What if you literally didn't take the US general election seriously and instead read Domenico Losurdo's few precious translated works and used that to transform everything?
What if you literally didn't take the US general election seriously and instead read Domenico Losurdo's few precious translated works and used that to transform everything?
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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.
It’s not a biography in any shape or form, that wasn’t Losurdos goal. He specifically criticises how Stalin is portrayed in media and history.
yeah I mean its in the sub-title. History and Critique of a Black Legend
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.
I misunderstood the premise of the book. I thought it would be more biographical than historiographical.