Bolshevism, the civil war, and Stalinism
A review of Samuel Farber, Before Stalinism (Polity Press, 1990), re-posted from here.
Sam Farber, justly respected for his critical Marxist writings on Cuba, sums up his attitude in this book by quoting Victor Serge, an anarchist who rallied to the Bolsheviks after October 1917, became an activist in the Left Opposition, and then parted ways with Trotsky over his, Sergeâs, rejection of Trotskyâs criticisms of the POUM in the Spanish Civil War.