We really have been here Keith
Anybody can pick up an unread copy and quote from the convenient line - a totally pointless exercise which I have no intention in taking part in.
Deuscher to a unique approach to the famine which you have ben unable to identify, despite your claims of "having read both"
We went throuhght this interminably, to my eternam shame - why the **** did I bother arguing with someone who as such a crass grasp of hitory as a whole as to write
"Robert Conquest's biography of Stalin has superseded those mentioned by Jim"
History isn't like remakes of movies - historians are seldom, if ever, "superseded" by later ones.
In this case, I mentioned three authors, each bringing unique experiences to the sunbject - Trotsy was a victim of Stalin, Deuscher was a contemporary of the period in question and made a profound of all all the leaders of the Revolution, Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin, and Vinagradov was a Soviet military man turned historian who had full access to the Soviet archives
To suggest that these writers we superseded by anybody is a crass misundertsnding of how history works
You have quoted grabbed hastily-sought pieces to back up an argument on a subject you have proved you knk SFA about
Go away and swat flies or something
Jim Carroll