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Lenin's Final Fight: Speeches and Writings, 1922-23The popular masses of the Ukrainian people
have exploded onto the world political stage. Eyes everywhere in
the world are on this development. So much history of resistance and struggle against the Czarist Russian boot, the Great Russian chauvinist
boot of the Stalin regime and now the boot of
Putin's regime. This interesting book talks about
Lenin's last fight, the political battle against Stalin.
Internationalism Or Russification?: A Study In The Soviet Nationalities ProblemOne source, Wikipedia, describes the spread
of this book and its contents. While I do not vouch
for the below assessments, I does explain
the importance of the work in analyzing the
counter-revolutionary, anti-working class, reactionary
and non-Marxist policy of the Stalin bureaucracy
Many of the Putin regime's rationalizations
for its plans to seize Ukraine are rooted in Stalin's policies.
"The work Internationalism or Russification? spread in the samizdat, and in February, 1968 it was published in the magazine The Contemporary (Сучасність). Without permission and knowledge of the author the book was repeatedly issued outside of the Soviet Union in Ukrainian, English, Russian, Chinese French and Italian languages. In Ukraine, this work was legally published only in 1990 in the magazine Motherland (Вітчизна), and as a book it was first published in 1998."
and...
"In the work Internationalism or Russification?, written under the influence of those events, Dziuba analyzed from a Marxist position the national and cultural policy of the Soviet Union in Ukraine. The author sent his work to the first Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, Petro Shelest, and to the Head of the Ukrainian SSR government, Volodymyr Shcherbytsky, and its Russian translation - to the leadership of Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU).
In Internationalism or Russification? Dziuba argued that during Joseph Stalin's rule the CPSU had moved to the positions of Russian chauvinism. His argumentation the author built largely on quotations from the works of Vladimir Lenin and party documents of the 1920s. He believed that the policy of the CPSU, particularly in Ukraine, contradicts with the fundamental interests of the Ukrainian people and contended that the solution is in returning to Lenin's principles of national policy."
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2..."Rise of an Oligarch" is a new novel telling the fictional life story of how a Ukrainian oligarch made his fortune, starting from nothing in communist USSR. A parallel plot reveals a dark conspiracy around the independence of Ukraine. The story is funny and dramatic, full of sex, drugs and violence. A theme throughout the book is whether Ukraine is indeed independent and who controls it – oligarchs, corrupted state official, the Russians. Very relevant to current developments in Ukraine.
This book has a compellingly interesting article by Leon Trotsky entitled "Independence of the Ukraine and Sectarian Muddle Heads" on page 50, written in 1930. So many of the arguments put forward today against Ukrainian Independence are taken up by Trotsky in this article. It may surprise many to see what a real Bolshevik--not a Stalinist--thought about the imperative of Ukrainian independence.