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minus-squareMaoTheLawn [any, any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·5 months agoWould you recommend any other Stalin reading as essential before Losurdo’s take? I haven’t read much in detail about Stalin to be honest, but I am wary of starting reading about him with a polemic (but then, all history is polemic - so, idk).
minus-squarebbnh69420 [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·5 months agoI actually expected it to be a lot more of a polemic than it was tbh
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minus-squareanarchoilluminati [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·5 months agoI genuinely think it’s better to read that one first. It was revelatory for me. Otherwise, Getty’s Origins of the Great Purges or Furr’s Khrushchev Lied.
Would you recommend any other Stalin reading as essential before Losurdo’s take?
I haven’t read much in detail about Stalin to be honest, but I am wary of starting reading about him with a polemic (but then, all history is polemic - so, idk).
I actually expected it to be a lot more of a polemic than it was tbh
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I genuinely think it’s better to read that one first. It was revelatory for me.
Otherwise, Getty’s Origins of the Great Purges or Furr’s Khrushchev Lied.