About the Author:

SobhanlalDatta Gupta (1948), former SurendraNath Banerjee Professor of Political Science, University of Calcutta, has an abiding interest in the political and intellectual history of Marxism. Some of his recentworks include Comintern and the Destiny of Communism in India: Dialectics of Real and a Possible History (Kolkata: Seribaan, 2006; revised and enlarged edition in 2011)[A Malayalam version published in 2010 and a German version in 2013], The Ryutin Platform(Stalin and the Crisis of Proletarian Dictatorship) (ed.) (Kolkata: Seribaan 2010), Marxism in Dark Times: Select Essays for the New Century (Delhi, London, New York:Anthem Press, 2012) and The Socialist Vision and the Silenced Voices of Democracy. Part I :Rosa Luxemburg (Kolkata:Seribaan, 2015).