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691 [lbo-talk] World War as Class War -- rank: 405

... in the USSR.). Hence the emphasis on the person of Stalin, his rival. We know now however that Stalin, far from being some kind of omnipresent Big Brother, barely controlled a damn thing. Corruption in the provinces during Stalin was unbelievable, which is one reason why he resorted to ... the bureaucracy," which was a dodge to avoid dealing with Stalin's enormous popularity in both the Party and the masses, as well as the support for Stalin and the Terror among young Komsomol activists, who were pissed ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Wed Jan 20 16:09:13 PST 2010

692 [lbo-talk] World War as Class War -- rank: 405

... vacillated a lot. ^^^^^^ Hence the emphasis on the person of Stalin, his rival. We know now however that Stalin, far from being some kind of omnipresent Big Brother, barely controlled a damn thing. Corruption in the provinces during Stalin was unbelievable, which is one reason why he resorted to ... the bureaucracy," which was a dodge to avoid dealing with Stalin's enormous popularity in both the Party an

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Date:	Fri Jan 22 07:24:22 PST 2010

693 [lbo-talk] Markus Wolf -- rank: 405

Koch, Stephen Source: Partisan Review; Fall98, Vol. 65 Issue 4, p664, 4p Document Type: Book Review Subject Terms: *BOOKS Reviews & Products: MAN Without a Face (Book) Abstract: Reviews the book `Man Without A Face: The Autobiography of Communism's Greatest Spymaster,' by Markus Wolf, with Anne McElvoy. Koch has written an ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Fri Nov 10 07:32:48 PST 2006

694 [lbo-talk] Stalinism's record (was Fidel) -- rank: 405

... of > the 25 millions of the Great Patriotic War on > Stalin's > criminal negligence with regard to Hitler's > intentions > after ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Tue Jan 2 03:30:35 PST 2007

695 [lbo-talk] Stalinism's record (was Fidel) -- rank: 405

... of the 25 millions of the Great Patriotic War on Stalin's criminal negligence with regard to Hitler's intentions after ... blame that on the Nazi regime and the Wehrmacht personally. Stalin and the rest of the party leadership can be blamed for not being prepared (see Berezhkov, At Stalin's Side, p. 202). But it was German militarism that ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Tue Jan 2 02:50:02 PST 2007

696 [lbo-talk] Re: Fidel -- rank: 405

The body count of the Stalin era is still hotly debated. Getty's the best source ... the Great Purge of 1937-39 (called the Yezhovshchina, after Stalin's Secret Police chief of the period), and some hundreds ... of the 25 millions of the Great Patriotic War on Stalin's criminal negligence with regard to Hitler's intentions after ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Mon Jan 1 22:26:55 PST 2007

697 Rebuttal of anti-Sovietism -- rank: 405

... a disguise. Yea, Beria , head of Soviet Secret Police under Stalin was executed as a German spy in the 1950's after Stalin's death. Traitors show up in the damndest places. But ... no spies at all. If things were so horrible under Stalin, how come nobody ever betrayed the Soviet Union and worked ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Fri Oct 16 11:39:39 PDT 1998

698 [lbo-talk] Second editor killed in 10 days as fear grips Moscow -- rank: 405

On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 01:44:50 -0700 (PDT), Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote: > > How many Westerners are out there who have done actual > work of value on Russia in English? Paul Klebnikov > (RIP). Anatol Lieven. Anne Williamson. Peter Lavelle. > Stephen Cohen. Peter Reddaway. That's just about ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Wed Jul 21 07:44:44 PDT 2004

699 Political evolution or political unrest? (Was: Delong beleives fascism leads to democracy) -- rank: 405

>Re: >> >>A Bulgarian/Greece comparison is very different than a US/USSR comparison, a >>Canada/Albania comparison or an anywhere/anywhere comparison. Very >>obnoxious of you, and very dishonest. I can see why you spend your time >>on-line rather than in RL where twisting people's words like that ...

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Author:	NM
Date:	Sun Mar 28 13:07:09 PST 1999

700 OFFLIST: Re: [lbo-talk] Re: Law Student With a History of Taking Left Turns -- rank: 405

... we cannot apply the terms "insane" or >> "lunatic" to Joseph Stalin. And in this context, and accompanied by >> Chris's insistence that Stalin's actions were perfectly "rational," >> there's little else it can be but a defense of Stalin. > > This conversation is getting quite weird. My point was that Stalin > knew what he was doing and was not delusional. What ... to the use of the term "lunatic" or "insane" to Stalin. Your main arguments were that a) he acquired considerable political ...

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Author:	Brian Siano
Date:	Thu Jul 24 06:21:57 PDT 2003

701 [lbo-talk] biz ethics/slavery/groups/constitutional -- rank: 405

... in human history, " cf. claim at the time the 1936 Stalin Constitution was, "The Most Democratic in the world, " http://www ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Fri Sep 3 08:52:52 PDT 2004

702 [lbo-talk] For some people . . . -- rank: 405

... on the subject of Georgian culture in the contexts of Stalin and Beria pere -- I think I'll take a look ... pseudonym "Koba" of course is taken from a Georgian book. Stalin got his start as a teenager after all, oddly enough, in Georgian romantic nationalist circles. BTW though Stalin's mother was Georgian, his father was supposedly an Osse

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Mon Oct 31 07:51:27 PST 2005

703 Comparing Lin Biao to Khrushchev -- rank: 405

At 07:22 08/06/99 -0700, Brad DeLong wrote: >How can anyone who has ever read the preface to _Quotations from Chairman >Mao_ deny that Maoist thought is characterized by a lack of critical >capacity? How can anyone deny that Maoist thought is characterized by >mindless brainwashed utterances? > >Or is ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Tue Jun 8 14:16:37 PDT 1999

704 Allies against fascism? -- rank: 405

... the world from the Nazis, but it did so despite Stalin, not because of him. Whether on not we can explain the Stalin-Hitler pact as a desperate exercise in realpolitik--a rather plausible claim, since Stalin had spent the previous years and months attempting to get ... Hitler with France and Britain--we must certainly agree that Stalin blew the chanvce he had to prepare in many ways ...

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Author:	Justin Schwartz
Date:	Thu Nov 2 20:51:43 PST 2000

705 Soviet philosophy -- rank: 405

Tricky thing sarcasm - especially via email I guess. --- Charles Brown <CharlesB at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us> wrote: > Soviet philosophy > <cian_oconnor at yahoo.co.uk> > Subject: Re: > > --- Charles Brown <CharlesB at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us> > wrote: > Soviet philosophy > > "Justin Schwartz" <jkschw at hotmail.com> > > Subject: Re: > > > > > The view that ...

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Author:	Cian O'Connor
Date:	Fri Mar 1 10:26:53 PST 2002