(Part 2) Best russian history books according to redditors
We found 731 Reddit comments discussing the best russian history books. We ranked the 220 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
There's a major wrinkle missing: the war between the two chief designers of the soviet space program that torpedoed all possibility of a soviet moon success.
Sergei Korolev and Valentin Glushko had a long-standing and increasingly vitriolic disagreement over which propellants the Soviet space program should be using. Korolev was in favor of cryogenic propellants—liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen (or RP1 + LOX, too). Glushko, on the other hand, favored storable hypergols instead of cryogens.
Both have their advantages and disadvantages; cryogens need to be kept very cold (or for LH2, very very cold) and because of that, fueling procedures for cryogen-powered rockets are very complex and involve a lot of conditioning and chill-down, and extra mechanisms for recapturing boil-off. Further, rockets can't be stored with fuel in them (important for ICBMs), and generally have to be de-tanked immediately if a launch is scrubbed.
Hypergols, on the other hand, are generally fine at room temperature and you can leave hypergolic-powered rockets fueled up and ready to go for extended periods without worrying about the fuel boiling away. However, hypergolic fuels tend to be murderously, hideously toxic. This means that not only are your pad workers in danger whenever they work with fuel—it means that if your rocket crashes or blows up, it spews out a horrifyingly toxic death-cloud.
The N1 was Korolev's baby. Originally intended to be used to reach Mars (or Venus, depending on who you ask), it was retasked by the Politburo and the N1-L3 plan was quickly beaten into shape. By that point in their careers, Glushko and Korolev were no longer speaking to each other; Korolev was in very poor health and died during an operation in 1965. The N1 eventually flew four times, but all four flights ended in various failures (one of the rockets exploded with the equivalent of about 1kt of TNT, making it one of the largest human-created non-nuclear explosions ever recorded). Glushko was eventually installed as the chief designer of the entire program and canceled the N1. His decision was made at least partially to spite Korolev's memory, as the N1 was Korolev's rocket.
The truly disappointing thing here is that it's very likely the N1's fifth flight, had it had one, would have been successful. However, it was 1972 at that point and the Moon wasn't really seen as a worthwhile destination for the Soviet space program anymore. Without a destination, the N1 was just a ludicrously expensive and overpowered rocket with no mission.
A fascinating historical footnote is how the Soviet space program in general, and their lunar program specifically, operated much more like how one might expect a US program to operate—numerous design bureaus were simultaneously executing several different plans at the same time, with the idea that the most successful would be expanded upon to become the "official" program. Conversely, the US used a much more Soviet-style "centrally planned" approach, allowing NASA to coordinate and control all aspects of the program through its army of contractors.
If you want to read about the Soviet space program, there are some great books available. The first—and the one I'd recommend most—is a two-volume work by Dr. Asif Siddiqi, who is the preeminent living expert on the Soviet's aborted lunar program. Part one is here, and part two is here. You can also get a single combined PDF of the whole thing (for free!) here.
The other work is Boris Chertok's Ракеты и люди ("Rakety i lyudi," or "Rockets and People") which you can get for free from NASA here, split into four volumes. Chertok was an engineer who worked in the Soviet aerospace industry and who was part of the Space Race from that side of the Iron Curtain; his first-hand experience with the Soviet side of the race makes for an incredibly illuminating read.
https://www.amazon.com/Midnight-Chernobyl-Greatest-Nuclear-Disaster-ebook/dp/B07GNV7PNH
There's EPUBs floating around of it too. It has footnotes!
> And you say something like "whoever did this crime is a real sicko, a real piece of work", and the butler starts FREAKING OUT, asking you what your problem is, asking why you hate him IN PARTICULAR.
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However, some in the Jewish community took offense because there are "globalist Jews" who see Jews as the ultimate globalists, and this "globalization" as bringing about the "Jewish Century". These are not my words, these are the words of Yuri Slezkine as he wrote in his 2006 book literally called "The Jewish Century":
>This masterwork of interpretative history begins with a bold declaration: The Modern Age is the Jewish Age--and we are all, to varying degrees, Jews.
>The assertion is, of course, metaphorical. But it underscores Yuri Slezkine's provocative thesis. Not only have Jews adapted better than many other groups to living in the modern world, they have become the premiere symbol and standard of modern life everywhere.
