Lerner1970, p. 115. His claim that John Reed died of disillusion at the Baku Congress rather than of the diagnosed typhus (p. 104) is pure fantasy. Lerner’s book was published by Stanford University Press which, in the post-McCarthy period, produced such important studies as Robert Wohl’s history of the early years of the French Communist Party and John M Cammett’s study of Gramsci (Wohl 1966; Cammett 1967). Though the research was doubtless encouraged for Cold- War purposes, this was measured work committed to the principle of knowing the enemy. It is hard to imagine the USA of today producing such intelligent work on the history of Islam.
6
Tuck1988, pp. 62, 113.
7
Nettl1966, p. 471.
9
See also Nettl1966, II, pp. 569–74, 586–8.
10
Lenin1966, p. 335. It is a pity this letter was not made available at the time of the Algerian War to the French soldiers who were told by the French Communist Party that they were in breach of their ‘Leninist’ obligations if they deserted or evaded conscription.
12
Rosmer1987, p. 70.
13
Serge2001, p. 611.
15
Rosmer1987, pp. 87, 122.
16
Carr1986, p. 32.
17
Richardson1995, pp. 19, 76.
21
Broué2005, p. 550.
22
Radek1923.
24
Cliff1979, pp. 168–72. For a critique of Cliff’s position which still sees the Schlageter speech as an ‘error’, see Harman 1982, pp. 253–4.
25
Broué2005, p. 730.
27
Broué2005, p. 725.
28
Broué2005, p. 726.
29
Cliff1979, p. 169.
30
It was Zinoviev who, in1924, first invented the position, made notorious by Stalin in the early 1930s, that social democracy had now ‘become merely a wing of fascism’ (p. 501). Anyone who advocated such an inanity clearly could have no grasp of either the united front or the problem of fascism.
31
Rosmer1987, p. 207.
32
Broué2005, p. 728.
33
For a contemporary account see Serge2000, pp. 77–81.
36
Serge2000, p. 127.
37
Rosmer1987, pp. 222–6. At the time Rosmer wrote a vigorous defence of Radek, sharply criticising his Social-Democratic critics. Rosmer 2000.
38
Lenin1964, p. 63.
39
Retzlaw1972, p. 258. I am grateful to Einde O’Callaghan for this reference.
40
Broué2005, pp. 889–98.
41
Trotsky1946, p. 376.
43
Retzlaw1972, p. 358.
44
See Marie2001, pp. 597–606.
45
Gorky et al.1977, pp. 153, 151.
46
Joyce1934. When I was a schoolboy, it was commonly rumoured that the best (i.e. most salacious) bit of Ulysses was the last forty pages and that we should turn directly to them. Apparently, Radek had done the same.
