--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> Stalin died in 1953. The USSR survived him by almost
> 40 years. The
> states were repressive, for sure, but there was
> nothing like the
> hellishness of collectivization or the gulag.
> Applying the term
> "Stalinism" to Soviet & Eastern European societies
> of the 1960s,
> 1970s, and 1980s doesn't seem very helpful -
> actually it seems kind
> of lazy or sectarian or both.
>
I hate the word too, but do you have a suggestion for a better one?
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