• GoodGuyWithACat [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    I started his Stalin book hoping it would be a biography, but it felt like more of a historiography. It was talking about Trosky’s criticism of Stalin and Kruschev’s de-Stalinization and I wasn’t really into it. Not that it seemed like bad history but it wasn’t interesting or compelling from what I read.

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      It was talking about Trosky’s criticism of Stalin and Kruschev’s de-Stalinization and I wasn’t really into it

      I’m not sure I understand why you’d be interested in a book about Stalin but not those things. They are essential for understanding why the picture of Stalin among the western left is so skewed today.