Posted by Duncan on January 28, 2013 at 01:11:37 user Duncan.
In Reply to: Re: Nancy based on Lenin?! posted by JB on January 27, 2013 at 04:52:03:
I suppose the way to read those quotations as Ransome making arguments to support the policy of appeasement and framing the argument in a way that he thought would convince his mother... I do think his writing does suggest that he was appalled by what happened to his friends at the hands of Stalin, and therefore I don't think he had any illusions about Stalinist Russia. I suspect he almost sees it as a counter-revolution against the Bolsheviks as he uses the language of Tsarism to describe Stalinism in his autobiography (the "little father" and so on).