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This Soviet World reading group — Week 6, Aug 24–30: Chapter 6: “The Technique of Leadership.” (lemmy.encryptionin.space)
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Hello everynyan, we're reading This Soviet World.

Week 6 we are reading Chapter 6: "The Technique of Leadership."

EPUB, a link to a PDF, and online reading options, can be found on Comrade's Library. If you find problems with the EPUB tell me and I will fix it. Dessalines has made an audio book.

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[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Overall, I like how this chapter humanizes socialist leadership rather than how the West continually spreads anticommunist libel that are the same set of unfalsifiable tropes that even a book from the 1930s can debunk.

Especially considering a lot of myths about Stalin as the "brutal dictator" didn't exist yet, it continually pokes holes in the western narrative before the western narrative fully coalesced.

[–] edie@lemmy.encryptionin.space 3 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

Especially considering a lot of myths about Stalin as the “brutal dictator” didn’t exist yet

I thought they did.

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[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 4 points 22 hours ago

He was called all sorts of names at the time, but the common perception of him being "more evil and ruthless than Hitler" didn't exist at all yet, that was a product of the cold war.