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16 Whence Stalin's popularity? -- rank: 761

... INDICATE THAT 36% OF RESPONDENTS STILL BELIEVE THAT "ON BALANCE, STALIN DID MORE GOOD THAN BAD FOR THE COUNTRY". POLITICAL ANALYST SERGEI MARKOV DISCUSSES WHAT THE IMAGE OF STALIN MEANS FOR RUSSIAN CITIZENS, FIFTY YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH. RESULTS ... REVELATIONS, 36% OF RESPONDENTS STILL BELIEVE THAT "ON BALANCE, JOSEF STALIN DID MORE GOOD THAN BAD FOR THE COUNTRY". WHY ARE ... ALL TIMES AND PEOPLES"? Question: How would you account for Stalin's continuing popularity with a relatively sizeable part of the ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 6 05:49:55 PST 2003

17 [lbo-talk] stalin vs. hitler, the comic book -- rank: 746

... edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=141721057558202 Gabriel Gorodetsky. Grand Delusion: Stalin and the German Invasion of Russia. New Haven: Yale University ... University. Published by H-Russia (June, 2003) Icebreaker or Titanic? Stalin's Foreign Policy, 1939-1941 In the summer of 1995 ... our many conversations, he surprised me with the assertion that Stalin was, of course, responsible for the rise of Adolf Hitler ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 11 10:03:05 PDT 2003

18 [lbo-talk] Book Recommendation: The Young Stalin -- rank: 727

... s true. The avant-garde really got a boost under > Stalin.... robert wood > He was a teenager then. He grew out ... of knights and poets. The poems in Iveria, published undet Stalin's nickname "Soselo," were widely read and became minor Georgian ... the best Georgian poetry before anyone had ever heard of "Stalin." Deda Ena, a children's anthology of Georgian verse, produced between 1912 and the 1960s, included Stalin's first poem -- "Morning" in its 1916 edition. It remained in subsequent editions, sometimes ascribed to Stalin, sometimes not, up to the days of Brezhnev. Dtalin's ...

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Date:	Sat Jul 7 11:56:35 PDT 2007

19 [lbo-talk] Stalin lives by Roy Medvedev -- rank: 727

Daily Times Tuesday, May 03, 2005 VIEW: Stalin lives Roy A Medvedev What can Russians be proud of ... the 60th anniversary of its victory over Nazi Germany, marking Stalin s role in that victory is proving to be damnably ...

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Date:	Tue May 3 13:38:56 PDT 2005

20 [lbo-talk] Josef Stalin: Strange Attractor -- rank: 718

... on pen-l, posts there alot. And remember as a Stalin-era slogan had it, "Everyday, Life Is Getting More Joyous ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Sun Jul 27 15:34:34 PDT 2003

21 [lbo-talk] Why Russians "Love" Stalin -- rank: 709

... Andrei Tsygankov <andrei at sfsu.edu> Subject: Why Russians "Love" Stalin As Russia continues to consolidate its post-Soviet statehood and ... repressions. Among those signs is a growing popularity of Josef Stalin, associated with an anti-Western isolationism and a terror against ... Some polls find that almost half of Russians believe that Stalin played a positive role in history and that more than ... inside Russia too are fearful that population’s support for Stalin may lead to further cultivation of an external enemy’s ...

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22 The Problem of the Popular Front Re:lbo-talk-digest V1 #6234 -- rank: 709

... www.owu.edu/~jawaldma//stalin1.html Introduction to The Essential Stalin: Major Theoretical Writings, 1905-52 by Bruce Franklin (Garden City ... 1972), pp. 1-38. I used to think of Joseph Stalin as a tyrant and butcher who jailed and killed millions ... the world. Even today I have trouble saying the name Stalin without feeling a bit sinister. But, to about a billion people today, Stalin is the opposite of what we

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Date:	Fri May 31 11:29:23 PDT 2002