>Slezkine argues that the Jews were, in effect, among the world's first free agents. They traditionally belonged to a social and anthropological category known as "service nomads," an outsider group specializing in the delivery of goods and services. Their role, Slezkine argues, was part of a broader division of human labor between what he calls Mercurians-entrepreneurial minorities--and Apollonians--food-producing majorities.
>Since the dawning of the Modern Age, Mercurians have taken center stage. In fact, Slezkine argues, modernity is all about Apollonians becoming Mercurians--urban, mobile, literate, articulate, intellectually intricate, physically fastidious, and occupationally flexible. Since no group has been more adept at Mercurianism than the Jews, he contends, these exemplary ancients are now model moderns.
Yuri believes in "Mercurian supremacy" in a way
>The book concentrates on the drama of the Russian Jews, including émigrés and their offspring in America, Palestine, and the Soviet Union. But Slezkine has as much to say about the many faces of modernity--nationalism, socialism, capitalism, and liberalism--as he does about Jewry. Marxism and Freudianism, for example, sprang largely from the Jewish predicament, Slezkine notes, and both Soviet Bolshevism and American liberalism were affected in fundamental ways by the Jewish exodus from the Pale of Settlement.
>Rich in its insight, sweeping in its chronology, and fearless in its analysis, this sure-to-be-controversial work is an important contribution not only to Jewish and Russian history but to the history of Europe and America as well.
This is important because if you view the r/judaism subreddit right now they literally "ironically" self-identify as "(((globalists)))"
It's not a term that was used to demonize Jews, it was a term used to demonize people who exploit global trade/migration to enrich themselves, and so the subset of Jews who believe in this ideology decided to embrace the misanthropic term as a sort of "victimhood"
Much like how people in the UK protest Corbyn for his "anti-semitism" for just criticizing Israel
Benjamin Wittes leads one the most powerful public policy influencing thinktank in America called the "Brookings institute", and he has openly stated on Twitter that he see's "America" as a "Jewish experiment" even more important than Israel/Zionism
>"There are two great 20th Century experiments in Jewish life. Zionism is the overrated one. The United States wins"
The point I make is that this is a very real ideology that tries to hide behind allegations of "antisemitism", even when those criticizing such people go at lengths to depict "globalism" as a non-Jewish affair by emphasizing non-Jewish leaders
I'm at the point wherein I just double-down
The Jewish community at large needs to denounce these misanthropic people
Them lining up to defend ultra capitalists like Rothschild and Soros as well is misanthropic behavior
>French Jewish leader blasts politician who called Macron ‘President Rothschild’
>Trump accused of anti-Semitism over claim Soros funds ‘elevator screamers’
If I am not supposed to criticize Jews just for being Jews, then Jews in turn should not take the side of a Jewish person when that person faces criticism just because that person is ethnically Jewish.
The weaponization of the term "antisemitism" effectively destroyed its legitimacy. A person of Jewish heritage can be prejudiced against others just like a European/African/Asian may feel the same. All prejudice needs to be equally treated.
Why is it that I as a white am expected to disavow exploitative/racist/corrupt elites from my own ethnic background, but some groups are exempt from this obligation? Will that not just enable and incite exploitative/racist/corrupt behavior from those groups elites? It obviously will.
This is more evidence that John McDonnell is a poorly-read faux-Marxist Fabian sidling up to Capital.
It's easy to take pot shots at Stalin and claim that the USSR 'wasn't real Socialism'.
It takes more time to fully understand the depth of capitalist encirclement, and both internal and external capitalist counter-revolution which was constantly trying to destroy the USSR from within and without from the moment the Bolsheviks were in power.
Stalin is both the man responsible for significant political repression and the reason the USSR survived to raise the average lifespan from 34 in 1917 to 65 in 1950 and survive WW2.
The USSR went from a third world peasant-agriculture backwater to the second leading global superpower in 30 years. Brazil started off in the same economic state in 1917 and by 1950 was miles behind the USSR.
The USSR ramped up industrialisation within 20 years to the extent that they were able to save Europe from Hitler.
