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736 [lbo-talk] Germans should stop feeling Holocaust guilt: Ahmadinejad -- rank: 405

Hey, here's the monument to Stalin that was erected in North Ossetia last year: http://news ... in Russian (of course). Translation by me: A monument to Stalin has been erected in Yakutia May 5 2005 In the ... Yakut city of Mirnyi on Sunday a monument to Josef Stalin was erected. NESRU.com reports that the monument was erected ... passion, not taking anything in return." Popov also observed that Stalin died without a ruble in his pocket and without having ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Fri Jun 2 07:53:57 PDT 2006

737 [lbo-talk] Lost Politburo Transcripts -- rank: 405

The Lost Politburo Transcripts: From Collective Rule to Stalin's Dictatorship, edited by Hoover fellows Paul R. Gregory and ... the groundbreaking book Lost Politburo Transcripts: From Collective Rule to Stalin's Dictatorship (Yale University Press and Hoover Press, 2008), prominent ... transcripts also provide new, firsthand records of the rise of Stalin's dictatorship. The contributors to the volume explore the power ...

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Author:	John E. Norem
Date:	Tue Dec 2 19:11:55 PST 2008

738 marxist sociology -- rank: 405

... as they did around some perennial issues in Marxist philosophy. (Stalin BTW settled that debated by fiat). Stalin's rule as Justin quite correctly points out put a ...

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Author:	Jim Farmelant
Date:	Thu Feb 21 18:51:09 PST 2002

739 Everyday Stalinism -- rank: 405

Sheila Fitzpatrick, _Everyday Stalinism -- Ordinary Life In Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930's_: <http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-505000-2> & <http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-505001-0>. Sheila Fitzpatrick: <http://history.uchicago.edu/faculty/fitzpatrick.html> ***** Everyday Stalinism Sheila Fitzpatrick. Everyday Stalinism. Ordinary ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Fri Jan 31 08:29:31 PST 2003

740 [lbo-talk] Cultural Change? ( Marxist democracy) -- rank: 405

... Rapture. Ted ^^^^^^ CB: There is some nuance of difference between Stalin being popular then and still being popular now (as Chris ... collective and cross-generational chance to contemplate and reflect on Stalin and Stalinism. They are not now under the dictator's whip to cheer Stalin. In general, the Russian population has more direct or inherited "direct" experience with what actually happened during Stalin's rule than Americans and people on this list. Prejudice ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Wed May 5 11:58:40 PDT 2004

741 Stalinism as a Way of Life -- rank: 405

At 7:32 PM -0500 1/30/03, Doug Henwood wrote: >Has anyone done anything on daily life under formerly existing socialism? ***** STALINISM AS A WAY OF LIFE: A Narrative in Documents Co-Edited by Lewis Siegelbaum and Andrei Sokolov Translation by Steven Shabad and Thomas Hoisington 2000 Slavic Studies 496 ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Fri Jan 31 09:54:27 PST 2003

742 [lbo-talk] Beria question -- rank: 405

... relatives of any of the top circle? In any case Stalin did categorically forbid his daughter Svetlana (who is still alive ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Mon Feb 21 08:35:05 PST 2005

743 Anti-Democratic America -- rank: 405

... 38PM >>> Come on, Charles. The Nazi/Soviet Pact also allowed Stalin to conquer Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Eastern Poland without having ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Fri Dec 10 06:39:19 PST 1999

744 [lbo-talk] Fw: Can Politics Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? -- rank: 405

Doug wrote: > On Oct 15, 2007, at 1:43 AM, Lenin's Tomb wrote: > >> Of course we should argue that as a starting point, but you know as >> well as >> I do that this won't decide the propaganda struggle. > > And saying the Iranian regime isn't really so bad - or ...

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Author:	Marvin Gandall
Date:	Mon Oct 15 07:20:46 PDT 2007

745 [lbo-talk] Re: theism, atheism and dont give a fuckism -- rank: 362

... nightmare of Lenin's misunderstanding of modernity. And it was Stalin who coined the term Marxist-Leninism. Marx was a great ... had power. Trotsky would have been just as cruel as Stalin in power, if not worse. Thus, considering your love for Stalin and the Soviet Union found on his list, Stalin saved the Russian people from an even worse fate.......????? > > Incidentally ...

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Author:	Peter Lavelle
Date:	Wed Jun 1 14:34:53 PDT 2005

746 OFFLIST: Re: [lbo-talk] Re: Law Student With a History of Taking Left Turns -- rank: 362

... 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 ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Wed Jul 23 22:52:13 PDT 2003

747 fascism -- rank: 362

Michael, Iam actually much in agreement with your ideas below. Somebody like Saddam appears as national liberationist, fascist dictator, American Quisling, Communal demogue and much more. It is precisely: "What do we learn about fascism or quasi-fascism from this? that it's going to take the form dictated by the ...

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Author:	Greg Schofield
Date:	Thu Feb 21 00:50:57 PST 2002

748 [lbo-talk] Enough With the China Shtick Already! -- rank: 362

... Other Parties: None **** So this did not begin in the Stalin period, I have also seen detailed year-by-year breakdowns ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Thu Feb 4 12:20:38 PST 2010

749 [lbo-talk] Re: Trotsky and Soviet Planning -- rank: 362

... to the wholesale slaughter and downright genocide of peasants under Stalin; I don't think we'd argue that peasant genocide ... with the support of, the peasants, and not coincide with Stalin's suppression of peasant property. This is, in fact, the way it was. Stalin's co

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Author:	Turbulo at aol.com
Date:	Sun Jan 9 17:50:27 PST 2005

750 [lbo-talk] Who was Leon Trotsky? -- rank: 362

... of the international proletarian revolution. Only Great Russian chauvinists like Stalin (and that is exactly what Lenin called Stalin, along with his henchmen Dzherzhinsky and Ordjonikidze, in 1923) conceived ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Thu Oct 18 09:52:14 PDT 2012