>> "You might not think it possible to review a book about "everyday
>> Stalinism" without once using the words arrest, prison, shot,
>> forced labor, gulag, or camp, and referring to famine only in the
>> passive construction."
>>
>>
>> Yes you could. Most people under Stalin did not experience those
>> things. Stalin was very popular.
>>
>
> Before WWII?
Didn't all the Gallop 30s polls, like the US in occupied Iraq, show Stalin doing really well? :-)
john mage