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2941 Soviet philosophy (Was : marxist sociology) -- rank: 156

... in _Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism?_, Burton says, he re-evaluates Stalin. From the Verso website: ***** Totalitarianism, as an ideological notion, has ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Mon Feb 25 23:51:10 PST 2002

2942 [lbo-talk] new site -- rank: 156

... photos." Which leads me to ask: were Trotsky, Lenin, and Stalin jerks in bed, too? (And yes, I already thought of ...

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Author:	Dennis Perrin
Date:	Mon Apr 27 13:17:51 PDT 2009

2943 Refuting Pipes -- rank: 156

... already known. It's rather like the glasnost relevations about Stalin, which shwoed that he was a tyrant and a butcher ...

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Author:	JKSCHW at aol.com
Date:	Sat Sep 19 00:28:50 PDT 1998

2944 [lbo-talk] new site -- rank: 156

... photos." > > Which leads me to ask: were Trotsky, Lenin, and Stalin jerks in bed, too? I'm sure they weren't ...

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Author:	Matthias Wasser
Date:	Mon Apr 27 13:42:27 PDT 2009

2945 If the shoe fits... -- rank: 156

Alexander Cockburn on the Clinton crisis: Prostration before reaction Comment by David Walsh 2 September 1998 Alexander Cockburn is a radical journalist whose work appears regularly in The Nation, the weekly liberal magazine in the US. An article recently appeared under his byline in the Wall Street Journal, to whose Viewpoint ...

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Author:	Alex LoCascio
Date:	Wed Sep 16 13:39:27 PDT 1998

2946 Kurds -- rank: 156

Since I was on the subject of Chechnya: Transitions Online www.tol.cz February 13, 2002 Letter from Dagestan: Guardians of the Peace Say what you will about the continued rule of the Soviet-era elites in Dagestan--but at least they ve managed to safeguard some stability. By Nabi Abdullaev ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sun Feb 24 04:14:14 PST 2002

2947 Dmitrov/The Oligarchs -- rank: 156

... pugliese" <debsian at pacbell.net> Subject: Re: Dimitrov/"The Oligarchs" "Stalin's Letters to Dimitrov, " yet another volume in the Yale ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sun Feb 24 03:50:34 PST 2002

2948 Yevgeny Primakov -- rank: 156

Mark, I'll stick with Primakov as merely Deputy Director of IMEMO. He might have puffed his own past at some point which could have easily gotten picked up and widely repeated. There are rumors that he may have some Jewish ancestry. That is hardly the same thing as "Primakov is ...

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Author:	Rosser Jr, John Barkley
Date:	Wed Sep 16 12:30:20 PDT 1998

2949 [lbo-talk] Angela Davis -- rank: 156

... of anybody unless they actively defend Stalinist like policies or Stalin as a historical figure; or are active members of some ...

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Author:	Left-Wing Wacko
Date:	Wed Aug 12 12:19:43 PDT 2009

2950 [lbo-talk] Angela Davis a Stalinist? -- rank: 156

... authoritarianism (which was an effect not a cause) but on Stalin's adoption of the policy of 'Socialism in one country ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Thu Aug 13 04:39:39 PDT 2009

2951 [lbo-talk] Angela Davis a Stalinist? -- rank: 156

... famine of course was used as a political tool by Stalin... and collectivization would have been handled in an entirely different ...

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Author:	Bhaskar Sunkara
Date:	Thu Aug 13 05:56:56 PDT 2009

2952 Dimitrov/"The Oligarchs" -- rank: 156

"Stalin's Letters to Dimitrov, " yet another volume in the Yale Univ. Press series, "Annasl of Communism." This one co-edited by one of the oldest US Sovietologists (of a menshevik bent, see the chapter in Stephen Cohen's, "Rethinking the Soviet Experience, " from Oxford Univ. Press on Kremlinologists, also ...

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Author:	michael pugliese
Date:	Fri Feb 22 16:16:02 PST 2002

2953 [lbo-talk] Angela Davis a Stalinist? -- rank: 156

... famine of course was used as a political tool by Stalin... and > collectivization would have been handled in an entirely different ...

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Author:	Matthias Wasser
Date:	Thu Aug 13 06:12:15 PDT 2009

2954 Yevgeny Primakov -- rank: 156

Rosser Jr, John Barkley wrote: > A correction and some additions to my earlier posting > on Yevgeny Primakov, Russia's new Premier. > He was not the Director of IMEMO but merely its Deputy > Director in charge of its Middle East Section in the 1970s, > prior to his becoming Director of the Oriental ...

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Author:	Mark Jones
Date:	Mon Sep 14 13:25:36 PDT 1998

2955 [lbo-talk] Angela Davis a Stalinist? -- rank: 156

I'm not sure how Trotsky realistically could have done it differently. The policy was based on the belief (which AFAIK Trotsky shared) that the USSR was "in the crosshairs of World Imperialism" and so had to industrialize as rapidly as possible or be crushed by the inevitable, impending invasion. Moreover ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Thu Aug 13 06:23:25 PDT 2009