[lbo-talk] Bush's reading list (was: War protests in LA area)

Peter Lavelle untimely_thoughts at yahoo.com
Wed Aug 24 13:02:30 PDT 2005


Fair enough and reminds me to return to an essay I have been writing on Stalin: "Re-Stalinization or Stalinmania." A discussion on how Russia's historiography is detached from the history of the Russian people (nation).

--- Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:


>
>
> --- Peter Lavelle <untimely_thoughts at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Radzinsky is a kook. Awful - it is not scholarship
> -
> > it is theater. What he writes creates a lot of
> heat,
> > but no light.
> > >
>
> I really enjoyed his Rasputin book, but can't vouch
> for its accuracy. His Stalin bio, on the other hand,
> was absolutely loony.
>
> I just bought Zinoviev's Russkaya Tragediya, which
> looks great -- although his politics are wacky, he
> really is a brilliant novelist. Katastroika was
> hilarious ("Long Live Feudalism, Glorious Future of
> All Mankind!"), and Yawning Heights, which I haven't
> read, is supposedly first-rate.
>
> Nu, zayats, pogodi!
>
>
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