guantanamo bey Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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you don’t have to believe someone like grover furr to agree there was a coup planned against stalin in may 1937, in a collaboration between red army head tukhachevsky and trotsky and others. you can just read the leading pro-trotsky historian isaac deutscher for that. seriously.

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it culminates in the so-called cultural turn led by historian roger griffin starting around the 1990s and his proclamation of a “new consensus” (his “consensus”) in fascism studies. by this pt the marxist analysis is virtually gone.

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it’s almost all nonfiction, but as for novels (and for conspiracy theorists) i recommend “anthem” by noah hawley.

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one of the accounts timothy snyder offers in “bloodlands” of how many people the soviets killed in poland before the nazi invaders arrived seems to derive from a nazi sympathizer; and other sources claim ukrainian nationalists committed the crimes. https://t.co/1FFQjtrkrE

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you can read a lot about the los angeles angle in mike davis’s city of quartz, which i never get tired of boosting, but also the first book below. and the second book is open access, here: https://t.co/oN5aH6WTWF https://t.co/YQ7DM8Esm3

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i still haven’t found a good book on the ottoman empire. “Distant Ties: Germany, the Ottoman Empire, and the Construction of the Baghdad Railway” didn’t arrive before i flew out. i’m looking for a museum to go to for the history.

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i’ve tweeted about this before but it just popped into my head again. how the hell did hannah arendt get away with writing a book called “the origins of totalitarianism” that excludes fascist italy, the origin of the word “totalitarianism,” from the origins of totalitarianism?

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@FullCircle53574 it was boots riley. i just realized how famous he is. directed “sorry to bother you,” a terrifying movie.

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“(Absent entirely are the connections that Ed Sanders traced to Scientology and the Process Church, before removing them from later editions of his The Family.)” https://t.co/WMoUw3Dy4U https://t.co/Rx6xLSmRJC

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@heirof_light i do loathe roger griffin and his “palingenetic nationalism” in fascism studies. it’d be one thing if he and his so-called cultural turn around understanding fascism was just a focus on fascist culture, but it comes at the expense of…