Kamil Galeev Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Kamil Galeev

'Lenin first laughed and then started thinking. Then said seriously and almost threateningly: - Well, we'll overcome these Bonaparts, won't we? - With God's help - responded Trotsky' (Leon Trotsky. My life) https://t.co/7OcIa5ka3y

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David Woodruff. Money Unmade: Barter and the Fate of Russian Capitalism One of very, very few ones with positive value. I've heard he had lived in a remote Russian province for awhile. Not sure if true, but that could explain why he gets it Most don't and are not willing to https://t.co/0qZxGNeeDq https://t.co/pp4D2WQhLC

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What to read about Russia? In this short thread I'll list some materials that would help to understand Russia better History If you want to learn more about Russian history, read Dominic Lieven's "Empire". Literally the best crash course on a national history I've read🧵 https://t.co/zE66PzzFw1

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You had to unload your boats, put them and all the goods on your backs and carry all of this past the rapid. Repeat nine times for all nine rapids. That's how Byzantine emperor Constantine Porphyrogenitus described Dnieper navigation in his treatise De Administrando Imperio https://t.co/6BKWHaQbt0

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Egalitarian teachings of Islam helped to justify a social revolution - slaughter and expulsion of nobility. It happened elsewhere too (look Hadji Murad by Leo Tolstoy). But in Chechnya it was the most radical. By the 18th c aristocracy was gone. And then the Russians arrived https://t.co/GiRxkows09

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On the opposing side of political spectrum, Thomas Hobbes uses similar arguments: You think our king treats us badly? Well, you kinda forgot how we had been treated in the age of the Conqueror See "A Dialogue Between a Philosopher and a Student of the Common Laws of England" https://t.co/h6qaj3zJhy

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Researchers studying regionalism and diversity in Russia produced tons of great books on Caucasus but very few on Volga region. This is by far the best book on Tatarstan that I know. She: 1. Has actually learnt the language 2. Lived into the culture rather than merely studied it https://t.co/8LWHPfuXFz

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The most popular and brilliant of the Communist leaders, Leon Trotsky leaded the left wing. So Stalin sided with the rightists. He criticised Trotsky from the rightist positions, standing for the freedom of individual farming, more market-oriented economy, more economic freedom

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Consider Gaidar - the mastermind behind the market reforms and very bright guy. He was coming from Soviet patriciate. His dad was a Vice-Admiral (=naval intelligence). Their family lived on Cuba during the Caribbean crisis, constantly hanged out with Fidel Castro and Che Guevara https://t.co/WlQ2VvaC2B

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I learnt this from Chris Miller's book "We shall be masters". Very informative and entertaining study. I discussed it on @jordanschnyc ChinaTalk podcast, so had to read it beforehand. Reading it during the recording might have felt awkward: that's something I usually try to avoid https://t.co/yNGvUq6XD0

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