Once again for those in the back: I overlooked SF because I sought out accurate sources on the genocide - works by Naimark, Snyder, etc.
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Replying to @AndreaChalupa
In *your* words you'd "never heard of her". Now you say you have & disapprove. Which was the lie? Just trying to understand your approach.pic.twitter.com/9T2BkYUaHM
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Replying to @DawnHFoster
Heard of Everyday Stalinism in passing, didn't look into writer. Read others on life under Stalin in 1930s,including my grandfather's memoir
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Replying to @AndreaChalupa @DawnHFoster
My grandfather wasn't a writer.He worked in factories in Soviet Ukraine. Sometimes he painted portraits of party leaders.Had artistic streak
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Replying to @AndreaChalupa @DawnHFoster
Shortly before he passed away, he felt compelled to write down his life story--from witnessing the Russian Revolution as a boy...
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Replying to @AndreaChalupa @DawnHFoster
His memoir has his stories of surviving Stalin's genocide famine in Ukraine & being a young father arrested/tortured during Stalin's purges
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Replying to @AndreaChalupa
Thanks for the detail, but you're trying to ignore the point: falsely claiming you've never heard of someone doesn't devalue their work.
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Replying to @DawnHFoster
You're making a petty accusation that's beneath you: Had never heard of SF. Only recently and in passing *once* heard of Everyday Stalinism
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Replying to @AndreaChalupa
Today you seemed to offer a very staunch critique of her work despite saying you'd never heard of her yesterday. Not petty, just confused.
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Replying to @DawnHFoster
Critique was on historians who downplay Stalin's genocide famine in general.SF's review describes her book Stalin's Peasants doing just that
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Well maybe if you ~read it~ you'd add more weight and maturity to your argument than "lol, never heard of her!" That'd surely do more damage
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