If you want a more accurate view of Stalin see what Marxist Richard Wolff says about him. He is no fan of Stalin but has a more balanced viewpoint.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NfU6PzRzmI
https://www.amazon.com/Class-Theory-History-Capitalism-Communism/dp/0415933188
I'm glad you asked! This Che manga was absolutely hilarious to read. Really goofy stuff.
This comic about Lenin was pretty cool too, though it was a lot more educational than the last one. There's also one on Marx by the same publishing company.
Richard Wolff has actually coauthored a book on why the USSR failed using the theories in this course. The book is called Class Theory and History: Capitalism and Communism in the USSR. http://www.amazon.com/Class-Theory-History-Capitalism-Communism/dp/0415933188
I highly suggest reading some of the personal accounts made by people who were actually there that evening before you break out your tinfoil hat. You'll find that you're quite mistaken. Here are a few good primers:
Book Link: Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win
Fresh Air podcast. This was the Nov 21 2017 show.
A history of Russia.
I'm reading Midnight in Chernobyl now. Absolutely incredible, the story of that event.
Marx for Beginners and Lenin for Beginners are decent books.
Trường Chinh's August Revolution and The Resistance Will Win are amazing.
I remember reading "A History of Russia" in college, and that was a pretty good starting point. As well, I would suggest most books by Richard Pipes.
book about the experiment
Richard Wolff's book Class Theory and History: Capitalism and Communism in the USSR is an analytical work on the USSR from a socialist perspective and goes into the economics and how they could have differed from a class based perspective.
People here and elsewhere seem to hate Wolff for his call for worker cooperatives, despite not understanding that he is very much for a planned economy and far more drastic changes than that, but I think his analysis of the USSR is pretty useful and insightful, even if it pisses off a bunch of Marxist-Leninists.
Soyuz: A Universal Spacecraft
Midnight in Chernobyl
I can't recommend it enough.
Oh man I was just reading Kasparov on that, one sec:
(you've probably read it but anyway)
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/24/trumps-courting-of-putin-sinister-and-may-spell-doom-for-american-leadership-kasparov-says.html
His book:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Winter-Coming-Vladimir-Enemies-Stopped/dp/1610396200
Winter is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must be Stopped
> Editorialize the Headline much? The plan wasn't destroyed nor is there talk of any cold war.
The stage was set for a new massive arms race. At the time several world players and MSM outlets took note of this fact:
How to Avoid a New Cold War
Gorbachev: US could start new Cold War
The New Cold War: Putin's Russia and the Threat to the West
I may have sensationalized the headline, worded it wrongly, but I feel that today President Obama has taken yet another step in emptying the new Cold War.
Edit: The amazon link had a paranthesis that broke the syntax.
Of course. The pipeline is also very important to Western Europe which has been bullied into signing unprofitable agreements with Gazprom and Rosneft by the Russian govt for the past 10 years.
A good read about the Russian "energy war" is "The New Cold War" by Edward Lucas (http://www.amazon.com/New-Cold-War-Putins-Russia/dp/0230606121/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1218302811&sr=8-1)
Ah; because I think Russia is a bad actor, I'm a clueless liberal - is that right? Perhaps I should read more InfoWars, escape that MSM bubble.
Snark aside, this book nicely sums up my feelings on Russia under Putin. I'd recommend it to anyone with an interest in geopolitics.
Looks like one of them says "Soyuz". Possibly this one: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1852336579/ref=rdr_ext_tmb and another one says "Atlas". Not sure which book, though.
Basically by forcing them.
I suggest reading Prisoner's of Hunger by Miron Dolot. It is an autobiographical account of being a child in Ukraine when their agriculture was collectivized. It gets pretty heavy at times but allows readers to see what it was like.
Just Lucas.
http://www.amazon.com/New-Cold-War-Putins-Russia/dp/0230606121/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1218348945&sr=8-1
He's sincere I believe (ie not just a spin doctor) and has good credentials. I just don't really agree with him - I think hes stuck in another era. He hasn't given much thought to how the other side in the cold-war is not exactly trustworthy either.
