Notebooks for the Grandchildren

Come to the Red Roundtable at the Prometheus Research Library in New York City, where Marilyn Vogt-Downey, translator and editor of Notebooks for the Grandchildren—Recollections of a Supporter of the Marxist Opposition to Stalin Who Survived the Terror, will speak about Mikhail Baitalsky’s memoir, followed by discussion. Baitalsky was a Ukrainian who came of age fighting for the 1917 proletarian socialist revolution in Russia. Baitalsky recounts the Revolution’s hopes, its tragic unraveling under Stalin, and the Trotskyist Left Opposition’s fight against the political counterrevolution. Baitalsky survived to tell the story of what happened.