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Stalin with the terror taken out.(Commentary)(Op-Ed)(Political Books)

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From: The Washington Times
Date: 19960529
Author:Beichman, Arnold

Samuel Butler once said: "God though he is omnipotent cannot change the past. Therefore, he created historians."

Having just read "Life and Terror in Stalin's Russia: 1934-1941" (Yale University Press) by Robert W. Thurston, a revisionist American historian, I fully appreciate the ironic wisdom of the 19th century English novelist. The author is associate professor of history at Miami University in Ohio. For years he has busied himself trying to revise "the orthodox view of Stalinism" which, he argues, "may be morally and politically comforting in the West" but is ...

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