I'll add that it's mostly, but not entirely accurate. It's a dramatization, not a documentary. Some of the characters are switched around, some conversations didn't happen, some events that did happen aren't mentioned (the big omissions are the Chernobyl Civil Defense Chief, who had a working high-level dosimeter, who tried to warn the higher ups of the actual radiation readings within an hour of the accident, another is the the firefighters who drained the upper basement of most of the water before the three divers went it (that's why it was only knee deep). Some incidents didn't happen, like the Helicopter crash (which occured later I think) and the helicopters dropping the sand/boron mix via the pulley system didn't happen till the third day. The first day they simply tossed the bags out of the side of the Helicopter by hand.
I'm currently reading Midnight in Chernobyl, which is a pretty good companion piece to the show.
https://www.amazon.com/Midnight-Chernobyl-Greatest-Nuclear-Disaster-ebook/dp/B07GNV7PNH
There is a cool book on the subject !
https://www.amazon.com/Jewish-Century-Yuri-Slezkine/dp/0691127603
It's written by an American Historian. Basically, it explains why Jewish pepole are fit to thrive in today's world, mainly due to their culture. I highly recommand it, it's very interesting
It was honestly these comic books: https://www.amazon.com/Lenin-Beginners-Pantheon-Documentary-Comic/dp/0394737156.
I was taught all that propaganda in high school and college about communism being silly and not working, but once I learned some of their basic ideas and found they weren’t dumb, I read more and more and it kept making sense (and didn’t stop making sense).
I read a book about the Holodomor in Ukraine. It is basically the memoirs of a guy who experienced it firsthand when he was a teenager, and the whole story is utterly brutal and haunting.
At the end, the author was drafted into fighting for the Soviets in WWII. He was captured by Nazi Germany and he remained in west Germany after the war, and then managed to secure passage to the US where he lives to this day.
The last passage in the book is this: "My mother and my brother, who suffered with me, who shared with me the last morsel of food, and to whom I owe my survival, remained in the village. They had no other choice but to continue working on the collective farm. World War II separated us and what happened to them afterwards I don’t know."
Here's the book: http://www.amazon.com/Execution-Hunger-The-Hidden-Holocaust/dp/0393304167
Absolutely true. Read Ferguson as an antidote to the reflexive blame the West, blame capitalist development mentality.
Also to understand the pro-imperialist position I think the best book on the subject is
"Empire: The Russian Empire and Its Rivals," an excellent source of material on multiethnic empires and their internal logic.
It’s like 7 grand, so you’re not wrong. it goes to a good cause, and continued research though, so...
Lyudmila Trut and a science author actually wrote a book on the subject for the general populace. It’s mostly a biography on Dimitri Belyayev and the aforementioned Lyudmila Trut, who were two of the most influential members of the study.
I thought it was pretty good
This looks like a good bet. Can you ask your library to get this for you? https://www.amazon.com/Ukraine-Crisis-What-Means-West/dp/0300211597/ref=nodl_
Not all of them.
Example - Yuri Gagarin
Every Russian knows the famous Gagarin family. Very wealthy, very powerful, and very cruel.
The main branch of Gagarins fled Russia,but Alexei Gagarin couldn't. He married the daughter of a wealthy peasant (unthinkable before 1918), and pretended he was a serf's grandson. The Soviet authorities believed him, and the astronaut was seen as a good proletariat till he died in 1968.
In early 1970s, an English scholar who later studied the cosmonaut was staying in a boarding house, owned by a Princess Gagarina. She confirmed to him that the astronaut was her brother's grandson, and would have become a Prince if things would have gone the other way. She could reveal it now Yuri was dead.
I have read this book
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008MWG8HC/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
In that book, only one branch dies out (and the last one died in the 1980s, after a head wound during WW2 made him incapable of real life). The others somehow managed to reproduce and survive to this day.
That particular bit is from the book "Chernobyl Notebook" by Grigoriy Medvedev. (Amazon) Kind of dry sometimes, but horribly fascinating.
Although in the genre, "Atomic Accidents" by James Mahaffey (Amazon) is a somewhat more engaging read, though isn't quite as powerful.
Both are written by nuclear engineers and are mostly apolitical.
>Well, try me
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DQ26J2PADMX8pJsxnwDhnB3v56Rva5fNGlljmYuDNNo/edit?usp=sharing
feel free to spool through. My only regret was there was page limit for the essay, there was a lot more I'd have wanted to write about.
>"policies applied to Kuban" is very different from "policies following ethnic Ukrainians".
well read into my document. They weren't that different since it was the reversal of Ukrainiaziation; with the implementation of Russification and the restrictions of movement.
