![]() This man became the official voice for the five per cent of Tsarists, bourgeois, speculators, kulaks, pimps, maffiosi and Vlasovites, all justifiably repressed by the socialist state. ![]() ![]() With regard to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's research Gulag Archipelago, Martens stated: ![]() He had followed Lenin right from the beginning, at the time when Lenin only had a small number of adherents among the socialist intellectuals. No other Bolshevik leader could claim as constant or diverse activity as Stalin. In Another View of Stalin, Martens regards as the main factor behind the Ukrain famine (Holodomor) to be bad conditions and the class enemy. 16 Another view of Stalin the October Revolution, Stalin was a major supporter of Lenins line. Martens writes primarily in French however, his books, especially Another View of Stalin, have been translated into Dutch, English, and numerous other languages. As General Secretary under Lenin, he also oversaw brutal military actions throughout the civil war and led the 1921 invasion of Georgia to overthrow an unfriendly social-democratic government. He explained his motivation for writing the book in the introduction:ĭefending Stalin's work, essentially defending Marxism-Leninism, is an important, urgent task in preparing ourselves for class struggle under the New World Order. As you learned, Stalin actually proposed the idea of fighting the Communist Party’s enemies through systematic mass terror and killings to Lenin. In 1994, Martens published Another View of Stalin, a history of the Soviet Union under Stalin that challenges in particular the dominant view of collectivisation in the USSR and the Great Purge. ![]()
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