Almost finished with Blackshirts and Reds, it's very good, I recommend it to everyone who's reading this comment.
It dragged a little bit during the chapters on how former soviet countries got fucked by capitalism in the 90s but everything else has been really engaging.
By the way, if you’re interested in the neoliberal rampage across the eastern bloc in the 90s, the sections on it in The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein are quite in depth.
Almost finished with Blackshirts and Reds, it's very good, I recommend it to everyone who's reading this comment.
It dragged a little bit during the chapters on how former soviet countries got fucked by capitalism in the 90s but everything else has been really engaging.
I’m reading it too. I fucking hate Boris yeltsin.
I'm actually really interested in that "drag" topic, thanks, I'll Libby it
Update: library doesn't have it
Try libgen or b-ok.org
Also this
It was very informative, it just read more like a list of citations than any other part of the book.
here it is in either PDF or ePub
By the way, if you’re interested in the neoliberal rampage across the eastern bloc in the 90s, the sections on it in The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein are quite in depth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZTIs268HXA
Yeh, it’s very good stuff. Really enjoyed it and I’m looking to read more Parenti, I might do inventing reality next