>Kuban wasn't primarily Ukrainian-populated region, and any policies that could target that region would also target all Russians living there
Nope: The census for 1926 it was noted that there was a total population in the Kuban region of 3,343,893 of which 1,644.518 (49.2%) stated that they were Ukrainian, and 1,428,587 (42.7%) stated they were Russian. Other figures from the same census state that Ukrainian speakers made up 55% of the population of the area. In the 2002 Russian census it states that only 2% of the population speak Ukrainian and only 0.9% have been marked as being ethnically Ukrainian.
The region was ethnically and linguistically more Ukrainian then Russian. After the holodomor it was another story.
edit: If you are interested in reading on the subject, this is great book https://www.amazon.com/Holodomor-Reader-Sourcebook-1932-1933-Ukraine/dp/1894865286
Helped me write the essay. Essentially a collection of essays from historians on the subject, laws, legislation, eye witness accounts, decrees and orders from the government etc.
So. I've see several problems in your work.
First one, consider this passage: "decree was passed on from Stalin and Molotov to OGPU on the 22nd of January 1933, to stop Ukrainian peasants from fleeing Ukraine and ethnic Ukrainians in Kuban in search of food". I haven't managed to find the original text of this decree. However, most sources found on the internet cite this decree as such: "запретить всеми возможными средствами массовое передвижение крестьянства Украины и Северного Кавказа в города" ("prohibit by all means possible mass movement of the peasants of Ukraine and the North Caucasus to the cities"). Note the lack of the word "Ukrainian". Russian peasants that lived in those regions were affected by the movement control just the same. "The Years of Hunger" (Davies, Wheatcroft) also doesn't have a word on any kind of movement control implemented for specific ethnicities.
Second one, considering the "blackboards". You failed to mention several things about them. 1) this method of oppression wasn't in fact introduced during Holodomor; 2) it was an initiative of Ukrainian government, not some directive from Stalin. ((source)[http://www.istpravda.com.ua/research/2010/11/27/6591/#sdendnote12sym])
Finally, this typical obsession with Ukraine, to the extent of calling Kuban "an Ukrainian region of Russia". Yes, about half of the population there was Ukrainian. Other half was Russian, though, and they suffered just the same. No mention of what happened in Kazakhstan. Why? Probably because the idea of "Ukrainian genocide" was promoted, but the idea of "Kazakh genocide" was not (actually, it was, but it is far less known).
> If you are interested in reading on the subject, this is great book https://www.amazon.com/Holodomor-Reader-Sourcebook-1932-1933-Ukraine/dp/1894865286
> by Bohdan Klid (Editor), Alexander J. Motyl (Editor)
Oh yeah, there is no reason to think that book on Holodomor written by Ukrainians could possibly be biased. No reason at all.
In turn, I can only recommend this book, already mentioned earlier. It is an extensive analysis of the event that doesn't try to push any agenda.
Russian identity is a part of their culture and always has been. Nationalism is not new nor a 90s concept. We just looked at it differently after the CW ended. This is a great Russian history book that outlines this. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0674011147/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1483129928&sr=8-2&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=russia+and+the+russians&dpPl=1&dpID=415C9TF7GQL&ref=plSrch
This book, you mean?
I'm in a college history Modern Russia course. Here are the books assigned:
A History of Russia,
Russian Orthodoxy on the Eve of Revolution,
Everyday Stalinism,
and Armageddon Averted
Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie is a classic, if you are interested in the collapse of Imperial Russia and the rise of the USSR. Also, The Russian Revolution by Sheila Fitzpatrick.
This book is a eye witness account of the Ukranian famine, including the methods used to force the farmers into compliance. Highly recommended if you're interested in the subject.
http://www.amazon.com/Class-Theory-History-Capitalism-Communism/dp/0415933188
Follow up:
How would you rate this book? I have read some of it and found it fascinating but was curious as to how accurate it was:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008MWG8HC/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
> Look for additional foreign influence on behalf of the Republicans...
It's already ramping up for the midterms. The author of this book - a meticulous study on the impact of Russian discourse saboteurs on the '16 election.
She believes it's highly likely that Russia handed Trump the election (it only took ~80K votes across swing states). Here's an article that summarizes it well.
