Lousy night in Georgia
Eric Lee predictably and wrongly seizes on my recent review on the Russian civil war to rehash fairy tales about Georgia’s Menshevik government ( Solidarity 642 , 27 July 2022). Lee’s apologetics ignore the reality of the period – include materials from his own book, The Experiment (2017). Rather than put the Russian civil war in its international context, he prefers the fantasy oasis of social democracy in one country. In October 1917, the Bolsheviks led the working class to make a socialist revolution in Russia. They led a revolutionary workers’ government. The Bolsheviks faced White...