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1 SovArch I -- rank: 1000

... cwihplib.nsf/e7b8938c6eedaba4852564a7007a887a/577262b2024c7b d9852564bb006a024a?OpenDocument Ah, here they are. Stalin seems to have kept Kim Il Sung on a very ... short leash until January 1950. Only on January 30 does Stalin say that he is "ready to help," and only after ... Kim Il Sung increase... To Attack, or Not to Attack?: Stalin, Kim Il Sung, and the Prelude to War by Kathryn ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 29 17:36:33 PST 1998

2 Whence Stalin's popularity? -- rank: 911

... RADIO INTERVIEW WITH ROI MEDVEDEV, HISTORIAN AND WRITER, ON JOSEPH STALIN [EKHO MOSKVY RADIO, 14:00, MARCH 5, 2003] SOURCE: FEDERAL ... what? It's the 50th anniversary since the death of Stalin. And I would begin by asking you to comment on ... citizens. More than half of Russians -- 53 percent -- think that Stalin played a positive role in the country's life. A ...

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Author:	ChrisD(RJ)
Date:	Tue Mar 11 06:06:43 PST 2003

3 Khrushchev and Stalin -- rank: 891

10. WHY DID KHRUSHCHEV SURVIVE STALIN? SOURCE. William Taubman, Khrushchev: The Main and His Era. New ... that puzzled Khrushchev himself. Why did he survive to challenge Stalin's legacy (or part of it at least) when so many Soviet officials perished at Stalin's hand? Did he survive because he had no doubts about Stalin or disagreements with his policies until after Stalin died? Or because he succeeded in concealing from Stalin any such doubts or disagreements? Was it because even ...

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Author:	ChrisD(RJ)
Date:	Tue Mar 18 00:21:57 PST 2003

4 (Lenin/Stalin/Nicholas (was: Re: [lbo-talk] Appeal to Ignorance) -- rank: 872

> > --- Peter Lavelle <untimely_thoughts at yahoo.com> > wrote: > > > > > Stalin is a very different question. The peoples > of > > the Soviet Union defeated Hitler - with or without > > Stalin's "help." When Russians can agree on this, > a > > healthly ... you think of John Dolan's review of Service's Stalin bio in he eXile? It was oddly compelling. An Ordinary Joe By John Dolan ( dolan at exile.ru ) "Stalin: A Biography"-by Robert Service Harvard University Press 2004 The ... 1930s, the visitor shook her head and said solemnly, "That Stalin has a lot to answer for." Which is true enough ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sun Jun 19 04:30:11 PDT 2005

5 [lbo-talk] TV series on Stalin divides Russian audience -- rank: 852

... who plays Beria looks just like him, and they do Stalin's georgian accent well. Los Angeles Times March 30, 2007 TV series on Stalin divides Russian audience Critics see an effort to whitewash the ... great nation. By David Holley, Times Staff Writer MOSCOW ­ Josef Stalin is speaking to his son Yakov, who has just telephoned ... with dignity. And you must be confident that your father, Stalin, will do everything for our victory." The poignant scene ­ for ... it ­ is part of a controversial 40-episode TV drama, "Stalin Live," now airing on a nationwide network h

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sun Apr 1 07:17:46 PDT 2007

6 [lbo-talk] Georgia -- Stalinostan! -- rank: 852

... Telegraphic Agency Some elderly Georgian Jews have fond memories of Stalin By Michael J. Jordan GORI, Georgia, Feb. 14 (JTA) ­ Schalva ... in his commander in chief ­ the notorious Soviet dictator, Josef Stalin, who was born there. Mamistvalov is one of a rare ... Jew apologetic, even nostalgic, for the iron-fisted ways of Stalin. This sent

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sat Feb 25 07:36:07 PST 2006

7 Stalin, literary critic -- rank: 829

... of human souls A dictator with a passion for Balzac, Stalin was an erratic, if fearsome, judge of Russian literary talent ... survived his reign, and those who fell by the wayside. Stalin once, famously, called writers "the engineers of human souls". It ... unforgettable: its author could not have been insensitive to literature. Stalin, of course, did massive human-engineering works, tinkering not perhaps ...

