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Many thanks for the detailed reply.
Lots of interesting stuff here about Trotsky in the 30s.
If I can contribute something, it is a side note, related to is this book
The documents it contains are the correspondence between the Comintern and its informants in Spain. Now, Grover has rightly criticized the book for being misleading. The editor Ronald Radosh is an American communist who turned New Conservative (after spending some time with the New Left...). His choice of book title, comments and introduction to the documents are purposefully inflammatory.
Moreover, the book has received praised from Vanify Fair, NYT and ofc Christopher Hitchens:
>Everything that was ever suspected about the Comintern line in Spain turns out to have been true.
(You can find the quote at the Amazon.com page of the book in the first link.)
Still, several of the documents demonstrate the exact opposite of what the author is claiming, especially that POUM and the anarchists were the parties of choice of the fifth column.
If comrades are interested, I can get into a more detailed discussion of the USSR and Comintern's involvement in the Spanish Civil War. There is good evidence that communist parties around the world and the Soviet leadership did the best they could to help the Spanish Republic (in a very hostile international environment) and that their priorities were military not political aims. But this probably belongs to another thread.
About Japanese, Chinese and German documents on Trotsky in the 1930s, I am not very optimistic for two reasons:
The language barrier (esp. for China and Japan);
And the fact that Trotsky was a minor political figure in the 30s. Any correspondence he and his followers had with states and political movements is most likely marked as low priority and hidden deeply somewhere in the archives. My personal experience from such situations suggests that it is often rather difficult to find what you want in historical archives unless you have good personal connections.
In any case, knowing that Trotsky wrote this in Socialist Appeal in April 1939, at least suggests he saw himself as the new Lenin in 1917 and Stalin as the new Kerensky:
>but for the rape of Soviet Ukraine by the Stalinist bureaucracy there would be no Hitlerite Ukrainian policy [...]
> It is as if Hitler had said to Stalin:“If I were preparing to attack Soviet Ukraine tomorrow I should have kept Carpatho-Ukraine in my own hands.” In reply, Stalin at the 18th Party Congress openly came to Hitler’s defense against the slanders of the “Western Democracies.” Hitler intends to attack the Ukraine? Nothing of the sort! Fight with Hitler? Not the slightest reason for it. Stalin is obviously interpreting the handing over of Carpatho-Ukraine to Hungary as an act of peace.
thx for the lulz, Leo
Source
>it's almost shocking how easily the middle class accepted its own pauperization.
It's extremely shocking, the imperialists have been very clever, because it is a very rare thing in history that middle classes accept their own demise without perpetuating immense violence. Greece is on the front lines and a few incisive commentators are talking about Greece as a new economic model for the rest of the world, like Pinochet's Chile was in 1973. Ramus argues its a [New Financial Imperialism] (http://www.amazon.com/Looting-Greece-Financial-Imperialism-Emerges/dp/0986085340/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1464166425&sr=8-3&keywords=Jack+Rasmus) being born.
Hudson's own book [Killing The Host: How Financial Parasites And Debt Bondage Destroy The Global Economy] (http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=332856D63987132DFA47667E7DB9C1C7) has an excellent series of chapters devoted specifically to Greece. You might recall that in the 70s Hudson's book Super-Imperialism detailed how the US bled the world economy and even its allies dry using the dollar as a weapon.
Unless you don't speak russian it's difficult to find any reliable sources or at least neutral. There are plenty of them in russian but western books are full of disregard and distortions as usual. In 2006, an exhibition of stalinist architecture was held in Europalia, Brussels, and a french/dutch Catalogue raisonné was also published http://botanique.be/fr/expo/les-7-tours-de-moscou-1935-1950
https://www.amazon.fr/Torens-Moskou-1935-1950-Tours-Moscou/dp/9061536162.
Another book concerning soviet urbanism is this https://www.amazon.com/Socialist-Spaces-Sites-Everyday-Eastern/dp/185973538X.
I also recommend you to see the film "New Moscow" https://youtu.be/DRE_nE12m7E and the modern day restoration of VDNKh https://youtu.be/CZ273YrckFc