shortcomings of Leninist political theory. "Leninism, " by Neil Harding, Duke Univ. Press, 1996, maybe this is a distillation of his earlier 3 vols. on Leninism? "Marxism and Leninism, Not Marxism-Leninism: An Essay in the Sociology of Knowledge, Vol. 335, " by John H. Kautsky, Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated Pub. Date: November 1993 (related to Karl?, a son of Karl, was Benedict, ... in the camp, Dr. Benedict Kautsky, tells the court that the prisoners were beaten so often that the skin on their backsides burst. Kautsky, a former Austrian ... "Marxism, Revisionism, and Leninism: Explication, Assessment, and Commentary, " by Richard F. Hamilton, Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated Pub. Date: September 2000 Hamilton, authored a classic, "Who Voted for Hitler, " and destroyed the "working class authoritarism, " thesis of S. M. Lipset in , "Politican Man." The Crisis of Leninism and the Decline of the Left: The Revolutions of 1989, " Daniel Chirot (Editor), University of Washington Press Pub. Date: June 1991. Mostly liberals and conservatives, but, the always excellent Bruce Cumings gives a neo-marxist comeback. Chirot, btw, wrote some Wallersteinian stuff and has a book entitled, "Modern Tyrants." "A Look at Leninism, " Ron Taber. Taber also co-authored a longer volume from Greenwood Press, more recently, "Trotskyism and the dilemma of socialism / Christopher Z. Hobson and Ronald D. Tabor. Publ/date New York : Greenwood Press, 1988. British Trotskyism : theory and practice / John Callaghan. Publ/date Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York, NY : Basil Blackwell, 1984. On guard against Browderism, Titoism, Trotskyism / John Gates. Publ/date New York : New Century Publishers, 1951. (Gates, got his nerve up later, was a leader in the attempt to democratize the CPUSA in 1956.) Beilharz, P. (1987). Trotsky, Trotskyism and the Transition to Socialism, Beckenham, Croom Helm. Peter Beilharz writes for Thesis 11. Beilharz co-author, Johan Arneson, has another book, I read, a few yrs. back, "The future that failed : origins and destinies of the Soviet model / Johann P. Arnason. Publ/date London ; New York : Routledge, 1993. This one should be a hoot! The History and Impact of Marxist-Leninist Organizational Theory: Useful Idiots," "Innocents' Clubs," and "Transmission Belts, " by John Pearson Roche, Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis, Incorporated Pub. Date: January 1984. This is a serious work however, "The Organizational Weapon, " by Phillip Selznick, RAND Corp. or Van Nostrand pubs., I think., early 50's. Selznick in the 40's was a Shactmanite. "Mao, Browder and Social Democracy, " Marxist-Leninist Party, U. S. A. Staff National Executive Committee of the MLP, USA (Editor) Marxist-Leninist Books & Periodicals Pub. Date: March 1980 (Calling Ben Seattle!) Origins of Stalinism: From Leninist Revolution to Stalinist Society Pavel Campeanu Michel Vale (Translator) Leninism: Political Economy As Pseudoscience, " by Dovring, Folke Hardcover, 168 Pages, Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated, May 1996 ISBN: 0275954641 "The Rise of the Gulag: Intellectual Origins of Leninism, " by Besancon, Alain Hardcover, Continuum Publishing Company, January 1980 Cited by Neo-Cons. Writes occasionally for Commentary magazine. Michael Pugliese, just a few books...plus studies by H. B. Action, Alfred G. Meyer,Stanley Page, David Lane, Leszek Kolakowski in vol. 2 or 3 of Main Currents of Marxism, A. Walicki in, "Marxism and the Leap to Freedom, " if memory serves, Stanford Univ. Press.