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991 Brad deLong on Noam Chomsky -- rank: 312

... late 1940s of U.S. policy from Rooseveltian cooperation with >Stalin to Trumanesque confrontation, not a word about escalation of >tensions ... of former German prisoners returned by the western >allies to Stalin, the failure of power-sharing in Poland, the Soviet coup ...

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Author:	sokol at jhu.edu
Date:	Thu Oct 29 09:11:38 PST 1998

992 [lbo-talk] Re: Josef " Whitman " Dzhugashvili -- rank: 312

... was news to me. Yes, there is a biography of Stalin by a certain Cameron (Edwin or Edward or something like that), called Stalin: Man of Contradiction, in which there are even some lengthy ... it anyway. Cameron's book is also very staunchly pro-Stalin. Tahir

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Author:	Tahir Wood
Date:	Wed Mar 24 02:52:02 PST 2004

993 RES: Korea's blessing -- rank: 312

... delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU> writes >>No I don't. Stalin let slip the leash--and so started a war. > >Most ... them into the war. Are you saying that the weapons Stalin shipped to North Korea in the year before the Korean War started in June 1950 were--in Stalin's mind--intended for *defensive* use only? Are you saying ...

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Author:	Brad De Long
Date:	Tue Jun 27 15:41:35 PDT 2000

994 [lbo-talk] Re: Palast slams Galloway -- rank: 312

... years. He says he would describe himself as 'a Stalinist' (Stalin's death toll: 30 million) if that didn't 'make ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Sat Sep 17 23:56:55 PDT 2005

995 Kazan/HUAC -- rank: 312

... believe that the partisans in >Greece were pretty independent of Stalin and would have >very likely followed a Tito-style model than a Stalin model. >(Of course they might have imitated Enver Hoxha.... ). Particularly ... to eat their children... >Kazan was not >informing on Joseph Stalin but on a bunch of his powerless >supporters in the ...

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Author:	Brad De Long
Date:	Mon Mar 29 08:48:37 PST 1999

996 [lbo-talk] conserativism in America -- rank: 312

``Rothbard argues that the American Old Right could not be considered conservative in the European sense. Quite the contrary, it opposed traditional conservatism as an enemy of liberty. Rothbard states his view with characteristic force. He refers to `the philosophy that has marked genuinely conservative thought, regardless of label, since ...

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Author:	(Chuck Grimes)
Date:	Sat Dec 1 22:42:48 PST 2007

997 [lbo-talk] Hitchens vs. Hobsbaum -- rank: 312

... in the book that he would have spied for Joseph >Stalin if only somebody had bothered to ask. >Hitchens, by contrast ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Wed May 28 02:19:27 PDT 2003

998 [lbo-talk] Re: invasion of the body counters -- rank: 312

... century's major eruptions of genocide: >>the Soviet Union under Stalin, >--- >Stalin never attempted genocide. If you start applting "genocide" to every ... doesn't like. but, i have to ask, who was stalin targeting for mass murder?

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Author:	Kelley
Date:	Fri May 30 09:31:06 PDT 2003

999 [lbo-talk] Re: invasion of the body counters -- rank: 312

... December, 1993), 1017-49; R.W. Davies, "Forced Labour Under Stalin: The Archive Revelations", New Left Review, 214 (November-December 1995 ... 80. http://www.swan.ac.uk/history/teaching/teaching%20resources/Stalin's%20Russia,%20Stalin's%20Russians%201929- 1953/thematic%20reading%20list ... htm R. W. Davies, M. B. Tauger, S. G. Wheatcroft, "Stalin, Grain Stocks and the Famine of 1932-1933," Slavic Review ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Fri May 30 09:41:50 PDT 2003

1000 [lbo-talk] Reading Arendt in Caracus -- rank: 312

``The basic assumption of modern liberalism is that freedom is involved in an ongoing, all encompassing struggle against a dangerous enemy, totalitarianism...'' Reuven Kaminer --------- (I can't decide whether is a good idea or bad idea to post this...what the hell.) No. The source of this the basic assumption ...

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Author:	(Chuck Grimes)
Date:	Mon Aug 20 08:04:23 PDT 2007

1001 [lbo-talk] Re: invasion of the body counters -- rank: 312

... December, 1993), 1017-49; R.W. Davies, "Forced Labour Under Stalin: The Archive Revelations", New Left Review, 214 (November-December 1995 ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Fri May 30 09:49:23 PDT 2003

1002 [lbo-talk] Re: invasion of the body counters -- rank: 312

my problem with all of this is that i've never been able to appreciate the difference between 2.8 million, 4 million, 5.1 million, and 6 million. what, that six million is morally twice as bad as 2.8 million? that 2.8 million is a quarter less bad ...

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Author:	Jeffrey Fisher
Date:	Fri May 30 09:54:39 PDT 2003

1003 [lbo-talk] Genocide, Holocaust -- rank: 312

... genocide either. Nor are the > various bloody ethnic deportations of Stalin examples of genocide. (Sorry for the long post.) I disagree ...

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Author:	Thiago Oppermann
Date:	Fri May 30 20:19:32 PDT 2003

1004 [lbo-talk] Re: invasion of the body counters -- rank: 312

... an attempt to eliminate those peoples. (Though I'm no Stalin scholar.) Stalin could have had them all shot if he had wanted ... to. Instead, the Chechens lived in Kazakhstan for 12 years. Stalin himself is usually refered to as

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sat May 31 03:52:36 PDT 2003

1005 [lbo-talk] pain & development -- rank: 312

... accomplished great things in land reform, basic industrialization and education. -- Stalin had boggles-the-mind growth rates. I am deeply awed every time I walk by a Stalin building or the Stalin-built metro -- what must it have been like for a ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sun Nov 2 02:14:43 PST 2003