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Stalin: The Tyrant as Editor
- hownottowrite 12y agoAnother interesting take on Stalin's affairs with the world of words is told in "The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book" http://www.amazon.com/The-Zhivago-Affair-Kremlin-Forbidden/dp/0307908003 http://www.amazon.com/The-Zhivago-Affair-Kremlin-Forbidden/d...
- hownottowrite 12y agoI thought I added more to this comment, but I guess not. The book shows a different side to Stalin with respect to writers. He is unsure of himself, perhaps even afraid. In any case, I thought it was an interesting juxtaposition not to mention the fact that both books show the power of words.
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- dominotw 12y agoI am not sure how our comment relates to the article.
- sheensleeves 12y agoI deleted my tweets about it, b/c really it's no the mode. We won't have it. -> But brass rings of history, history's dustbin for OBL. Thought nothing of it at the time (who could?). But then a later terrorist, the same response from politicians: let us forget these people. Same w/ crimes, publicize the victims, not the doers. But it fails since people are violent and like to learn about the violent.
- atmosx 12y ago> "The editor is the unseen hand with the power to change meaning and message, even the course of history. " What editor? Stalin was general secretary of the central committee of the communist party of the Soviet Union. The fact that he was a fishermen, magazine editor or something else at any point in time, doesn't make fishermen, editors or what-you-will able to change history the way Stalin did, because most of them are not in any position to do so. People can change (and do change) the course of history by perpetuating ideas that sometimes fall into the right ears/eyes. But other than that, I don't see other connections.
- fatihpense 12y agoI was expecting to see some new text-editor with strict rules...