REVIEW ARTICLE 81 failed to find in Stalin any notable distinguishing marks had some justification. Few great men have been so conspicuously as Stalin the product of the time and place in which they lived.12 NOTES AND REFERENCES 1. Except from T.S. Eliot's 'Gerontion', Faber and Faber, London 1954, pp. 51-54. 2. It should be obvious to the reader that I am referring half-jocularly to one of Stalin's famous works strangely enough not quoted by the author. Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR, M. 1953 where he refers to the 'errors of Comrade Yaroshenko and the other errors of Comrade Yaroshenkou'. According to my esteemed Ukranian colleague Andrei Vemikov, Yaroshanko was still alive till quite late and earlier both Stalin and Yaroshanko gave interviews and both were wrong! This puts paid to the hypothesis that Yaroshenko was a fictitious figure created by Stalin! 3. More precisely 'medium rich capitalist farmers, money-lenders, etc. Literally in Russian, 'Kulak' means 'clinched fist'—implying their socio-political as well as their economic power. 4. A.J.P. Taylor; Illustrated History of the Second World War, London, 1989. Taylor says 'I have consulted all possible sources and ... the second World War was a good war. My country fought on the right side...' 5. See Gunter Minnrup: 'GDR's frozen revolution' New Left Review, April-June 1982. 6. G. Munnerup, opxit. 7. Ibid. 8. Taylor, op.cit. He says one of the myths created by history was that the Yalta conference earmarked the so-called 'spheres of influence'—between Eastern and Western Europe! 9. A well-known as a scholarly and non-dogmatic work. 10. Danies says 'the view that no industrialization however at the pace between 1929 and 1936 was incompatible with a market relationship between the state and the peasantry' (1980, p. XV), similarly in his 1989 work: Soviet History in the Gorbachev Revolution, he points out the ambitious 1929 FYP was being prepared in various drafts as early as 1927 and that contemporary historians of the Gorbachev period are all wrong. In condemning Stalin, Ward makes no reference to this fact. 11. See 'Drop the Glass Industry'. Collaborating with E.H. Cair by R.W. Davies, New Left Review, June 1984. 12. Carr, E.H., Socialism in One Country, 1924-26, Vol. 1, pp. 189-202. Incidentally, at the end of each chapter Ward has provided of essential readings which are very useful. Thus I have kept the notes and references to the minimum.