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61 [lbo-talk] Book Recommendation: The Young Stalin -- rank: 641

I picked up S.S. Montefiore's new book on Stalin's youth, "The Young Stalin," this afternoon. It is really friggin' interesting. Montefiore has gone ... piles and piles of memoirs written by people who knew Stalin in his youth, including -- get this -- he located Stalin's mother's memoirs, written at the age of 80 ... of that time period are great. I had known that Stalin came from a background of pervasive violence, but hadn't ... Also, the material on his budding literary career is fascinating. Stalin was known as a poet in Georgia before he ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sat Jul 7 10:58:28 PDT 2007

62 RES: [lbo-talk] Re: invasion of the body counters -- rank: 628

Chechens being deported en masse in 1944? Ukranian famine? Here is an excerpt from: Soviet repression statistics : Some comments Michael Ellman APPENDIX Do the famine victims belong in the same category as repression victims? Some writers include famine victims with repression victims, but others treat them as a separate category. In ...

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Author:	Alexandre Fenelon
Date:	Fri May 30 16:34:28 PDT 2003

63 RES: Russia, Ukraine, CIS -- rank: 628

>..."It seems to me that, as Stalin once said, the most important thing in the election is ... 2000/1/012800.htm http://www.google.com/search?q=Stalin+Cou

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Author:	michael pugliese
Date:	Sat Mar 30 11:32:21 PST 2002

64 [lbo-talk] "Full of shit" - -- rank: 628

On Wed, 04 Feb 2004 08:43:18 -0500, Hari Kumar <hari.kumar at sympatico.ca> wrote: > Hk: In the best tradition of Thurston, Arch Getty et al,... http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2000/03/getty.htm by J. Arch Getty THE PASSING OF AN ILLUSION: The Idea of Communism in ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Wed Feb 4 07:19:27 PST 2004

65 Hail the Hitler-Stalin pact! -- rank: 628

... this debate right. What was so reprehensible about the Hitler-Stalin pact was that the immediate exigency of defending the Soviet ... falsely contrasted with the needs of the international working class. Stalin elevated tactical considerations of survival against the strategy of anti-capitalism. Consequently, Stalin saw the goals of the movement better served by alliances ... secret services. That said, the grotesque cost of the Hitler-Stalin alliance was even more problematic, casting the Communist International as ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Nov 26 16:26:31 PST 2000

66 [lbo-talk] Some 45% of Russians approve of Stalin's policy - poll -- rank: 628

... 5 2004 7:57PM Some 45% of Russians approve of Stalin's policy - poll MOSCOW. March 5 (Interfax) - Forty-five percent of Russians said that Josef Stalin played a positive role in the country's history, 42 ... the ROMIR Monitoring company before March 5, the anniversary of Stalin's death, shows that 26% of respondents described him as ... the deaths of millions of people. Nineteen percent said that Stalin was the leader who made Russia a great power, and ... over Nazi Germany in World War II. Another 14% associate Stalin with the collectivization campaign, when property was confiscated from peasants ...

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Author:	" Chris Doss "
Date:	Sat Mar 6 10:18:12 PST 2004

67 Whence Stalin's popularity? -- rank: 628

... 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. On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 ... political analyst Markov goes to great > > lengths to ascribe this > > "Stalin nostalgia" to patrioti

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Author:	Jim Farmelant
Date:	Thu Mar 6 07:19:57 PST 2003

68 Cell Phone Stalin -- rank: 628

... story.html?f=/stories/20020220/110729.html February 20, 2002 Stalin's image sells phones, hotel rooms Michel Viatteau Agence France-Presse MOSCOW - Tyrant Joseph Stalin is the Russian advertising industry's latest wheeze for promoting ... it reminds us, on Uncle Joe's orders. "One day, Stalin gave the order: build a hotel and astonish Europe," a ...

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Author:	Kevin Robert Dean
Date:	Fri Mar 1 12:30:55 PST 2002

69 [lbo-talk] Stalin worship -- rank: 628

... Themselves! Your parents were Romanian. You guys got invaded! The Stalin cult was an internal development of the Soviet Union. Also ... people and deserved it, and for ordinary people like her Stalin was good and kind. This attitude is not unusual for ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Tue Jan 11 08:49:52 PST 2005

70 The Soviet threat was bogus -- rank: 612

The Spectator (UK) 20 April 2002 The Soviet threat was bogus Andrew Alexander argues that the Cold War was fraudulent and jeopardised our security Andrew Alexander is a Daily Mail columnist, and is writing a book about the Cold War. Like others of my generation, I hugely enjoyed the film Dr ...

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Author:	ChrisD(RJ)
Date:	Fri Apr 19 07:32:22 PDT 2002

71 [lbo-talk] Churchill to Krushchev: don't criticize Stalin -- rank: 612

... co.uk/tol/comment/letters/article6955086.ece> Don t criticise Stalin A firm word with Khrushchev Sir, Further to Sir Stuart Bell s letter ( Churchill and Stalin , Dec 5), in 1953 Nikita Khrushchev paid an official visit ... at the 20th Party Congress, in which he had criticised Stalin. Khrushchev was clearly surprised as the speech was supposed to ... Churchill went on to say that Khrushchev must never criticise Stalin again. He said that countries had few genuine heroes to treasure. Whatever other things Stalin had done, he had been instrumen

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 14 12:51:20 PST 2009

72 [lbo-talk] Stalin exonerated! Khrushchev lied!! -- rank: 612

... it is also true that however collective the leadership was, Stalin was far for than primus inter pares. He was the ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Tue Jan 29 21:01:23 PST 2008

73 [lbo-talk] Stalin would have been critical of the movie "Reds" -- rank: 612

... Reed's book. John Reed's book was criticized by Stalin for portraying Trotsky positively. Therefore, Stalin indirectly criticized the movie. "But not all responses were positive. Joseph Stalin argued in 1924 that Reed was misleading in regards to ... man who co-led the revolution with Lenin and mentions Stalin only twice one of them being only in the recitation ... a mighty socialist state. For that, mighty power was needed. Stalin was at the head of that power, which mean that ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 3 11:03:02 PDT 2012

74 [lbo-talk] Mussolini, Trotskyist -- rank: 612

... 10/1/05, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:Stalin was supposedly surprised by the German invasion, but I think ... corrected on this if anybody knows better. Comrade Khruschev claimed Stalin had a nervous breakdown for a few days. On Stalin and June 21, 1941, these were just published, "Stalin's folly : the tragic first ten days of World War II on the Eastern front, " by Konstantin Pleshakov. "What Stalin Knew : The Enigma of Barbarossa, " by David E. Murphy. From ... One of the enduring puzzles of World War II is Stalin's dismissal of unmistakable evidence of a looming German ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Sat Oct 1 09:17:03 PDT 2005

75 [lbo-talk] Sweezy, Stalin, etc. -- rank: 612

I read a large # of articles from MR from the 50's, in the Greenwood Press reprint series, "Radical Periodicals in the U.S.A, " a great collection of about a hundred rad journals issued in the early 70's, in many university libraries. Much was embarrassing, in retrospect apologetics. Esp ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Tue Mar 2 12:20:41 PST 2004