I don't know about a documentary, but there are two good history books by Asif Siddiqi on the Soviet space program:
They're thick books chock-full of details on the history of the Soviet space program. They are not light reads, but they're excellent.
On Kindle it's less than $10.
Edit: https://www.amazon.com/Collusion-Secret-Meetings-Russia-Helped-ebook/dp/B0776YZF4P
The West: Encounters & Transformations, Combined Volume (4th Edition) by By Brian Levack, Edward Muir, and Meredith Veldman is a great book focusing on "the changing nature of the West—how the definition of the West has evolved and has been transformed throughout history". It looks at culture through beliefs, ideas, technologies, and peoples, both outside the West and within it.
Terrorism: A History by Randall Law is a great book that looks at terrorism from ancient Assyria to present (post-9/11) and discusses what is used and how/why it is used. It doesn't just focus on terror in the Middle-East, but also discusses topics including the Klu Klux Klan and Algeria (under French colonization).
Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference by Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper. The book starts with ancient Rome and China, but continues across Asia, Europe, the Americas, and Africa. This book discusses Empire, not just through the military, but through culture, economy, and religion.
A History of Russia by Nicholas V. Riasanovsky and Mark D. Steinberg is focused on Russia, but looks at the formation and continuation of Russia from its time as Kievan Rus through the Soviet Union to present. It's not just a military focus, but includes political, international, economic, social, and cultural history as well.
I'm not sure what type of history (except military in general) that you are interested in, but these books (though some are expensive) can give you a general idea of some of the major historical topics/themes/ideas. As it happens, I have all of these books and would be more than willing to give them to you. Bear in mind that I am in Canada so shipping might be an issue.
Korolev
Sputnik and the Soviet Space Challenge
The Soviet Space Race With Apollo
Just on general searches for titles.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Frontline-Ukraine-Borderlands-Richard-Sakwa/dp/1784535273/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1523461623&sr=8-1&keywords=ukraine+crisis
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ukraine-Crisis-What-Means-West/dp/0300211597/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1523461695&sr=8-2&keywords=ukraine+crisis
Titles like that are already a few years old.
I could offer you a reading list to elucidate my points about Russia and the negatives of imperialism within burgeoning industrialist society. Right now however, I'm actually very stretched thin. I'm on a business trip that looks like will now be extended. I'm working just under 100 hours per week now that I've inherited two more projects that were supposed to be assigned to others. It's kind of a cop-out to not further expand on my earlier statements. But since I don't perceive you as being particularly close-minded (if anything you seem appropriately honest about what you do and do not know) it might actually be beneficial to simply provide you with the data as it was presented to me, and then let you draw your own conclusions.
For starters I'd recommend reading about the history:
http://www.amazon.com/Russia-Russians-History-Geoffrey-Hosking/dp/0674011147
This book gives a very wide-angle approach to Russia, Russians, and their governments.
http://www.amazon.com/Everything-Forever-Until-More-Formation/dp/0691121176/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_c
This book offers a bit more of an intimate perspective about perhaps the most relevant generation of Post-Soviet influence.
http://www.amazon.com/Blowback-Second-Consequences-American-Empire/dp/0805075593
This book offers some insight into America's foreign policy during the 20th century. In particular the negative impact of crafting foreign policy through an aggressive campaign of global occupation. The latter chapters talk about China and the former Soviet Union and draws many disturbing parallels with the United States defense spending habits in the last decade.
http://www.amazon.com/Peoples-History-United-States-1492-Present/dp/B004HZ6XWS/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1300861749&sr=1-2
This book will perhaps be the most controversial read out of the list. It deals with the very unfortunate relationship between corporatism and American politics as well as the various stages of civil rights and labor movements. There is also a great deal of additional facts about imperialism in America which expands many of the points made by Chalmers Johnson.
http://www.amazon.com/What-Means-Libertarian-Charles-Murray/dp/0767900391/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1300861920&sr=1-1
There are several areas of agreement in this book between the views expressed by Chalmers Johnson and Howard Zinn. While the principles certainly come from different places, there is a well-reasoned, and thoughtful common ground. It is challenging from any perspective to completely agree or disagree with these narratives, but the contrast is most refreshing.
http://www.amazon.com/Pig-That-Wants-Eaten-Experiments/dp/0452287448/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1300862132&sr=1-1
This book is basically a breath mint. The subjects being tackled in the rest of these books can often be somewhat troubling. This book will offer you short thought experiments that will prove entertaining as well as provocative. They will also help provide some lightheartedness to the mix.
