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2116 [lbo-talk] Chechnya -- rank: 156

Chechnya's war on independence >Nabi Abdullaev: Islamist extremists have hijacked Chechen >self-governance >By Ken Gewertz >Harvard News Office >Harvard Gazette >September 29, 2003 >http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/daily/0309/29-chechnya.html > >Quagmires come in all shapes and sizes. Russia's version is a small, >predominantly Muslim ...

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Author:	Chris Doss(RJ)
Date:	Mon Oct 20 00:48:07 PDT 2003

2117 Chinese left -- rank: 156

The issue of what is Left in the PRC today is, of course, enormously complicated and in-process. (Nothing new there) I am just starting to work on Mandarin and have a long way to go, and regardless my work deals more with China-watchers and what I like to call ...

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Author:	Daniel F. Vukovich
Date:	Wed Dec 22 01:52:42 PST 1999

2118 [lbo-talk] Re: Russia, antisemitism -- rank: 156

I'm not going to argue w/ you again on this. Would be like wrestling w/ an alligator. Before I list books found on all the university library shelves I'm familiar with, recently ran across some quip that if you want to misinformed talk with a man that has lived ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Fri Oct 17 08:57:21 PDT 2003

2119 [lbo-talk] Rethinking Liberalism -- rank: 156

On 4/20/07, BklynMagus <magcomm at ix.netcom.com> wrote: > > Doug probably agrees with Fred Halliday that leftists should > line up with liberals, even if they are imperialists ("Cooler > Elites"), against religious, anti-imperialist populists who are > fundamentally or may become illiberals > > Why is it either/or? I do not ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sat Apr 21 06:15:03 PDT 2007

2120 [lbo-talk] more Taibbi on Yeltsin -- rank: 156

Well, not exactly. What Americans missed during Yeltsin's presidency -- and they missed it because American reporters defiantly refused to report the truth of the matter -- was that under Boris Yeltsin the Russian state itself became little more than a cash factory for gangland interests. This was corruption on the larger ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 27 21:36:19 PDT 2007

2121 [lbo-talk] Brezhnev was Russia's Elvis (was popular Russian political figures) -- rank: 156

I think it is more than that -- I get the feeling people remember him the way somebody might remember a old grandfather with kooky habits. Plus he was in power a long time, and his face was everywhere... God, what a trainwreck of a daughter. Josif Kobzon (the singer) says she ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Mon Oct 6 00:53:45 PDT 2003

2122 [lbo-talk] more Taibbi on Yeltsin -- rank: 156

... at panix.com> >Subject: [lbo-talk] more Taibbi on Yeltsin > >... Stalin himself, an >ethnic Georgian, used to physically re-enact this ...

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Author:	Carl Remick
Date:	Sat Apr 28 08:56:57 PDT 2007

2123 [lbo-talk] Brezhnev was Russia's Elvis (was popular Russian political figures) -- rank: 156

... refer to the "Brezhnev era," the "Gorbachev era" (boo!), the "Stalin era" etc. History of autocracy probably has something to do ...

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Author:	Peter Lavelle
Date:	Sun Oct 5 12:40:00 PDT 2003

2124 [lbo-talk] Brezhnev was Russia's Elvis (was popular Russian political figures) -- rank: 156

... refer to the "Brezhnev era," the "Gorbachev era" (boo!), the "Stalin era" etc. History of autocracy probably has something to do ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sun Oct 5 07:30:35 PDT 2003

2125 [lbo-talk] Re: Unequivocal statements by Friedrich Engels (Homophobia from German maoist loons) -- rank: 156

... when he got rid of all laws governing sexuality. At Stalin's personal insistence, laws against homosexuality were restored and Mao ...

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Author:	Brian Charles Dauth
Date:	Sat Oct 4 09:27:20 PDT 2003

2126 Anarchism vs. Marxism-Leninism: Marxism-Leninism wins ! -- rank: 156

... war, but it's difficult to defend the necessity of Stalin's Great >Purges and forced collectivization. Maybe they may have ...

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Author:	Alexandre Fenelon
Date:	Mon Dec 20 16:19:52 PST 1999

2127 [lbo-talk] Re: Bolshevik-Bashing -- The Point -- rank: 156

... wrote: <snip> Back when there was a USSR, and a Stalin or even a Mao, and Stalinism was a pole of ...

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Author:	Jacob Conrad
Date:	Sun Nov 30 22:10:39 PST 2003

2128 [lbo-talk] Bolshevik-Bashing -- The Point -- rank: 156

... be Beautiful Souls. That doesn't mean justifying the Hitler-Stalin Pact or whatever chunk of ancient history you object to ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Sun Nov 30 21:28:08 PST 2003

2129 [lbo-talk] Bolshevik-Bashing -- The Point -- rank: 156

... main interests: (1) convincing everyone of the > glories of Josef Stalin and (2) demonstrating > the contradictions and errors of the Bible ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Sun Nov 30 17:24:07 PST 2003

2130 <THE::CYBER.COM/MUNIST::MANIFESTO> -- rank: 156

... echoes the preconceptions of Soviet communism. During the 1930s, Josef Stalin similarly measured progress towards utopia through the rising output of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 20 07:02:40 PST 1999