[marxmail] Kamenev

2024-09-08 Thread Matt Kelly
Hello, Can anyone recommend a biography of Lev Kamenev in English? Does such a thing even exist? Thanks, Matt Kelly. --- 'In the name of God and of the dead generations from which she receives her old tradition of nationhood, Ireland, through us, summons her children to her flag and st

Re: [marxmail] Kamenev

2024-09-10 Thread Matt Kelly
Hello all, Thanks for all the advice and suggestions. The dissertation by Nicholas Coombs suggested by Alan Ginsberg seems to be the most comprehensive. Available at: https://etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/eprint/7154/ Michael Pugliese pointed out a short article by Catherine Merridale (“The Making o

Re: [marxmail] potatoes and famine

2024-10-21 Thread Matt Kelly
I think we should abandon the phrase 'Irish Potato Famine'. The potato crop, which for a variety of reasons Irish peasants relied upon, failed. Food continued to be exported from the island and little was done by the English colonial government to alleviate the situation. In fact, they thought

[marxmail] Georgi Dimitroff

2024-11-14 Thread Matt Kelly via groups.io
Hello Comrades, Is there a good biography available of Georgi Dimitroff? I’m not interested in a Stalinist hagiography, but he looks like an interesting character. He made his own contribution to the period of Stalinist paranoia and repression of the 1930s, but at the same time intervened when