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841 [lbo-talk] RE: Was the USSR a "good try" -- rank: 362

I'm not saying _I_ think Stalin was a god. I'm saying a hell of a ... Tsar of All Russia. Peasants are big on God Kings. Stalin and the Cult of Stalin were products in large part of Russian peasant culture and ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Tue May 4 23:57:10 PDT 2004

842 Soviet philosophy -- rank: 362

Soviet philosophy <cian_oconnor at yahoo.co.uk> Tricky thing sarcasm - especially via email I guess. ^^^^ > > CB: So, you are saying that the intelligentsia are > the only smart and thinking people in society , and > all non-intelligentsia are stupid. I know I was being sarcastic, but I'm baffled by how ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Mon Mar 4 07:07:59 PST 2002

843 [lbo-talk] Roma history -- rank: 362

... paternally Jewish as well; I forgot to mention that. The Stalin-era high elite was famous for being non-Russian. Mikoyan ... course a Jew (not that he was part of the Stalin-era elite). Khrushchev was an ethnic Russian from Ukraine with ... t know if you can recoginize a Georgian accent, but Stalin had a strong one. His vowels are all funny: http ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sat Jul 11 16:11:13 PDT 2009

844 Zyuganov -- rank: 362

Pugliese mentioned Limonov and Anpilov. These interviews both appeared in the Russia Journal. Heidi Hollinger is a Canadian photographer. > A Russian phenomenon > > Dmitry Mozheitov talks with Edward Limonov > > Everyone knows Edward Limonov, the 57-year-old writer and politician. Even > those who have not read a single line of his outspoken ...

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Author:	ChrisD(RJ)
Date:	Mon Dec 30 01:16:12 PST 2002

845 [lbo-talk] BDL on Sweezy -- rank: 362

... remembered for the following passage: > > > >"The publication in 1952 of Stalin's Economic Problems of Socialism > >in the USSR would make ... possible today a more satisfactory reply.SIn > >the light of [Stalin's] explanationSI would like to amend the > >statement which Mr ... original wording and is, > >I think entirely in accord with Stalin's view." (Paul Sweezy (1953), > >The Present as History (New ...

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Author:	Michael Dawson
Date:	Sun Feb 29 19:35:24 PST 2004

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

... become desperate and > further discussion is doomed? Is there a Stalin corollary? Ian wrote: > I nominate the Stalin corollary as Henwood's law.............. > > Anyone care to second the ... Brian Siano wrote: > You'd have to explain what the Stalin corollary is. > What happens if Stalin is invoked? Is there an > inevitable conclusion? Show trials and ...

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Author:	Shane Taylor
Date:	Thu Jul 24 09:07:39 PDT 2003

847 Warsaw, 1943 and 1944 -- rank: 362

W. Kiernan wrote, << just the same as Stalin used up the Jewish partisans in Warsaw; >> Say what? Is ... even some Polish nationalist historians dispute the old saw that Stalin could easily have liberated Warsaw. However, what actually led Stalin to label the Home Army partisans as criminals was the ... it advanced into Polish territory. That was the explicit reason Stalin gave for revoking the permission originally given to Churchill to ...

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Author:	Apsken at aol.com
Date:	Wed Apr 7 09:21:58 PDT 1999

848 Kim Jong Il Thinks He's a God-King: Why Ignore It? -- rank: 362

... Sun[g] was a > >megalomaniac? > > He was a client of *Stalin*, for God's sake. Of course it seemed > likely that ... disaster for the Korean > people. > > Or do you think that Stalin liked to put nice, friendly, benevolent > do-gooders in power ... a weird view of history: Sung was a client of Stalin... Stalin's a genocidal tyrant... So Sung *must* have been a ...

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Author:	Seth Ackerman
Date:	Fri May 26 11:13:39 PDT 2000

849 marxist sociology -- rank: 362

... and the Dialecticians seem to be of some interest, Until Stalin put down his fist, there was a reasonbaly lively Soviet ...

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Author:	Justin Schwartz
Date:	Thu Feb 21 22:48:33 PST 2002

850 Confusion -- rank: 362

... reaction is to call it "bureaucratic" or an echo of Stalin. Lets put is this way. So what if Hobsbawn said ... anti-communist) So what ? Lots of famous Marxists go wrong. Stalin was a famous Marxist who went wrong. Stalin was a famous Marxist who went wron

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Wed May 24 11:40:55 PDT 2000

851 [lbo-talk] Re: Eurasianism -- rank: 362

>From: Dwayne Monroe <idoru345 at yahoo.com> > > >Thanks for posting this Chris. I was completely >unwaware of this movement. --- I think the Eurasia Party has a lot of potential, not so much for what it is now, but for what it shows sociologically about the current stage of development of ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sun Aug 10 23:47:59 PDT 2003

852 Soviet Union better than Yeltsin -- rank: 362

... old man who spent much of his adult life in Stalin's real-life version of hell that was the gulag ... one of the grimmest and coldest places in Russia, where Stalin's victims were brought to dig nickel mines and build ...

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Author:	Kevin Robert Dean
Date:	Tue Jan 15 12:13:07 PST 2002

853 [lbo-talk] Adolf, Joseph's boy? -- rank: 362

... historians). If I recall, in fact, they cite Suvorov. Yes, Stalin thought (they say) that if Hitler could keep the West ... the day of the invasion!). See The deadly embrace : Hitler, Stalin and the Nazi-Soviet pact, 1939-1941 / Anthony Read and ... brought up here: > > Suvorov's most provocative idea was that Stalin had planned to use Nazi Germany as a > proxy (the Icebreaker ) against the West. For this reason Stalin had provided > significant material and political support to Adolf Hitler ...

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Author:	Bill Quimby
Date:	Thu Dec 27 15:23:07 PST 2007

854 Soviet Union better than Yeltsin -- rank: 362

Just out of curiosity, how old are these co-workers? In Russia, most people over 40 either approve of the old system or are nostalgic for it to some extent. This is much less likely if you're in your 20's. (It's also much less likely if you're ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Fri Jan 11 02:44:04 PST 2002

855 [lbo-talk] Communist Historical Playwright dies -- rank: 362

Mikhail Shatrov, whose historical plays subjected Stalin and his legacy to withering scrutiny and signaled a new ... s plays shocked Soviet audiences with their fierce > criticism of Stalin. > > ...An assiduous researcher, Mr. Shatrov gleaned historical details and even ... historical plays the problems of the Soviet system begin with Stalin. Their solution lies in finding a way back to the ... thing, Mr. Shatrov told The New York Times in 1988. Stalin is a criminal of the kind the world has never ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Wed May 26 15:26:35 PDT 2010