can anyone recommend a biography of Stalin and of Ho Chi Minh?
Nicholas D. replied:
I would read this first before reading other general histories of stalinism and biographies of stalin.It is probably near Trotsky's best work (In the words of the Trotskyist Linda Tenenbaum at a recent meeting of the SEP recently) https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1936/revbet/ or this version in hardcopy which i prefer with a very good introduction by David North:http://mehring.com/revolution-betrayed.html