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"Alexander Dolgun's story: An American in the Gulag" is another great book showing how brutal life can be. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Dolgun "T
by jonmartinwest 7y ago
"Alexander Dolgun's story: An American in the Gulag" is another great book showing how brutal life can be.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Dolgun
"The Soviet Story" is a 2008 documentary film about Soviet Communism and Soviet-German collaboration before 1941. It highlights the Great Purge as well as the Great Famine, Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, Katyn massacre, Gestapo–NKVD collaboration, Soviet mass deportations and medical experiments in the GULAG.
https://youtu.be/iTJQXKUR6mM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soviet_Story
- ardy42 7y agoI've not read The Opium of the Intellectuals, but was it talking about postwar French Marxism or Soviet Leninism/Stalinism?
- jonmartinwest 7y agoAron explodes the three "myths" of radical thought: the Left, the Revolution, and the Proletariat. Each of these ideas, Aron shows, are ideological, mystifying rather than illuminating. He also provides a fascinating sociology of intellectual life and a powerful critique of historical determinism in the classically restrained prose for which he is justly famous.