Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 18:20:57 -0800 (PST)
From: Michael Handelman <mhandelman1-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: AUT: Re: Russia without the Bolsheviks???


Surely, somebody has written an alternate history
along those lines.

(Or if no has, somebody should)

>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Richard Collins 
>   To: aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu 
>   Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 5:44 PM
>   Subject: AUT: Russia without the Bolsheviks???
> 
> 
>    Hi All, 
> 
>   If this has been discussed here, sorry, just point
> me to the archives. But I am interested in what
> people think MIGHT have been possible in Russia
> without the Bolsheviks, or with a bigger and more
> influencial anarchist presence. The reason I am
> interested, is that a common explanation for the
> decline of the revolution (and the Bolshevik Party)
> was the combination of Russian economic weakness,
> the tiny size of working class and the isolation of
> Russia once the German uprisings of 1919 and 1923
> were defeated (if you can olerate it the 3rd volume
> of Tony Cliff's biography of Lenin is good example
> of this approach). Do people there is any validity
> in these explanations or are they just apologies for
> the Bolsheviks starngulation of the revolution? 
> 
>   Richard
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>
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