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106 [lbo-talk] Eric Hobsbawm -- rank: 156

... a synonym for "I don't like it." Cannon _rejected_ Stalin's concrete policies and established the SWP. The SWP & the ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Tue Oct 2 15:54:18 PDT 2012

107 [lbo-talk] Hobsbawm -- rank: 312

... Socialism in One Country (namely the USSR), the policy that Stalin advanced in 1926. This was the policy that transformed all ... regime in Moscow - though of course there were no gains: Stalin had turned Russia into a slaughter

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Tue Oct 2 14:34:14 PDT 2012

108 [lbo-talk] Eric Hobsbawm -- rank: 247

... History and My Life where he starts his attacks on Stalin. There are two Trotsky essays that deal with the early Chinese Revolution in the late 1920s when Stalin backed Chiang Kai-shek and then a few years later ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Tue Oct 2 09:59:40 PDT 2012

109 [lbo-talk] Meditations on Trotsky and Occupy -- rank: 247

``At first, I thought that the youth involved in the Occupy movement in the U.S. was uninterested in this historical experience, but over time I've had to revise my belief. There's a tremendous excitement and interest in re-examining all this, even if -- sometimes -- ...people rush to ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Sat Sep 29 23:47:53 PDT 2012

110 [lbo-talk] Meditations on Trotsky and Occupy -- rank: 156

... The other notion -- now common among Russian biographers -- is that Stalin was simply a slightly exaggerated version of Lenin. I guess ...

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Author:	Julio Huato
Date:	Fri Sep 28 12:03:17 PDT 2012

111 [lbo-talk] The effect of drones -- rank: 247

... well the history of the lead-up to the Hitler-Stalin pact (if that's what you're referring to), but ...

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Author:	Mark DeLucas
Date:	Fri Sep 28 11:46:48 PDT 2012

112 [lbo-talk] The effect of drones -- rank: 247

Ravi: "Stalin struck a deal with Hitler, going against the West" [WS ... Germany_and_the_Soviet_Union I heard a story that Stalin staunchly refused to believe that the Nazis would turn against ...

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Author:	Wojtek S
Date:	Fri Sep 28 11:32:19 PDT 2012

113 [lbo-talk] The effect of drones -- rank: 156

... after I left the old country was the story that Stalin struck a deal with Hitler, going against the West newer ...

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Author:	// ravi
Date:	Fri Sep 28 11:25:31 PDT 2012

114 [lbo-talk] Meditations on Trotsky and Occupy_2 -- rank: 156

... works/1937/trotskyism.htm ``Lenin, who was neither God nor Stalin, made a serious error when for twelve years he opposed ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Thu Sep 27 18:44:09 PDT 2012

115 [lbo-talk] London launch, Unpatriotic History of 2WW - Thurs -- rank: 312

THE UNPATRIOTIC HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR. 'a compelling and fascinating analysis, demolishing conventional accounts of the War' Anti-Capitalist Initiative http://anticapitalists.org/2012/08/16/the-truth-behind-the-second-world-war/ ``Overall, Heartfield offers a compelling and fascinating analysis, demolishing conventional accounts of the War and successfully ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Fri Sep 21 12:26:42 PDT 2012

116 [lbo-talk] Cast of "Reds" -- rank: 156

Point of information: I think Goldman was deported from the USA. She had never bothered to get citizenship after emigrating with her parents as far as I know and, she had been born in what was then the Czarist Empire. I think she actually chose to end up in revolutionary Russia ...

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Author:	Mike Ballard
Date:	Sun Sep 9 17:54:50 PDT 2012

117 [lbo-talk] Cast of "Reds" -- rank: 469

... Lenin himself had an inkling about what might happen were Stalin's actions unchecked, and warned the Bolshevik leadership about it in his Testament, suppressed, of course, under Stalin. The Bolshevik leadership Lenin warned was murdered almost to a ... Leninists were a cult. I said the Soviet Union under Stalin and after fostered a cult of Lenin. Some self-styled ...

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Author:	andie_nachgeborenen
Date:	Thu Sep 6 22:49:43 PDT 2012

118 [lbo-talk] Cast of "Reds" -- rank: 312

The Lenin artifacts probably passed into the hands of one of the the many on-line dealers who specialize in Soviet-era relics.   Interestingly, I did see a typewriter, purportedly used by Rudolf Hess when he took down Hitler's in-prison dictation for "Mein Kampf", go on auction for several ...

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Author:	John Wesley
Date:	Thu Sep 6 09:25:25 PDT 2012

119 [lbo-talk] Cast of "Reds" -- rank: 312

... of doing that from time to time since 1992.   About Stalin:  His statues/busts have not been on public display for ... of "Reds" John Wesley Probably not too far from where Stalin lies, since his "demausoleumization".  Mike G ^^^^^ CB: Yes, right up ...

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Author:	John Wesley
Date:	Thu Sep 6 09:18:41 PDT 2012

120 [lbo-talk] Cast of "Reds" -- rank: 247

Georg Lukács 1962 Reflections on the Cult of Stalin http://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/1962/stalin.htm ^^^^

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Author:	c b
Date:	Thu Sep 6 09:12:45 PDT 2012