Book Review: ‘Karl Marx – The Passionate Logician’

 I have read and am in possession of two of his translations.N. N. Sukhanov, The Russian Revolution: A Personal Record (Oxford, 1955)Dan Theodore, The Origins of Bolshevism (Secker & Warburg, 1964)Sukhanov was a sort of Menshevik and eyewitness to the Russian revolution. The infamous Bolshevik meeting to initiate the October coup was held in his flat whilst he was out; his wife was a Bolshevik. Sukhanov wrote a much more detailed account covering the first 12 months or so; the Carmichael translation and  600 page book is an abridged version of that. In the 1984 addendum he confirms that the bolsheviks had received massive funding from the germans from 1917 to 1918 etc Dan Theodore was a key Menshevik and became its leader from abroad and from the mid 1920’s. Drifted towards a Trotskyist position and wrote a long article/letter to the manchester guardian attacking stalins show trials in 1930’s as they were happening.