23 [lbo-talk] MORE ALIVE THAN MANY OF THE LIVING (Stalin) -- rank: 709

... OF THE LIVING Half of poll respondents still influenced by Stalin's cult of personality Several polling agencies investigate attitudes to Stalin Author: Vladlen Maksimov [Saturday, March 5, marks the 52nd anniversary of Stalin's death. For some, this is a sad day; for ... fifty split in Russian society with regard to opinions about Stalin.] Saturday, March 5, marks the 52nd anniversary of Stalin's death. For some, this is a sad day; for ... fifty split in Russian society with regard to opinions about Stalin. The Bashkirov and Partners polling agency reports that 47% ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 5 07:21:46 PST 2005

24 FW: "Comrades up in arms" (Stalin Society) -- rank: 709

... in arms" >Johann Hari, New Statesman >Monday, June 10, 2002 > >Stalin still exerts a strange hold over some, not least Arthur Scargill. >Johann Hari attends a Stalin Society meeting > >Comrade Chairman is very angry. His body is ... our >own house in order! To read lies about Comrade Stalin in the capitalist >bourgeois press is to be expected - but ... a distant tyranny: it's a meeting of the >British Stalin Society on a sunny Sunday morning. > >Some might see Stalinism ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 17 12:02:57 PDT 2002

25 [lbo-talk] Stalin/Hitler the same? -- rank: 709

Here's a comparison between Hitler and Stalin, condensed a bit from Isaac Deutscher's Political Biography of Stalin (published in the late 1940s). To state the obvious, this does not justify Stalin, it only contributes to the refutation of the claim that Stalin and Hitler were the same, a piece of the psy ... yes--classless, free association of producers, no. ------------------- The similarities between Stalin and Hitler are numerous and striking. Each of them suppressed ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 18 16:54:57 PDT 2005

26 Russian activists concerned about public revival of Stalin cult o f personality -- rank: 700

Stalin is very popular among poor people. Most popular Russian leader ... Georgia, but anyway). Russian activists concerned about public revival of Stalin cult of personality MOSCOW. Feb 20 (Interfax) - A group of human rights activists and historians believes that the Stalin personality cult is experiencing a revival in the Russian public ... Participants named as an indication of the ideological rehabilitation of Stalin numerous recent publications hailing him as the leader of all times and nations. Among the books on Stalin they singled out the series "50 Years Without the Leader ... Stalingrad to Volgograd brought on by the [50th] anniversary of Stalin's death [on

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Date:	Mon Feb 24 05:28:55 PST 2003

27 Beria, democrat, was: Re: [lbo-talk] Stalin, democrat -- rank: 700

... now-standard bio of Beria is by Amy Knight: Beria, Stalin's First Lieutenant. http://www.pupress.princeton.edu/titles/5279 ... serial rapist -- that he was, in the brief period after Stalin's death and before his own execution, a genuine reformer ... that Beria tried to position himself as a reformer after Stalin died, though not as a Gorbachevite. It's also true ...

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Date:	Sat Dec 3 22:16:40 PST 2005

28 [lbo-talk] Stalin's image, was: Re: great moments in the history of ... -- rank: 689

... the revo. It is puzzling why Trotsky didn't use Stalin's gangster past against him. It's possible he thought ... or couldn't make it fit into his picture of Stalin as a dull but cunning bureaucrat mastermind. My late grandmother ...

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29 Russian perceptions of Stalin. -- rank: 689

... the stupidest headline I've seen in a long time. Stalin's popularity is very high among people who lived during his reign. Russians differ in their opinions about Stalin - poll MOSCOW. Feb 27 (Interfax) - Some 36% of Russians think Joseph Stalin did more good than bad for the country. 29% think ... 1,500 respondents on February 22. The 50th anniversary of Stalin's death will be marked on March 5. 61% of respondents accused Stalin of large-scale repression and "genocide of his own people ... one another, and there was no freedom of speech" in Stalin's times. 3% accused him for the country's ...

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30 [lbo-talk] TV series on Stalin divides Russian audience -- rank: 689

... 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 ...

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Date:	Sun Apr 1 08:43:37 PDT 2007