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1786 [lbo-talk] Kadyrov killed -- rank: 156

Just wonderful. Now Kadyrov's men will go on a revenge rampage. NEWSMAKER-Moscow's man in Chechnya was long-time target By Oleg Shchedrov MOSCOW, May 9 (Reuters) - Chechen president Akhmad Kadyrov, assassinated in a bomb attack on Sunday, had been a top target of anti-Russian guerrillas since he ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sun May 9 06:27:57 PDT 2004

1787 [lbo-talk] Just Do Something! -- rank: 156

Historian Matthew Lasar's review of Doug, Liza's and Michael's piece. From: lasarm at transbay.net Subject: The Real Price of Thinkers NotThinking Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 15:30:53 -0700 (PDT) I'm sitting here in my office at UC Santa Cruz and holding office hours. No ...

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Author:	Joseph Wanzala
Date:	Fri May 7 20:28:52 PDT 2004

1788 [lbo-talk] Open Letter to Monthly Review Editors -- rank: 156

... with the Nazis. (What percentage? Nobody > knows.) whatever the excuse, Stalin's deportations had their precedents in the post-WW1 era ...

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Author:	Jim Devine
Date:	Sat Jul 8 09:33:18 PDT 2006

1789 Deportations, was: Re: [lbo-talk] Open Letter to Monthly Review Editors -- rank: 156

... Jim Devine <jdevine03 at gmail.com> wrote: > > whatever the excuse, Stalin's deportations had their > precedents in the > post-WW1 era ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sun Jul 9 06:04:15 PDT 2006

1790 [lbo-talk] Cultural Change? ( Marxist democracy) -- rank: 156

Charles Brown wrote: > What I am trying to say is that a likely interpretation of Marx's use > of the > term "dictatorship" is that he meant that masses and majorities of > uncoerced, self-determining working people would support and endorse > and > carry out (!) , yes, mass repression in class warfare with the ...

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Author:	Ted Winslow
Date:	Wed May 5 14:23:43 PDT 2004

1791 [lbo-talk] 'THE OTHER RUSSIA' MAKES ITSELF HEARD -- rank: 156

'THE OTHER RUSSIA' MAKES ITSELF HEARD 12/7/2006- Despite a concerted government effort to keep them from meeting, hundreds of opposition leaders and activists convened Tuesday for an unprecedented conference meant to dispel the happy image of a democratic Russia that the Kremlin plans to broadcast during the G8 ...

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Author:	Michael Givel
Date:	Wed Jul 12 14:18:07 PDT 2006

1792 [lbo-talk] Cultural Change? -- rank: 156

... and others, seem to blame the "victim". The Bolsheviks and Stalin are victims? Ridiculous. >Results matter. Bad results, bad activism. So ...

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Author:	Nathan Newman
Date:	Wed May 5 08:27:41 PDT 2004

1793 [lbo-talk] Cultural Change? -- rank: 156

Nathan: > Big counterfactuals there. Without the Soviet Union, would rightwing > fascists and McCarthyites have been able to gain so much power around the > world? Might Debs Socialists have survived intact from the 1910s without > the full-on onslaught of the Red Scare and the divisiveness of its internal > divisions? Would Hitler ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Wed May 5 06:55:30 PDT 2004

1794 [lbo-talk] Re: Democracy activists accuse Putin of repression -- rank: 156

I wrote with respect to the Another Russia madness: > > Sorry, a loose group of marginal figures and loons > roughly respresenting Russian versions of Kenneth > Lay, > Bob Avakian, and David Duke are not Russia's civil > society. Sergei Roy (formerly of Moscow News, now editor of intelligent.ru) had a perfect take ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Fri Jul 14 05:48:38 PDT 2006

1795 [lbo-talk] Re: Another Russia -- rank: 156

Hmmm....very interesting. I would say the give away to all this pooh poohing by the press that sings with one voice in Russia is the little comment embedded in all of this: "And it is a fact that the gathering at the Renaissance-Moscow Hotel was fully funded by foreign ...

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Author:	Michael Givel
Date:	Fri Jul 14 08:42:42 PDT 2006

1796 [lbo-talk] RE: Was the USSR a "good try" -- rank: 156

Chris writes: "Sakharov cried when Stalin died. Everybody cried. God was dead." OK. C'mon -- we ...

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Author:	joanna bujes
Date:	Tue May 4 23:33:42 PDT 2004

1797 [lbo-talk] Opposition Is Split After 'Other Russia' -- rank: 156

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2006/07/14/015.html Friday, July 14, 2006. Page 4. Print | Close Text size: Aa Aa Aa Opposition Is Split After 'Other Russia' By Francesca Mereu Staff Writer A large opposition conference this week is unlikely to influence the G7 leaders' opinions about Russia, but ...

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Author:	Michael Givel
Date:	Fri Jul 14 09:12:28 PDT 2006

1798 [lbo-talk] Explanatory Note -- rank: 156

... degrees > > treat Marxism as TOE. He (or he filtered through stalin or Trotsky or the > > 'pseudo-Lenin" or Mao explains everything ...

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Author:	shag carpet bomb
Date:	Wed Jan 18 16:51:07 PST 2012

1799 [lbo-talk] AP: "Spain still prefers silence on civil war" -- rank: 156

Spain still prefers silence on civil war By MAR ROMAN, Associated Press Writer' Sun Jul 16, 12:44 PM ET Of all the legacies of the Spanish Civil War, none looms as vivid on the landscape as the 490-foot granite cross towering above the burial place of the dictator who ...

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Author:	B.
Date:	Mon Jul 17 06:46:13 PDT 2006

1800 [lbo-talk] Lazar Kaganovich -- rank: 156

... of) the memoirs and (some of) the correspondence of Kaganovich, Stalin's right-hand man. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazar ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Mon Jul 17 08:14:24 PDT 2006