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Trotsky’s sins of omission
A new edition of Leon Trotsky’s biography of Joseph Stalin has literary and historical merit, says ANDREW MURRAY, but it is remarkable more for what is missed out than what is included
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FIONA O’CONNOR is bowled over by a stunning Welsh language drama
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MATTHEW HAWKINS explores the initiatives proposed by HEALING ARTS SCOTLAND
ALEX HALL welcomes an analysis of how modern capitalism is deeply intertwined with emotions, and their manipulation
Stalin by Leon Trotsky
Edited and translated
by Alan Woods
(Wellred Books, £25)
STALINISM and Trotskyism appear to be back in vogue.
Their shrouds are being waved — entryism here, a purge there — to terrify bystanders to the struggle over the future of the Labour Party.
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