Yeah, people say it's very novel like. If I can just put in one comment, be skeptical of what Melville has to say about Stalin. If you ever want to read an opposing view on Stalin, read Another View of Stalin by Ludo Martens.
I haven't read Furr outside of excerpts, but Martens was the leader of the Worker's Party of Belgium and his biography of Stalin seemed pretty sober to me.
That's the vibe I get from the Martens biography as well, although he is a Marxist Leninist in a worker's party so he does not hide the fact that he also admires Stalin, I just don't think the admiration gets in the way of a solid concrete analysis.
Yeah, people say it's very novel like. If I can just put in one comment, be skeptical of what Melville has to say about Stalin. If you ever want to read an opposing view on Stalin, read Another View of Stalin by Ludo Martens.
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I haven't read Furr outside of excerpts, but Martens was the leader of the Worker's Party of Belgium and his biography of Stalin seemed pretty sober to me.
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That's the vibe I get from the Martens biography as well, although he is a Marxist Leninist in a worker's party so he does not hide the fact that he also admires Stalin, I just don't think the admiration gets in the way of a solid concrete analysis.
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