How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution https://www.amazon.com/dp/022644418X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_YVXgzbH16G4BM
Wonderful book on the subject.
Energy was the sector where the EU thought it could do most to reduce Moldova's vulnerability.
But Gazprom has fought a tough rearguard action against a planned interconnector across the western border into Romania [from Ungheni to Iasi], using its 51% share in Moldova Gaz & the subsequent capture of the local Econ Min [run by the Democratic Party] to constantly slow the process down.
[Gazprom first disputed who should own the interconnector, then pushed for multiple tenders, & finally tried to keep the pipe diameter to an 'emergencies-only' minimum.
But the pipeline was finally opened in Aug 2014 [though Moldova now needs a new compressor-station & an onward pipeline to Chisinau to be truly self-sufficient]. pg 166: https://www.amazon.com/Ukraine-Crisis-What-Means-West/dp/0300211597/ref=pd_ybh_a_3?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=QKNYFVQPW3A5NRDMZVZX
I read a good one, but I don't remember it bringing up the black army much.
https://www.amazon.com/Russian-Revolution-Sheila-Fitzpatrick/dp/0199237670/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1486185536&sr=8-1&keywords=the+russian+revolution+sheila
It's based on the most recent evidence available and it's relatively neutral as to the intent of the actors, neither rabidly anti-communist nor "Lenin made the peeplz feel good" take on it.
It goes up through the agricultural collectivization stage under Stalin.
Since we are having a nice rational conversation I'll continue. If it comes down to credibility than it's safe to say neither of us knows the actual truth. That said, I think it's unfair to conflate the author with the source and, by doing so, discredit the author with clear examples of opinion/analysis from other writers- the Kenya article and secret Muslim article both state that they are opinions as compared to the Rowan Scarborough piece which is holding itself out as journalism/news. And to discredit it by saying it is "openly biased to conservative viewpoints" is cherry picking - Luke Harding just released a book called Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win - so that end, I'd say they are both coming in with their own biases. BUT as a general rule I find ad hominem inappropriate, especially when one side is using anonymous sources. Looking at the Harding article I'm skeptical - Manafort was never logged in, the only corroborating evidence is an anonymous source's weirdly specific description of Manafort and some other person's notes which listed "Manford" and "Russians, along with the stealth edits Guardian made are all red flags for me.
if you need me to say I am a Nazi so that you wont consider me 'hateful'...then fine...I will do that. After all the Nazis were not necessarily opposed to jewish interests (haavara agreement, Lehi militant organization)
whether or not people had some strange theories about jews and blood libel or well poisoning is pretty irrelevant. Such conspiracies do tend to tell you one thing: people didn't tend to trust jews very much in history. And this was an oddly non random trend in history...you don't see conspiracies about gypsies or basques or Scottish people or any other religious/ethnic group like you see about jews.
Jews cannot be all that scattered if they managed to...say...unite enough to force the UK to give them Israel. And jewish organizations such as the jewish world congress or jewish European congress have done a great job at various things such as making it illegal to criticize jews, protect the right to circumcise babies and often in various cases promote communist political theory.
jews are often self conscious of how jewish their organizations tend to become...this Sigmund freud explicitly regarded carl jung to be his token goy in psychoanalysis....and polish communist party members frequently changed their name to appear less jewish. It is quite typical for jews to change their name, as im sure you have noticed (Sumner Rothstein, for example).
you are basically forcing yourself to choose between 2 ridiculous extremes. There is never an assumption that jews are some sort of uniform hive mind...not even hitler suggested that (in fact he made a huge number of jews 'honorary aryans' and accepted them in the Nazi party)...and it is equally absurd to pretend that jews don't even notice the fact they are jewish and could not possibly feel allied to the welfare of jewish people. Both of these extremes are illogical. I have a more nuanced view on this....you should try to as well.
