Looking up those names and OMG that guy became such a fucking wretched liberal. Like holy shit he sounds based when he was young and then just the biggest ideologue for fascists
The folks you'll hear about inevitably went that direction after glasnost, because they were willing to trade on existing credibility. The folks who didn't just disappear into obscurity. Digging up old forgotten scholars and piecing together a better picture of history makes for exciting grad school work, but fails to pay the bills at the corporate level.
Meh. He at least has the credentials of "being there". Anne Applebaum spent her entire life inside the DC Beltway, save for a summer sabbatical in St. Petersburg 40 years ago.
You can shit on him for being a revisionist rather than some Thomas Friedman tier "I heard this from a taxi driver on the way to the airport" bullshit.
When you're reading the names of the authors of Russian histories and they're all :cracker:
Not a single Zemskov, Yanin, or Volkogonov among them.
Looking up those names and OMG that guy became such a fucking wretched liberal. Like holy shit he sounds based when he was young and then just the biggest ideologue for fascists
The folks you'll hear about inevitably went that direction after glasnost, because they were willing to trade on existing credibility. The folks who didn't just disappear into obscurity. Digging up old forgotten scholars and piecing together a better picture of history makes for exciting grad school work, but fails to pay the bills at the corporate level.
he seems to have played the convert very well. Lot of pageantry. Who are some good russian historians? I know Alexander Dyukov
Christ. I wish I knew. Leo Tolstoy is the best I've got.
:stalin-bummed: :USSR:
Volkogonov is shit, actually.
Meh. He at least has the credentials of "being there". Anne Applebaum spent her entire life inside the DC Beltway, save for a summer sabbatical in St. Petersburg 40 years ago.
You can shit on him for being a revisionist rather than some Thomas Friedman tier "I heard this from a taxi driver on the way to the airport" bullshit.