one of the other signs of the fallibility of a story about authoritarian politics is that it's framed in a way that centralizes only the actions of one or two people
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reading a really good focused history of something like European baronial politics also gives an excellent sense of this - that's why BRING UP THE BODIES is a great novel of Stalinism despite being, you know, about the Tudors
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Curious if you've seen The Death of Stalin (2017) and what you thought about it.
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I enjoy it as a movie but I don’t think it’s a good depiction of Stalinism or authoritarianism in general
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It doesn’t capture the deadly seriousness of the political language, and it needed to come down from the tone of farce sometimes. Also Zhukov is far too confident.
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