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Though he recognizes that his position on Stalin is controversial, and he acknowledges that “many mistakes were made under Stalin??s leadership in the Soviet Union,” he never gets more specific on the nature of Stalin??s evil...
...informal discussions at Russell’s Memorial Drive apartment. In all, students commit anywhere from 10 to 20 hours per week on the seminar.Seemingly intimidating, Russell’s approach is hardly a stuffy, austere pursuit.First, Russell is tremendously entertaining, packing his informal lectures with one-liners. From Stalin??“the best friend of lepidopterists”—to social sciences—“government and economics are highly advanced forms of witchcraft”—Russell has an opinion on most things, and those opinions are usually very...
...question of whether he was a member of the party too. Bird and Sherwin conclude, with an air of mystery, “we do not, and we cannot, know the extent of his commitment” to the Communist Party, except that it was short-lived. Stalin??s purges clearly left him disillusioned with the Soviet experiment...
...Soviet Union, artists produced propaganda to prop up Joseph Stalin??s murderous regime...
Whereas Soviet artists produced propaganda that directly supported Stalin??s regime, Italian literati during the 1920s and 1930s adopted a more hands-off, apathetic approach to the rise of Mussolini’s fascism. While many of Italy’s artists and intellectuals were in theory “liberal,” meaning sympathetic to the democratic monarchy, “liberal writers were totally absent from the political scene,” said Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Lino Pertile. “They did not think it was their business to meddle...