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31 Stalin Society -- rank: 677

... May 24 2001 SLP leader s eulogy In praise of Stalin The Socialist Alliance are counterrevolutionary Trotskyite wreckers. Without a single ... concluded a speech to a 50-strong meeting of the Stalin Society held in Conway Hall on Sunday May 20. For ... that comrade Brar is not just the guru of the Stalin Society - a broad front that brings together those who take ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Sun Jun 10 10:21:58 PDT 2001

32 Introduction to The Essential Stalin Major Theoretical Writings, 1905-1952 by H. Bruce Franklin -- rank: 677

Introduction to "The Essential Stalin: Major Theoretical Writings, 1905-1952" by Bruce Franklin (Garden City ... 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

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Sun Jun 10 10:42:09 PDT 2001

33 [lbo-talk] Re: Eurasianism -- rank: 677

... of a popular sense of Russian national identity during the Stalin epoch. Controversial in the sense that Soviet social identity is ... to have stemmed from class consciousness, this book argues that Stalin-era ideology was actually more Russian nationalist than it was ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 25 07:12:13 PDT 2003

34 Allies against fascism? -- rank: 677

... 11/03/00 05:34PM >>> A few last notes on Stalin as warlord: > >CB: What I am directly challenging is the ... gave them more time, which they misused andwasted, due to Stalin's crimes and errors. (((((((((((( CB: But they didn't misuse ... contribute to winning the war in the end. What ever Stalin's crimes and errors, they were not sufficient to prevent ... CPSU from accomplishing a world historic feat. In fact, given Stalin's crimes and errors, the feat accomplished by the Party ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 6 08:06:16 PST 2000

35 [lbo-talk] Stalin/Hitler the same? -- rank: 677

... Monday, April 18, 2005 4:54 PM Subject: [lbo-talk] Stalin/Hitler the same? > 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 ... as far as I can discern, Hitler was nuts... and Stalin wasn't. Maybe the best example is a conversation ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 18 18:53:34 PDT 2005

36 [lbo-talk] Stalin's image, was: Re: great moments in the history of ... -- rank: 666

... parts of the city. It should not be surprising that Stalin used gangster tactics when in power because he was actually ... much of this stuff is lying around unpublished, repressed by Stalin and then later gathering dust) actually ripped a man's ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Tue Jul 10 10:07:18 PDT 2007

37 [lbo-talk] Stalin Again (Was Re: OFFLIST: ) -- rank: 666

... himself from doing it. None of those things apply to >Stalin, although we cannot be sure about the second. >Maybe S ... so it wasn't wrong. My own hunch is that Stalin, surrounded as he was by people who told him what ... as to Chris' notion that we cannot be objective >about Stalin, t

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Date:	Wed Jul 23 23:06:47 PDT 2003

38 [lbo-talk] stalin vs. hitler, the comic book -- rank: 666

... ta ddress this, and I was disputing the idea that Stalin's contribution to the Soviet victory outweighed his detriment to ... General Staff, but you miss the key thing, which include Stalin's decimation of the Red Army, and his terrible _strategic ... haven't. It doesn't address this to say, well, Stalin used the time to build a lot of industrial plants ... Urals in the terrible summer and fall of 41 because Stalin made criminal errors that allowed the Nazis to be knockin

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Date:	Thu Jul 10 13:48:16 PDT 2003

39 Life and Terror in Stalin's Russia -- rank: 666

... daily life under formerly existing socialism? ***** LIFE AND TERROR IN STALIN' S RUSSIA, 1934-1941 Robert W. Thurston 1996 Slavic Studies ... a mosaic of individual experiences."--Lars Lih, co-editor of Stalin's Letters to Molotov, 1925-1936 Terror, in the sense ... late 1930s. But, argues Robert Thurston in this controversial book, Stalin did not intend to terrorize the country and did not ... interviews with Soviet people indicate that many more believed in Stalin's quest to eliminate internal enemies than were frightened by ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Fri Jan 31 08:58:15 PST 2003

40 (Lenin/Stalin/Nicholas (was: Re: [lbo-talk] Appeal to Ignorance) -- rank: 666

Michael P. wrote: >> > --- Peter Lavelle wrote:>... Lenin was a beast and hateful murderer. > > TELOS, SUMMER 1998 > MODERNITY AND TOTALITARIANISM, L. Pellacani > According to Lenin, having achieved the "bloody extermination of the > rich,"(n71) the Bolshevik Party had to institutionalize a permanent > civil war. The declared objective was the "implacable annihilation(n72 ...

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Author:	Marvin Gandall
Date:	Sun Jun 19 16:25:59 PDT 2005

41 [lbo-talk] RE: 'Stalin wasn't Stalin' -- rank: 666

... Chris Doss" <itschris13 at hotmail.com> Subject: RE: [lbo-talk] 'Stalin wasn't Stalin' D. I hate to break this to you, but the ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 5 23:34:05 PST 2004

42 [lbo-talk] Edmund Wilson on Stalin -- rank: 666

... This reminds me of an old Soviet joke. As Comrade Stalin was addressing the plenary session of the CP someone sneezed. Comrade Stalin paused and asked "Who sneezed?" Silence. "Ok, then" said Comrade Stalin, "take the first row and shoot them." When the security marched the first row of delegates out, Comrade Stalin asked again "Who sneezed?" Silence again. "OK then" said Stalin, "take the second row." After the second row was marched out, Stalin asked again " Who sneezed?" At this time an old ...

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43 [lbo-talk] 'Stalin wasn't Stalin' -- rank: 655

... run by Myra Hindley and Ian Brady. Given the mockery Stalin and his successors made of socialism, it is not surprising ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Thu Feb 5 00:49:14 PST 2004

44 Whence Stalin's popularity? -- rank: 655

... us who love in the US, but I suspect that Stalin nostalgia derives from two different sources: one source being the ... return to a more egalitarian society. Many of today's Stalin fans do seem to be "browns" who admire him for ... for a lot of people in Russia, the nostalgia for Stalin represents a protest of the politics of the last decade ... form of capitalism. No doubt, many Russians are nostalgic for Stalin on both grounds. Jim F. --- A final word on the ... consumate loser. He led Germany on a path of ruination. Stalin, on the other hand, was the builder par excellence. Under Stalin, the Soviet Union beat the most dangerous, most

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Date:	Sat Mar 8 02:19:49 PST 2003

45 [lbo-talk] RE: Soviet nomenklatura privileges -- rank: 655

... This is also the first generation who, when asked about Stalin, neither >> say "He was a hero!" or "He was a murderous villian!" but rather >> "Stalin, whatever." http://english.pravda.ru/main/2003/03/06/44072 ... html However, now we can say whatever we wish about Stalin. But nevertheless, it is an obvious fact that there are ... and more people who positively estimate the role of Joseph Stalin in the history of the state. According to the last ... for Public Opinion (VCIOM), 53% of the questioned think that Stalin-s role in the history of Russia was great. Number ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Mon Jun 9 10:37:31 PDT 2003