By "fSU," I usually mean the USSR between 1956 and 1991, probably the only period in the history of Russia in which the average person could be sure of having enough to eat.
>From: Michael Pugliese <debsian at pacbell.net>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>Subject: Re:Soviet nostalgia
>Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 09:32:24 -0700
>
> I'll have to dig through my URL bookmarks for a Russian website with
>Uncle Joe videoclips. Before Chris gets too nostalgic for the fSU, take a
>look at the newest volume in the Yale Univ. Press, Annals of Communism
>series. Edited by J.Arch Getty, whose earlier work regarded by some as
>apologetic for contesting the Robert Conquest/Leonard Schapiro Cold War
>Liberal line on totalitarianism, but at least from my quick skim, of the
>new
>one full of docs on the Purges.
> I suppose the battle to convince those that leftists critical of
>Stalinism, are not dupes of imperialism, Reaganite or whatever, still needs
>to be done.
> Here is a URL I just had sent to me, looks like a wicked parody of
>Soviet
>era kitsch. I love my tractor too!
>http://www.tiac.net/users/hcunn/rus/csu-charter.html
> Michael Pugliese
>
>
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