On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 02:25 PM, Andrew Stewart wrote:

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/09/24/the-tragedy-of-stephen-f-cohen-and-the-bolshevik-revolution/

This is an extreme mis-reading of Cohen's biography of Bukharin and - I believe - a mis-reading of Bukharin's views and proposals re: the Soviet economy in the mid-late 1920s. In Stewart's essay, the word "peasant" does not appear; yet the peasant and the peasant's market was the centerpiece of the economic dilemmas confronted by Lenin, Bukharin, and - by 1928 - Stalin.  I encourage people to read Cohen's fine biography, which is also a useful narrative of Soviet history throughout the 1920s.