Ebook: Confronting Deceit: Revisionist Essays on the True Nature of the Soviet Union

This book is a set of essays on various facets of the Soviet Union. The overarching arguments made are several:

Firstly, The Bolsheviks never cared about “labor” in the sense that “labor” refers to the working people of the empire. The Bolsheviks defined “labor” so broadly that it became meaningless. They did not believe it themselves. The Bolsheviks held “labor,” defined above, in utter contempt.

Second, The purpose of the revolution was to use ideology to cover over a radical idea: that the Red state, backed by extreme violence and terror, papered over by slogans, was nothing more than a transmission belt delivering all productive capital into the hands of the new ruling clique. Despite their name, the Bolsheviks were a tiny, urban group of intellectuals who had no ties with the people they were soon to rape and cared little for this fact.

Third, the methods by which this belt was to operate were not controversial. Trotsky, Lenin and Stalin were of one mind on all things, until the Jewish question, personified by Trotsky, became explicit. This by no means requires a belief in Stalin's “antisemitism.” It remained a capital crime in the USSR under his rule. The Old Bolsheviks, almost exclusively Jewish, were the target, not Jews as such, who were a privileged group in the “new Russia.”

Fourth, nationalism of all sorts was banned throughout Soviet history. Western “accusations” of this new-Soviet crime are absurd exaggerations. Several examples of what western academics think “nationalism” is will be shown below.

Fifth, given the above, the USA was never anti-Bolshevik (even to the extent that the western ruling class had any idea what “Bolshevism” was). Almost every early condemnation of the “Reds” was based on them “acting like Tsars.” This was the main line of criticism. It was a rare find to discover an American that had any idea what “Leninism” was to any great extent.

Finally, the USA built the Soviet Union, along with the major western powers, even during their own Depression.

The final two essays are on Russian and Ukrainian resistance literature. The first, from Solzhenitsyn and the second, his Ukrainian counterpart, Vasyl Stus. They round out this collection by providing an up close understanding of the Soviet system, as both men served many years in the camps.