@jbouie Robert Conquest is usually considered a standard author on both subjects. Sheila Fitzpatrick's social histories have more texture.
@yeselson @CoreyRobin @jbouie My partner was just teaching a survey of Russian history and it textbook still cited Medvedev with respect.
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@jbouie@HeerJeet@yeselson@CoreyRobin Possibly too tangential, but there's a so-so bio of W Duranty;Getty's review: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v13/n09/j-arch-getty/fudging-the-news … -
@PatrickIber@jbouie@HeerJeet@CoreyRobin I render that book--anybody read it? - Show replies
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@HeerJeet@CoreyRobin@jbouie He was very powerful at the time because he was the anti-Stalinist Soviet democratic socialist.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet@yeselson@CoreyRobin@jbouie Conquest's emphasis on Stalin's agency undercuts his conservative politics lets Bolshevism off hook? -
@GeoffPolHist@HeerJeet@yeselson@jbouie Yes! And oddly so! I think his denunciatory rhetoric hid that embarrassing fact from many people. - Show replies
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