Stalin: History & Critique of a Black Legend w/ Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro & David Peat

Guerrilla History

Henry

History, Education

4.8 • 622 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2023

⏱️ 158 minutes

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Special, early access to an extended conversation about the imminent release of the new translation (by Henry and Salvatore) of Domenico Losurdo's Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend from Iskra Books. The release of the book is imminent, and is available from the Iskra Books website, where it is currently linked at https://www.iskrabooks.org/copy-of-the-dark.

Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro is Professor at the Geography Department of SUNY New Paltz and is chief editor for the journal Capitalism Nature Socialism. His book Socialist States and the Environment is available from Pluto Press: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745340418/socialist-states-and-the-environment/. You can also find the journal Capitalism Nature Socialism for more invaluable anti-capitalist environmental perspectives: http://www.cnsjournal.org/.

David Peat is one of the editorial board members at the Center for Communist Studies and their imprint Iskra Books. You can follow him on twitter @dajveism.

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0:00.0	You don't remember Den Ben Boo?
0:09.0	No!
0:10.0	The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa.
0:14.0	They didn't have anything but a rank.
0:17.0	The French had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare.
0:22.9	But they put some guerrilla action on.
0:33.5	Hello and welcome to guerrilla history, the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history, and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present.
0:39.8	I'm one of your usual co-hosts, Henry Huckimacki, unfortunately not joined by either one of my co-hosts as they both had things
0:45.9	come up at the last minute. So unfortunately, we will not be joined by Professor Adnan Hussein,
0:51.3	who of course is historian and director of the School of Religion at Queen's University, or Brett O'Shea, who also, of course, is the host of Revolutionary Left Radio and co-host of the Red Menace podcast.
1:01.9	We're definitely going to miss them for the conversation, but we're hoping to get a very similar conversation to this on Rev Left Radio with Brett in the mix as well very, very soon. So stay tuned for that,
1:14.2	hopefully. I just want to remind the listeners before I introduce or have our guests introduce
1:20.6	themselves and we talk about the topic that you can follow Gorilla History on Twitter at
1:24.6	Gorilla underscore Pod, G-U-E-R-R-I-L-A-U-L-A-U-Skore
1:28.7	Pod, and you can help support the show and help us keep doing what we do by going to
1:33.9	Patreon.com forward slash guerrilla history. Again, Gorilla being spelled G-U-E-R-R-I-L-A
1:40.6	history. Now, for today, we have a really special topic, special for me, at least, because
1:47.3	it's a project that I was involved in. And I'm really happy that my two biggest collaborators
1:53.5	on this project are also here with me. So the topic is going to be the imminent release of a new
2:00.8	translation of Domenico Losorto's
2:02.8	Stalin history and critique of a black legend, which is going to be coming out from
2:06.7	Iskra Books on July 1st, uh, co-translated and edited and with a foreword by myself and
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