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Back to Episodes/410/ Reading Club: Deutscher's Stalin
Description
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Deutscher's work in historical context
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Stalin’s parents' experience as serfs and the significance of his boyhood education in an Orthodox seminary
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How the oppression of the Russian Empire and the promises of Soviet industrialisation shaped young Stalin's lifecourse
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Whether, compared to other Bolshevik leaders, Stalin would have succeeded anytime, anywhere
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Was Stalin honest in his commitment to the revolution? Was Trotsky right that Stalin was just a cynic?
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How did Stalin compare to the other leaders at Yalta, such as the aristocratic Churchill?
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How do we compare Stalin to Cromwell or Napoleon?
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And what's behind cheeky internet Stalinism today?
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Message of the Non-Jewish Jew, Isaac Deutscher, Marxists.org
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On Orwell: 1984 - The Mysticism of Cruelty, Isaac Deutscher, Marxists.org
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I must start completely alone: Gonzalo Pozo on Isaac Deutscher’s wartime years in London, LRB