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151 [lbo-talk] TV series on Stalin divides Russian audience -- rank: 562

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > > > > > Stalin's admirers insist that his achievements > > outweigh his faults. Among them is David > > Giorgobiani, the Georgian actor who plays Stalin in > > the series. Note how close this is to arguments ... course from the beginning capitalism was capable of a destructiveness Stalin could only dream of. Carrol

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Sun Apr 1 09:22:29 PDT 2007

152 [lbo-talk] TV series on Stalin divides Russian audience -- rank: 562

... 4/1/07, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote: > > > Stalin's admirers insist that his achievements > > > outweigh his faults. Among them is David > > > Giorgobiani, the Georgian actor who plays Stalin in > > > the series. > > Note how close this is to arguments ... course from the beginning capitalism was capable of a > destructiveness Stalin could only dream of. Ah, but there's no equivalence ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sun Apr 1 10:28:09 PDT 2007

153 [lbo-talk] Cross in memory of Stalin repression victims placed in Moscow -- rank: 562

Cross in memory of Stalin repression victims placed in Moscow MOSCOW, August 7 (Itar-Tass ... killed during Great Terror tide ordered by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin in 1937. The foundation for the across are stones that ... Canal, most of which was built by people convicted in Stalin repressions on the “political article”. Moscow met its with bell ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Tue Aug 7 10:21:40 PDT 2007

154 [lbo-talk] Book Recommendation: The Young Stalin -- rank: 562

... s true. The avant-garde really got a boost under Stalin.... robert wood Really, that Trotsky-derived image of Stalin > as a grey philistine has got to be dropped. He ... all, and the description says more about > Trotsky than about Stalin IMO. > > Anyway, this is a great book. Anybody interested in ...

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Author:	wrobert at uci.edu
Date:	Sat Jul 7 11:20:08 PDT 2007

155 [lbo-talk] Stalin, democrat -- rank: 562

... well known in Russia, where respect for, even admiration of, Stalin is common. Yuri Zhukov, the main Russian historian who sets forth the paradigm of "Stalin as Democrat" and whose works are the most important single ... although I have met many people in Russia who appraise Stalin positively (usually with reservations), I have never heard anyone describe ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sat Dec 3 15:32:52 PST 2005

156 [lbo-talk] Stalin the Nutjob -- rank: 562

... No, I'm hostile to these ugly apologetics for Joseph Stalin. > > I have never issued an "apologetic" for Joseph Stalin. I am not a Stalinist. > However, I am interested in ... point, but I have a hard time not thinking that Stalin had a few Kangaroos loose on the top paddock, even ...

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Author:	Thiago Oppermann
Date:	Thu Jul 24 08:11:50 PDT 2003

157 second-wave attacks -- rank: 562

... Sent to prison as a revolutionary in 1908, he met Stalin and had numerous political arguments (Menshevik vs. Bolshevik) with him. To the surprise of many, Stalin would never hold this against him.1 With a sharp ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Sat May 25 11:02:41 PDT 2002

158 [lbo-talk] Stalin Again (Was Re: OFFLIST: ) -- rank: 562

... No, I'm hostile to these ugly apologetics for Joseph Stalin. I have never issued an "apologetic" for Joseph Stalin. I am not a Stalinist. However, I am interested in ... society is just a matter of "taste?" A) The post-Stalin USSR was a lot less repressive than you seem to ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Thu Jul 24 07:04:13 PDT 2003

159 Stalin, literary critic -- rank: 562

... was not out of the way, and was one whom Stalin might easily have chosen to destroy. He had never conformed to the socialist-realist model, nor indeed before Stalin's era had he fitted into the prevailing orthodoxy. He ... many people died for less. Yet, as legend has it, Stalin is supposed to have instructed his henchmen to "leave that ...

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Author:	ChrisD(RJ)
Date:	Sun Mar 2 23:12:27 PST 2003

160 [lbo-talk] Stalin: now at 2491 and the hits keep coming -- rank: 562

... a search through the LBO-Talk archives for references to Stalin. There are, as of this particular bite of space-time ... me just say that's a helluva lot of a Stalin. There has to be a play or sitcom to be ... vital to goofy -- and, every now and again, someone yells 'Stalin!' Which, of course, brings nearly all other conversations to a ...

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Author:	Dwayne Monroe
Date:	Tue May 4 15:40:33 PDT 2004

161 [lbo-talk] re: 'Stalin wasn't stallin'' -- rank: 562

... 2004 From: <heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk> Subject: [lbo-talk] 'Stalin wasn't stallin'' H: Hari Kumar (who shares a name with the Paul Scott character) thinks my claims that Stalin enhanced Nazi authority in Eastern Europe, that he sabotaged the ... of the Soviet Union to Germany to be contentious. But Stalin did make an alliance with Hitler, supporting his annexation of ...

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Author:	Hari Kumar
Date:	Sun Feb 8 16:31:24 PST 2004

162 [lbo-talk] Stalin worship -- rank: 562

... Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > But didn't Stalin do in the hated kulaks, which made > the peasantry very ... to the cities. The peasantry dissappeared as a class under Stalin -- when people talk about peasants in the fSU today what ... there may have been something unconsciously self-destructive about the Stalin Cult. ===== Nu, zayats, pogodi! __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Tue Jan 11 09:00:41 PST 2005

163 [lbo-talk] Medvedev honors victims of Stalin purges -- rank: 562

... AM, uvj at vsnl.com wrote: > Medvedev honors victims of Stalin purges > http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE48N55R20080924?sp=true If Medvedev wanted to "honor the victims of Stalin's purges" he would have done something to honor the ... of Soviet citizenship. Until that is done the mark of Stalin will continue to blemish the visage of every Russian government ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Sat Sep 27 06:56:36 PDT 2008

164 [lbo-talk] Stalin, Poet and Husband -- rank: 562

... willfully uncomprehending, I decided to do something more worthwhile -- translate Stalin's poetry! I stooped by my favorite Moscow bookstore (the ... house has put out a book "Poems by and About Stalin." Finally I got a chance to actually read them. So ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Thu Oct 19 08:44:46 PDT 2006

165 [lbo-talk] Stalin exonerated! Khrushchev lied!! -- rank: 562

... I investigated every one of the sixty-one allegations against Stalin and Lavrentii Beria Khrushchev made in that speech. These allegations ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 28 12:59:13 PST 2008