Mustafa Suphi From Darkness to Light

Mustafa Suphi From Darkness to Light Book Description Ahmet Kardam points out that although Mustafa Suphi, the founding leader of the Communist Party of Turkey, was mythologized as the victim-hero of a "glorious history", his ideas and policies were erased from memory, and the effects of the efforts to smear and obscure him continue to this day. In this book, he tries to draw the real portrait of Suphi. What was the content of Mustafa Suphi's "nationalism" and "Turkism" before 1915? During his three-year struggle in Soviet Russia between 1918 and 1920, did he only write "propaganda" articles, was he just a "man of action", or was he a self-developed personality? Did he have specific views? On which issues did he have different views from the Bolshevik Party leadership? Why did the Communist International invalidate the founding congress of the TKP organized by him? What was his view on the Ankara government and Mustafa Kemal? How did he envision the socialist revolution in Turkey? What did he do concretely, how did he act? A lively and thought-provoking political-intellectual biography about an important figure not only of the Turkish left, but of Turkish history. (From the Promotional Bulletin)