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Good resources on USSR history? (lemmygrad.ml)
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So, I’m in high school and I’ve got to make a simple essay contextualizing on the USSR for our reading of “Animal Farm” by Orwell. Are there any good articles, sites, etc. which I can use? (I apologize if this has been asked before or if there’s a megathread or something)

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[–] Cowbee@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Taking a brief look, it seems he's loved by Trots, which gives me pause. I don't doubt the quality of the research, but the fact that there seems to be few MLs in the comments seems off. Is it just that he tends to only highlight the real issues with Stalin, without contextualizing them with the real good, leading to a bunch of Trots loving his content?

[–] durduramayacaklar@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He’s not a Trotskyist he’s a more into Sverdlovist. I think he’s making a video about documents not about ideology. Even though, He’s criticizing Trotsky in the Stalin’s falsification school video. Stalin and Trotsky were using Soviet history according to their propaganda. He never says Stalin bad or Trotsky is good. Also, his documents from straight out of the Soviet archives which I can confirm; you can check copies of the original documents too. I think his efforts about to debunk Soviet monoism which I think is fair.

If you watch his Sverdlov video he’s debunking Trotskyist too.

[–] Cowbee@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Gotcha, thanks. Just wanted to know how critically to watch the videos, it's obviously good to have more thorough investigation, but the huge amount of Trots in the comments threw me off a bit.

[–] durduramayacaklar@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Trots are gonna find a document and they will use it according to their agenda like they ever do. That’s why, they’re knit picking some good ones but ignore the bad ones. I think Stalin and Trotsky debate is silly. Even though, Trotsky said NEP wasn’t feasible people are unhappy and 3 years later Stalin saw the NEP results and he decided to stop NEP and then started to collectivization. So, in this case Stalin already did what Trotsky said.

I think main issue with Stalin and Trotsky debate was their background. Stalin was a serfs son from country side, uneducated but natural and quiet; Trotsky was coming from a educated family from the city, intellectual but arrogant.

If, we gonna say a Lenin-like heir that’s Sverdlov not Trotsky or Stalin. Both admitted to him and took orders from him when Lenin was not in his position