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Mar 13 |
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Has any other book in history been as “prescriptive” as Mein Kampf? Das Kapital doesn't contain a programme, nor does it contain predictions about future function except the argument over the decline of rate of profit (between OCC crises? absolutely) and emiseration (relative? absolute?), both of which were bleedingly obvious in the 50 year trend data. |
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Mar 13 |
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Organized and intentional suicide attacks during military conflicts Citations please: "This question is strictly dedicated to war, in the most common sense of this word." |
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Mar 11 |
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Can the Quran be a valid historical record on the real life of Jesus? Conclusion contained in premise, "a valid historical record on the real life of Jesus?" |
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Mar 5 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on Are there other ancient human rights (surely in its ancient consept) documents like the Cyrus Cylinder (c. 500BC)? |
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Mar 4 |
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Was it Stalin behind the idea of universal elections in the USSR? You're both conflating purging with judicial or extrajudicial execution or S58 imprisonment. The central element of a purge is the removal from power which was within the competence of ordinary party members in local meetings. Throughout the late 20s and 30s party memberships rolled local officials in organisations; the new official usually being more pro-Central leadership than the outgoing. The 29-30 and 32-33 party purges were conducted by within-party commissions and didn't (at that time) result in further action. Stalin didn't sit on a Transsiberian local party purge committee in 32. |
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Mar 4 |
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Was it Stalin behind the idea of universal elections in the USSR? Which purges? The Great 1936 confluence of military and party purges affecting the higher levels? (significantly Stalin and the party elite itself, but also greatly beneficial to the survivors at lower levels) Or the general system of purging which developed in the late 1920s and whose pace accelerated over the 1930s? (spontaneous, but certainly tolerated and encouraged). The system of purges started out locally, was thoroughly encouraged, and eventually habituated. Central party's role in generalising the purges through show-trials is certainly key. But Stalin wasn't the Party until '37. |
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Mar 4 |
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Was it Stalin behind the idea of universal elections in the USSR? "the purges were ordered and organized by Stalin." None of the post-archival histories of the sociology of the purges suggests this. Nor do they suggest that the purges were organised by "party elites." The sociologies I've read suggest that the purges were organised and supported at all levels of the party (from top to bottom) and amongst pro-party individuals. (Ðilas, Fitzpatrick, Solzhenitsyn, etc.). And that they weren't organised to stymie liberal reforms, but ensure the economic position of newer party members against older party members. |
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Mar 2 |
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What scholarly perspectives comparatively analyse mass-killings and genocides? change to an openable question |
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Mar 1 |
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What scholarly perspectives comparatively analyse mass-killings and genocides? minor grammar |
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Mar 1 |
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How did the Chinese help Khrushchev? Sorry, it seems to have been Wilson, read some of these documents from the Presidium: digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/collection/9/… |
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Mar 1 |
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What scholarly perspectives comparatively analyse mass-killings and genocides? clarify, clean up some English expression issues, focus on the opinions of scholars (a concretely answerable question) |
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Mar 1 |
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What scholarly perspectives comparatively analyse mass-killings and genocides? Genocide studies haven't provided a cross-cultural evaluative criteria, and in fact have retreated in to the individual massacre as the unit of analysis in the past 15 years. This is more suited to be a comment while the question doesn't fit stackexchange's format. |
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Mar 1 |
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How did the Chinese help Khrushchev? Its based on a paper I read by Granville (published through Hoover I think) but can't find which published translated transcribed minutes of the PC's meetings regarding the second intervention into Hungary. They dithered continuously waiting for Chinese approval on the second intervention. They were very fraternal in the mid 1950s. |
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Feb 28 |
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How did the Chinese help Khrushchev? Read Granville. PC CPSU had to consult China and Yugoslavia over the Hungarian intervention. The phrase "fraternal party" was a reasonably serious one in inter-state diplomacy amongst actually existing socialist states. Given that there was a fall out in the PC in 1953-57 over "lines" who the CCP would support in a line vote mattered. Khrushchev had to stitch up the Chinese "vote" before he could act, as the CCP had a degree of ideological influence on the internal ideological situation of the CPSU. |
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Feb 28 |
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What was the situation of homosexuals in the early Soviet Union? As I have repeatedly said above, "Homosexuality" has specific meanings in English and didn't exist prior to the 19th century. Much like "gay" didn't exist until sometime between 1950 and 1970 in North America. Men have been fucking and loving men; and women have been fucking and loving women; in all kinds of ways throughout history, but the term "homosexual" reduces this to a specific historical cultural and sexual set of practices (in English). There are no transhistorical sexual categories, see any of the modern sexologists or historians of sexuality. |
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Feb 28 |
answered | How did the Chinese help Khrushchev? |
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Feb 28 |
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What was the situation of homosexuals in the early Soviet Union? I'm suggesting that your terms are anachronisms meaning that your question is unanswerable as there was no "gay" situation in 1917. |
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Feb 27 |
answered | “Brown-Bread Eater” meaning as used in an insult |
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Feb 27 |
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“Brown-Bread Eater” meaning as used in an insult Supply a fuller citation including the year of publication? |
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Feb 27 |
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What was the situation of homosexuals in the early Soviet Union? If homosexuality is culturally neutral why do Western medical practitioners use the term "men who have sex with men" in preference to "homosexual"? There are multiple conceptions of human freedom, substantive, formal, etc. The question isn't answerable without a specific perspective on the nature of human freedom being put in an answer. An Enlightenment Liberal bourgeois response will be substantially different to a Marxist response; one will emphasise the formal the other the substantive. What is sexual freedom anyway? |
