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781 [lbo-talk] Duranty Pulitzer to be revoked? -- rank: 362

Pulitzer Probes Times Writer's 1932 Award June 10, 2003 By LARRY McSHANE NEW YORK (AP) - A Pulitzer Prize awarded in 1932 to a New York Times correspondent is under review and could be revoked because of complaints that he deliberately ignored the forced famine in the Ukraine that killed millions ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Wed Jun 11 06:05:10 PDT 2003

782 North Korea -- rank: 362

Below is acopy of Justin's private response to my query, which I think is worth posting to the list. It raises an interesting question of the "alternative paths" of historical development. My response is that since history is not pre-determined, a different set of characters would almost certainly lead ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Fri Apr 28 07:58:34 PDT 2000

783 marxist sociology -- rank: 362

... 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:	Ian Murray
Date:	Thu Feb 21 20:35:43 PST 2002

784 germ warfare -- rank: 362

... have been to Beria's advantage in the days around >Stalin's death, but that doesn't make them true... > >Brad ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Mon Apr 24 13:32:58 PDT 2000

785 [lbo-talk] Re: Two Takes -- rank: 362

... is the most murderous form of anti-Communism. Speaking of Stalin, after I interviewed Slavoj Zizek yesterday (to be broadcast this ... the web late Thursday/early Friday), he said that when Stalin was devising a puppet government for Bulgaria, he insisted there ... a representative parliament. When the parliament was put together and Stalin looked over the membership list - and here Slavoj interjected, "this was the genius of Stalin" - he asked "where are the fascists? There must be fascists ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 14 10:30:05 PDT 2003

786 [lbo-talk] Happy Birthday Uncle Joe! -- rank: 362

... by the irrepressible Grover Furr, the leading defender of Cde Stalin in literary/cultural studies] The birthday of Joseph Stalin, one of the great communist revolutionaries of the 20th century, is celebrated today. He was born December 21, 1879. Stalin's life and legacy is a vital source of lessons ... study the truth about Soviet history before, during, and after Stalin's time, so we and others can imitate the Bolsheviks ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Dec 21 07:17:09 PST 2008

787 [lbo-talk] Kornstadt s/b Kronstadt -- rank: 362

Last post since I'm over. The NKVD certainly don't seem to agree with Nation-Boy: Top Secret Attn: USSR People's Commissar For Internal Affairs Comrade Lavrenty Beria February 1944 Memorandum The NKVD has learned from its agents that Khasan Israilov was being concealed by Dzhovatkhan Murtazaliyev with the ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Wed Feb 4 06:11:01 PST 2004

788 Fascism -- rank: 362

... within Iraq is from what i've read similar to Stalin's, in fact in an interview with Said K. Aburish ... detailed account and states that Hussein in fact did idolize Stalin as a hero, he even had pictures of Stalin in his office when he working in the regime that ...

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Author:	Micheal Ellis
Date:	Wed Feb 20 09:21:56 PST 2002

789 [lbo-talk] Brad "Vyshinsky" DeLong -- rank: 362

... jargon/terms/g/Godwin_s_Law.html > >> > >>I nominate the Stalin corollary as Henwood's law.............. Why not call it Proyect's Law, since he has essentially banned most Stalin-Trotsky discussions from his list since they almost inevitably end ... threats. Jim F. > >> > You'd have to explain what the Stalin corollary is. What happens if > Stalin is invoked? Is there an inevitable conclusion? > > > ___________________________________ > http://mailman.lbo ...

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Author:	Jim Farmelant
Date:	Thu Jul 24 06:59:58 PDT 2003

790 [lbo-talk] Gulag query -- rank: 362

... toll of imprisonment and death of innocent people during the Stalin Terror was unacceptably high, and (2) was much, much lower ... com> I just read that during the worst years of Stalin only 2.5% of the Sovietpopulation was in prison. This ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Sun Apr 20 18:01:22 PDT 2003

791 war and the state -- rank: 362

... with this dogmatic assertion. This is the > assertion shared by Stalin, too: That a minority seizure of power was > necessary, and ...

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Author:	Dddddd0814 at aol.com
Date:	Sun Aug 25 13:05:13 PDT 2002

792 [lbo-talk] Gulag query -- rank: 362

... like this sort of thing gets lost in the Hitler/Stalin comparisons. mbs From: "Chris Doss" <itschris13 at hotmail.com> I just read that during the worst years of Stalin only 2.5% of the Soviet population was in prison ...

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Author:	Max B. Sawicky
Date:	Sun Apr 20 18:56:35 PDT 2003

793 [lbo-talk] Trotsky joke.... -- rank: 362

A telegram arrives at the Kremlin, from Trotsky, addressed to Stalin. An aide reads the telegram and rushes breathlessly to tell Stalin the news. "Comrade," he stammers excitedly, "a telegram from Trotsky ... He acknowledges his faults." "What are you talking about?" replies Stalin, "Read the telegram." "Sure, sure," says the aide, "here it ... is over; the party is healed." "Wait a second," says Stalin, "you're not reading that right. Here give it to ...

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Author:	123hop at comcast.net
Date:	Wed Oct 17 10:46:07 PDT 2012

794 [lbo-talk] WR: Mysteries of the Organism -- rank: 362

Agree, this is a really really great film. Soundtrack by Tuli Kupferberg, too! Liza > From: Michael Pugliese <debsian at pacbell.net> > Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org > Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2003 22:04:26 -0700 > To: leftist_trainspotters <leftist_trainspotters at yahoogroups.com> > Subject: [lbo-talk] WR: Mysteries ...

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Author:	Liza Featherstone
Date:	Mon Oct 6 07:09:16 PDT 2003

795 [lbo-talk] Gulag query -- rank: 362

See also Mike Davis' Late Victorian Holocausts. However, recognize here (and in response to Carrol also) that it will be argued that it makes a big difference that the deaths, if foreseeable, were not intended; it was not the purpose of British laissaez faire capitalism to kill millions of people. That ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Sun Apr 20 19:17:43 PDT 2003