If jews have tremendous control over our cultural production...from schools to media and Hollywood etc...then it stands to reason that they will have an impact on our culture that essentially makes us more jewish. And you don't have to take my word for it....read what jews themselves say about this...for example: https://www.amazon.com/Jewish-Century-Yuri-Slezkine/dp/0691127603
O.k., I will. What do you recommend? While you're at it you can do some reading yourself, something like "[Execution by Hunger: The Hidden Holocaust] (http://www.amazon.com/Execution-Hunger-Holocaust-Miron-Dolot/dp/0393304167/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1459164660&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=Holodomor+genocide&refinements=p_72%3A2661619011)"
>Seven million people in the "breadbasket of Europe" were deliberately starved to death at Stalin's command. This story has been suppressed for half a century. Now, a survivor speaks.
>In 1929, in an effort to destroy the well-to-do peasant farmers, Joseph Stalin ordered the collectivization of all Ukrainian farms. In the ensuing years, a brutal Soviet campaign of confiscations, terrorizing, and murder spread throughout Ukrainian villages. What food remained after the seizures was insufficient to support the population. In the resulting famine as many as seven million Ukrainians starved to death
Or just Google "Holomodor Genocide" and look [at the images] (https://www.google.com/search?q=holodomor+genocide&espv=2&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjh95a9pOPLAhVJeSYKHWG5DXoQ_AUICCgC&biw=1415&bih=732) if you have the stomach for it...
We're not talking about propaganda, we're talking about academic, peer-reviewed data. It's generally accepted Russian trolls did swing the election in favor of Trump with misinformation campaigns and targeting specific demographics of voters (including us Bernie supporters):
https://slate.com/technology/2018/12/russian-trolls-election-black-americans-senate-reports.html
https://www.wired.com/story/did-russia-affect-the-2016-election-its-now-undeniable/
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/01/how-russia-helped-to-swing-the-election-for-trump
There's even a peer-reviewed white paper on the subject that insists Russian trolls did swing the election:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GJM18PL/?creativeASIN=B07GJM18PL&linkCode=w61&imprToken=IzeQBkKB5g-k9o0REYjSUg&slotNum=1&tag=thneyo0f-20
Bourgoise response? What are you Trotsky? You've combined an initial redirect to turn the subject to electoral college, a very low level "but America is worse so what we do is bad" redirect called out in books like winter is coming by gary Kasparov (Russian chess world champion) [1] followed by a vague "there's not enough info" when linked to an official report and an interview with someone charged with investigating election influence in Germany. Then you end it with a "I got into polisci because I like communism" indictment of the status quo to mask multiple countries with nothing to gain from calling out a weak unstable country like Russia caling out a weak breaking apart country like Russia. Russia has everything to gain from influencing countries and a history of sloppily murdering their spies afterwards [2] and every other country has grown far better boogy men since the cold war.
These are all tropes of attempting to discredit multiple learned sources saying the same thing because theyre describing the same underlying problem. This isnt anything new, its the same tactics used in Ukraine, in west Berlin, et al. Its just new people saying it.
[1] Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped https://www.amazon.com/dp/1610396200/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_XwpzCb1H7HF5X
[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvinenko
Read books on Russian history you uneducated prick. You lost the argument. Tell me something about Russian Empire that you know and provide sources for that. Read Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Pushkin. Understand what is Russian satire. What is Russian orthodox church and its role in our history. Don't be an ignorant cunt.
Here you go, as you probably don't speak Russian:
http://www.amazon.com/Empire-Russian-Its-Rivals/dp/0300097263
That is not true, read http://www.amazon.com/The-Jewish-Century-Yuri-Slezkine/dp/0691127603
In what direction? For the socialism inner contradictions, look no further to the dismantling of money as an distributed information system of resource and labour availability and need. See Mises's Socialism for an excellent explanation. Mises posterior works aren't as good, especially the pseudo science called praxeology, but as an analyst he was right on.
For the historical basis to Russia's empire, look into Russian Empire: Space, People, Power, 1700-1930 and especially into Empire: The Russian Empire and Its Rivals, which is much more 'russian' in viewpoint - and sadly, in style, being more academic, stilted and rambling than the quick read of the first book.
For the demonization part, just read the dreck that passes for 'analysis' in the western media. People are paid to write that? It's either absolute ignorance or just propaganda trying to raise back the cold war fears.