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[–] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Would you recommend any other Stalin reading as essential before Losurdo's take?

I haven't read much in detail about Stalin to be honest, but I am wary of starting reading about him with a polemic (but then, all history is polemic - so, idk).

[–] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I actually expected it to be a lot more of a polemic than it was tbh

[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

I genuinely think it's better to read that one first. It was revelatory for me.

Otherwise, Getty's Origins of the Great Purges or Furr's Khrushchev Lied.