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“The formation of Stalins character is particularly important because the nature of his rule was so personal.”
“The formation of Stalin’s character is particularly important because the nature of his rule was so personal.”
“It seems that Russia todaydominated by, and accustomed to, autocracy and empire, and lacking strong civic institutions especially after the shattering of its society by the Bolshevik Terroris desti...”
“Stalin was always exceptional, even from childhood. We have relied on Trotskys unrecognizably prejudiced portrait for too long. The truth was different. Trotskys view tells us more about his own va...”
“Lenin and Stalin created the idiosyncratic Soviet system in the image of their ruthless little circle of conspirators before the Revolution. Indeed much of the tragedy of Leninism-Stalinism is comp...”
“The murky world of terrorism is more relevant than ever today: terrorist organizations, whether Bolshevik at the beginning of the twentieth century or Jihadi at the start of the twenty-first, have ...”
“It seems that Russia today—dominated by, and accustomed to, autocracy and empire, and lacking strong civic institutions especially after the shattering of its society by the Bolshevik Terror—is des...”
“Stalin was always exceptional, even from childhood. We have relied on Trotsky’s unrecognizably prejudiced portrait for too long. The truth was different. Trotsky’s view tells us more about his own ...”