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Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 21:43:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: Paul Zarembka <zarembka-AT-acsu.buffalo.edu>
Subject: Re: M-I: Pipes on Trotsky


Chris,

Why is such a sentence of any interest unless it is backed up by
documentation? Was it? Also, could Pipes not be interested in prosecuting
Lenin along with Stalin, for his own political purposes (with Trotsky
just a side show for Pipes)?

Paul

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On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Chris Burford wrote:

> Richard Pipes (certainly a witness for the prosecution)
> claims in the blurb for "The Unknown Lenin" Yale 
> University Press 1996
> 
> "Lenin had little regard for Trotsky's judgement on important
> matters and relied heavily on Stalin".
> 
> I wonder if the more intelligent Trotskyist subscribers who have 
> been able to look at Pipes' source material, would concede this
> point. 
> 
> 
> 
> Chris Burford
> London.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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