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    1. Christopher Green‏ @danvon1 17 Jun 2020
      Replying to @RadioFreeTom @CharlesPPierce and

      After Stalin, who was the most threatening? Kruschev, Chernenko, Andropov, Brezhnev? I’m probably missing someone.

      2 replies 1 retweet 3 likes
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    3. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 17 Jun 2020
      Replying to @MichaelSlavitch @danvon1 and

      That is not correct. Brezhnev was in fact an advocate of stability and "trust in cadres." I would argue that Andropov was the most dangerous of the bunch.

      7 replies 4 retweets 43 likes
    4. Arnon Mishkin‏Verified account @arnonmishkin 17 Jun 2020
      Replying to @RadioFreeTom @danvon1 and

      Interesting—wasn’t he (for a time) Gorbachev’s key sponsor?

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    5. Josh Marshall‏Verified account @joshtpm 18 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arnonmishkin @RadioFreeTom and

      I think more than for a time. He was his sponsor. Curious what Tom says. But my understanding has always been that Andropov’s dangerousness was rooted in his knowledge of the decay of the system and efforts to change that. In his own way was a reformer too.

      2 replies 3 retweets 16 likes
    6. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 18 Jun 2020
      Replying to @joshtpm @arnonmishkin and

      Yes, Andropov helped bring Gorby to Moscow. But Andropov was a rigid ideologue, and thought "reform" meant "work harder and drink less." He was also kind of paranoid about the US and the encirclement of the USSR.

      4 replies 3 retweets 38 likes
    7. Josh Marshall‏Verified account @joshtpm 18 Jun 2020
      Replying to @RadioFreeTom @arnonmishkin and

      My understanding was that the throughline was understanding that the economic stagnation of the Brezhnev era was unsustainable. So reformist in that sense. Find ways to build productivity that can undergird competing militarily with the west.

      2 replies 1 retweet 14 likes
    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Jun 2020
      Replying to @joshtpm @RadioFreeTom and

      Strange but true: Eugene Genovese, shortly before his hard turn to the right, said he really regretted Andropov's early death because he seemed like a guy who could fix the system.

      1 reply 1 retweet 8 likes
    9. Josh Marshall‏Verified account @joshtpm 18 Jun 2020
      Replying to @HeerJeet @RadioFreeTom and

      Genovese's life arc and scholarship is one of the greatest indictments of Marxism.

      5 replies 1 retweet 21 likes
    10. Professor Booty PhD‏ @ProfBootyPhD 18 Jun 2020
      Replying to @joshtpm @HeerJeet and

      remember when some of his last public work was to argue that Southern slavery was consistent with Christian doctrine? good times

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Jun 2020
      Replying to @ProfBootyPhD @joshtpm and

      Yeah, that's in "Mind of the Master Class" -- a very, very strange book (although, to be fair, it ends up condemning slavery although has hundreds of pages praising intellectual brilliance & Biblical learning of slave owners).

      11:11 AM - 18 Jun 2020
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