Dear Mr Rees,
While I tend to view you as
one of the most severe historians
covering this particular historical period I find your absence of any mention
of Stalin’s' wiping out a generation of Marxists inside the former USSR
somewhat strange.
In your book [1] Behind
Closed Doors on page 94, you say that Stalin had no opposition inside the
party. I think it would have helped your latest book if you had, at least, a
chapter on the inner party struggle between Trotsky and Stalin.
I would like to know your
views on Leon Trotsky or the Left Opposition which was opposed to Stalinism
from the left. After all the Purges were a
response to the growing influence of Trotsky and his ability to the counter the
anti-revolutionary views of Stalin.
It would seem that this
period of Soviet history is being erased or distorted in many new books on the
subject, for example, the new biographies of Trotsky by Geoffrey Swain and Ian
Thatcher
[1] World War Two: Behind
Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis, and the West [Kindle Edition] Laurence
Rees
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