--- Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote: I ws thinking of the general tone of life, the peasant morality (I think it was Deutscher who said the Soviets had "bourgeouis Puritanism" -- WRONG! It was peasant Puritanism), the cult of the leader, the "levelling down" nature of some of the attitude, even the style of art.
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I forgot the obvious example of mummifying Lenin. Duh.
Wasn't it Berdyayav who called Bolshevism "the Russian Orthodox variant of marxism"?
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