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Author:	ChrisD(RJ)
Date:	Sun Mar 2 23:00:29 PST 2003

8 [lbo-talk] Stalin, democrat -- rank: 818

... I am sure I still have somewhere, called The Essential Stalin, in which Franklin defends the purge trials of the 30s, denies or justifies the Stalin terror, and generally whitewashes the evil sonofabitch and his crimes ... this being the USSR, > a bottle of vodka > > Of course Stalin was a cruel tyrant who, among hsi > othe

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Sun Dec 4 05:29:07 PST 2005

9 Stalin's legacy -- rank: 804

pravda.ru March 6, 2003 Stalin's Legacy: Russia's Cross or Salvation? The 50th anniversary of Joseph Stalin's death was certainly touched upon by the Russian mass ... are more interested to know what was going on in Stalin's cottage in Kuntsevo and was it possible that some ... leader. However, now we can say whatever we wish about Stalin. But nevertheless, it is an obvious fact that there are ... and more people who positively estimate the role of Joseph Stalin in the history of the state. According to the last ... for Public Opinion (VCIOM), 53% of the questioned think that Stalin's role in the history o

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Author:	ChrisD(RJ)
Date:	Thu Mar 6 06:03:52 PST 2003

10 Russia: With Hindsight People See Stalin As Positive Leader -- rank: 791

Russia: With Hindsight People See Stalin As Positive Leader By Gregory Feifer This week (5 March), Russia marks the 50th anniversary of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's death. The watershed moment changed world history, putting an ... Party. But as RFE/RL reports, Russians today increasingly see Stalin as a positive figure in their country's past. Moscow ... our teacher and leader, humanity's great genius, Josef Vissarionovich Stalin, has come to the end of its path." These were ... of the 20th century: funeral ceremonies for Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, who died on 5 March of that year. Tearful millions ...

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Author:	ChrisD(RJ)
Date:	Tue Mar 4 23:10:42 PST 2003

11 the contribution of the communist party -- rank: 784

... s leaflet vintage 1967? Actually, the words are by Joseph Stalin, from "Foundations to Leninism". That Stalin could represent himself as the foremost Marxist thinker in the ...

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Author:	Louis Proyect
Date:	Thu Aug 6 08:29:08 PDT 1998

12 [lbo-talk] Stalin -- rank: 777

... Montefiori's book, and I don't remember anything about Stalin being in constant physical pain. Maybe late in life when he was sick? Stalin did have a somewhat withered leg and arm on one ... for a couple of weeks.) Re: The latest "we love Stalin poll": Novye Izvestia December 22, 2004 THE TYRANT WHO IS ALWAYS WITH US Stalin still divides the people of Russia into irreconcilable camps Yesterday was the 125th anniversary of Stalin's birth Author: Sergei Tkachuk [from WPS Monitoring Agency, www ... Analytical Center did a poll in the lead-up to Stalin's birthday. It found that a third of respondents ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Fri Dec 24 08:26:36 PST 2004

13 Uncle Joe Stalin, Doodler -- rank: 770

... RUSSIA http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/ I assume. Joseph Stalin, one of the 20th century's most ruthless dictators Stalin drew cartoons of his victims' fate Mark Franchetti, Moscow Killing joke: Bryukhanov as drawn by Stalin in about 1930. He was executed in 1938 NEWLY discovered ... cartoons and doodles believed to have been drawn by Joseph Stalin could provide an unusual insight into the mind of one ... a historian and member of the Russian academy of sciences, Stalin used to draw offensive sketches of some of his victims ... while attending politburo meetings. In one cartoon, which Ilizarov believes Stalin drew around 1930, his finance minister, Nikolai Bryukhanov, is ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Fri Jul 13 18:08:46 PDT 2001

14 [lbo-talk] Edmund Wilson on Stalin -- rank: 770

... Republic unearthed an April 1936 piece by Edmund Wilson on Stalin from its archives. It's subscriber-only. An excerpt.] THE GLORIFICATION OF Stalin is undoubtedly one of the things in Russia which affects ... paper comes out almost every day with a photograph of Stalin on the front page, either standing with a distinguished visitor ... speech and important public document ends with a tribute to Stalin, like the prayer at the end of a sermon. Stalin is plastered all over the place, and even genuinely popular ... spoke of this to a Russian, I was told that Stalin himself did not like it. And since I have ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Dec 10 12:06:31 PST 2011

15 [lbo-talk] Anybody interested in Roy Medvedev? -- rank: 761

... Nikita Khrushchev, in which he denounced the actions of Joseph Stalin. It was the first major break by Soviet leadership from ... the Communist Party of the Soviet Union closer to Leninism. Stalin was condemned for violating Leninist principles and Communist Party norms ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Fri Mar 24 06:15:45 PST 2006