[lbo-talk] How the Soviets Broke the Blockade of "Red Oil"

[Michael Pugliese]

On 9/12/06, Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages at gmail.com> wrote:See,
also, Anna Louise Strong, "V. The Story of Russian Oil," The
First Time in History: Two Years of Russia's New Life (August 1921 to
December 1923),
<http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/strong-anna-louise/1925/first_time/ch05.htm>,
which discusses the struggle to regain and restore the Baku oil
industry.

   Significant Communist writer from the last century
Wikipedia entry is a useful summary of her travels and committments
from her Phd thesis on The Social Psychology of Prayer, helping found
Moscow News
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Louise_Strong to being thrown out of
the USSR in 1949 as a Spy on behalf of the CCP, towards which she had
grown more attached from friendships with Chou En Lai, than she was
towards the USSR...though in the case of the latter I defy even
Charles to defend her gushing prose on the USSR from the 30's. Esp.
this on, "the most democratic constitution in the world, " "The new
soviet constitution: A study in socialist democracy." Or this on
Soviet Social Imperialism, "Is the Soviet Union turning from world
brotherhood to imperialism?"

   A son, Tracy Strong, political scientist at UC, San Diego, has written a bio.

-- 
Michael Pugliese