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This Soviet World reading group — Week 4, Aug 10–16: Chapter 4: “The Growing Democracy.”
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Those who are interested in more reading this week, might take a look at Strong's Dictatorship and Democracy in the Soviet Union. Its a short pamphlet that includes things we have read in this book and things we will read, you can see the beginnings of this book in it. And why I mentioned it: things I don't remember reading in This Soviet World
"Motion picture" really shows its age.
In saying so it should be remembered that this book was published in 1935, just a year before the "Stalin constitution" (as she talks about herself) and changes to how elections were held.
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As do some of the descriptions of certain ethnicities in the book. Was a bit of a shock to see it call someone "yellow" like that, even if it wasn't meant in a derogatory way.
Yea that remains a larger criticism with the book.