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Fri, 23 Jan 1998 05:33:14 -0500 (EST)
Gunder Frank (agfrank@chass.utoronto.ca)

see my just previous 2 cents worth first please
gunder frank

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Andre Gunder Frank
University of Toronto
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Toronto, ON Fax. 1 416 972-0071
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My home Page is at: http://www.whc.neu.edu/whc/resrch&curric/gunder.html

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Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 11:14:08 -0500 (EST)
From: Gunder Frank <agfrank@chass.utoronto.ca>
To: David Johnson <davidjohnson@erols.com>
michael Ellman <ELLMAN@butler.fee.uva.nl>,
agf <agfrank@chass.utoronto.ca>,
Pat Lauderdale <ATPLL@asuvm.inre.asu.edu>,
Annemarie Olivero <pqranna@IMAP1.ASU.EDU>,
Albert J Bergesen <albert@U.Arizona.EDU>
Subject: more

Dear David.
Since i am now on your weekly summary, I do not know if you posted my
'contributuion' of a couple of days ago or not. Either way, I now write
to say that I got distracted and therefore neglected to add in re my own
'predictive' and 'censorship' experiences paralleling those of Ray
Smith, the following 2 items:

ITEM 1:
In my "The East European Revolution of 1989" published several times,
among them in ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL WEEKLY in Bombay
on February 3, 1990 I wrote and published inter alia

"the 'imperial' reach of the Soviet Union is under effective political
challenge due principally to economic failure, and the 'Union' may
effectively break up"

This same article was also published in the LAST issue of
PROBLEMS OF PEACE AND SOCIALISM [Prague] No. 381, 5, 1990 at least in its
English, French and Russian Language editions.

At least in the Russian language edition i have before me, this sentence
and some preceeding ones were however OMITTED.
Moreover, the Russian translation of my title was
"The EVENTS of 1989"
rather than my original "The REVOLUTION of l989"

The Editor in Chief had previously told me that he could NOT publish
anything of mine in this CP house organ, since various CP Party
representatives on his editorial board vetoed publication of anything by
me.
He decided on the publication of this article by me however, as he later
told me, because after all this was to be the LAST issue in the life of
the magazine.

The editor was none other than our friend and your regular DJL
contributor STANISLAV MENSHIKOV.

ITEM 2:
regarding my "Economic Ironies in Europe: A World Economic Interpretation
of East-West European Politics"
published in UNESCO International Social Science Journal XLIV, 1, 1992
I added the folowing "author's note" to the reprints:

"My reference was to '[ex]Soviet Union' in the original of this article,
which was written late Spring and revised early October 1991. Over my
express objections, UNESCO edited and deleted out the 'ex' for
[diplomatic?] reasons of its own"

Submitted for the record

gunder frank
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Andre Gunder Frank
University of Toronto
96 Asquith Ave Tel. 1 416 972-0616
Toronto, ON Fax. 1 416 972-0071
CANADA M4W 1J8 Email agfrank@chass.utoronto.ca

My home Page is at: http://www.whc.neu.edu/whc/resrch&curric/gunder.html

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