The title is The Second Russian Revolution by Alex Roxburgh, published by BBC books lol
and how maverick Boris Yeltsin, backed by the people, suffered for being one step ahead
maverick Boris Yeltsin, backed by the people, suffered for being one step ahead
lmao
Wow, and they wanted 16 pounds for that? Damn.
It's from 1991 so that would be something like £35 today, pretty sure it's from a charity shop, the person who got it for me is fairly apolitical(but votes labour and has class consciousness) but probably just saw it and was like No_Values is always rating about that commie stuff, he'll like it, without look into it's veracity too much lol
I bought a communist friend a Chomsky book back when I was still a radlib. Is there any hope for redemption?
I'm an anarchist myself comrade, but :chompsky: and his whole 'justified hierarchies' muddied the waters quite a bit, get them some Bookchin or Kropotkin( Ursula K. Le Guin for something non-theory)
That is understandable, I don't think many people are aware of the intricacies concerning the USSR anyways.
And when it comes to presents I always try to have an attitude of "It is the thought that counts", and this sounds like at least that is the case here.Definitely, there was a decent level of thought behind it, I really appreciated it, even if the content within is dogshit
Ligachev constantly suffers unfair smears and is scapegoated as a hardliner. In reality Ligachev was a moderate who supported much of perestroika until Gorbachev went way too far and even started attacking the Party.
Yeah seriously poor Yegor got portrayed in the west as some sort of arch-stalinist hell bent on the destruction of reforms but in reality he probably had the better reform vision than Gorbachev did.
lol you're not actually going to read that are you. If the answer is yes and you haven't read Settlers yet.....
Haha probably not, it's in my bathroom atm(in case of another toilet paper shortage)
Still could be good for some examples of neo-liberal misconstruing methods
