Reading Blackshirts & Reds and am at about 40% through the book. The amount of critique he is giving to how poorly the economic situation in the USSR was, how Stalin’s way of running things and how people were negligible about their jobs because there was no reason to be competitive or to do a good job is honestly a bit stark. Is this anti-communism or is this just good faith criticism?
Black Shirts and Reds was published in 1997. The USSR dissolved in 1991.
He’s trying to grapple with the legacy of the Soviet Union and figure out where things went wrong.