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Looking for sources for Stalin not being a Dictator. (lemmygrad.ml)
submitted 2 weeks ago by AbstractTraitorHero@lemmygrad.ml to c/thedeprogram@lemmygrad.ml
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Realized that I have lost a lot of the sources that I had frustratingly beyond the CIA document & someone is asking for them. I don't want to just throw a lot of videos at someone either, so I would greatly appreciate any aid Comrades!

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[–] tyra@lemmy.ml 24 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I don’t have an exact quote to point at, but a very good book for understanding Stalin is “Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend” by the Italian historian and marxist Domenico Losurdo.

You can find a version of the free PDF here: https://www.iskrabooks.org/stalin-history-and-critique

[–] muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You can also find the audiobook of this on torrents and youtube.

[–] lawllo@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There's a speech he gave in the plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU where he got elected again as a General Secretary by the people, here's the link.

This is pretty much all I have, I hope it helps!

[–] sithlorddahlia@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 2 weeks ago

Has anyone been able to track down the original source of this? I'd be interested to see it in Russian or any of his speeches, really

[–] CrookedSerpent@hexbear.net 12 points 2 weeks ago

He was a dictator (good)

[–] rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 2 weeks ago

This book mentioned in this post might help -> https://lemmygrad.ml/post/8953715

Besides that book, you can also find some good sources in page 23 within this document regarding Stalin: "Anti communist myths debunked" -> https://archive.org/details/anti-communist-myths-debunked/page/n21/mode/2up

[–] Tabitha@hexbear.net 10 points 2 weeks ago

maybe a topic like this would make a good prolewiki page

[–] pyromaiden@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 2 weeks ago

Would also appreciate these sources!

[–] ember@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Not sure if your wanting more article length sources or books but the podcast Proles pod did around 10 episodes on Stalin and in their show notes they list lots of books that the read for those episodes. you can look that up if you want lots of book sources. Also the podcast episodes themselves are very good and give a lot of details.

[–] RedRook1917@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

Its a slog but they were very thorough with it

[–] RedRook1917@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Khrushchev Lied - Grover Furr

Another View Of Stalin - Ludo Martens