[lbo-talk] Chatting with Gorby

[Marvin Gandall]

He's probably been asked and answered it already: In retrospect, was it a mistake for the Bolsheviks to have seized power in Russia in 1917, given the subsequent history of the USSR and its ignominious collapse ? Could industrialization, land reform, and the raising of the social and cultural standards of the Soviet peoples have been accomplished by the broader Menshevik-led coalition of forces which made the February Revolution, or was Bolshevism, which mutated into Stalinism, somehow "historically necessary" to modernize? I suspect his answer will be that the program of the Right Opposition under Bukharin could have done all this less painfully and on a more enduring basis, but maybe his position has evolved further over the past decade.

MG

  ----- Original Message ----- 

  From: Peter Lavelle 

  To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org 

  Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2004 2:33 PM

  Subject: [lbo-talk] Chatting with Gorby 

  I am slated to meet Gorbachev on Tuesday afternoon for a short one-on-one for an interview. I have my questions - does the IBO crowd have questions to be asked? 

  tx,

  Peter    

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