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<DIV><FONT size=2>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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>MG</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=untimely_thoughts@yahoo.com
href="mailto:untimely_thoughts@yahoo.com">Peter Lavelle</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org
href="mailto:lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org">lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, October 24, 2004 2:33
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [lbo-talk] Chatting with Gorby
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<DIV>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? </DIV>
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<DIV>tx,</DIV>
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<DIV>Peter </DIV>
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