re: #199 Sergey Romanov

Look up the Kronstadt rebellion. Also, recently a read an in-depth monograph on the trial of SRs, and Trotsky was pretty much “in” on what was happening there (which was a judicial lynching, predating Stalin’s show trials).

Cool, I’ll look in to it. As far as the USSR went, I think there was a lot of naivete about it on the global left frankly. The person who intrigues me is Rosa Luxemberg, a German leftist who was among the first to turn against the USSR on the far left. I quoted her in a paper I wrote on German imperialism in Africa last fall as a matter of fact.