Richard B. Day

The blackmail of the single alternative: Bukharin, Trotsky and Perestrojka

The problem of the single alternative is one of the most important of our time. It most adequately expresses the experience of the Stalinist era .... The whole complex of recent political and intellectual attempts at the ideological renaissance of the revolu tionary Left. .. may be characterized as an attempt to break through the traditional Stalinist blackmail of a single alternative in political life.1