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The Cancel Culture War: Stalin v. Trump.
Last week I was at Lincoln Center for a superb all-Shostakovich chamber music program. Whenever I listen to Shosti (my nickname, regrets, easier to type), I check to see when he composed each work. Was it BS or AS? Or, … Continue reading
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Tagged "Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, "Socialist Realism", Bad Bunny, cancel culture, Formalism, GOP, Heinrich Himmler, Hitler, Kennedy Center, Kristi Noem, Lavrentiy Beria, Lincoln Center, Lord of the Rings, NKVD, Pravda, Shostakovichm, Soviet Union, Stalin, Tom Homan, Trump, Trump's cabinet
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If you have fond thoughts about Lenin and the Revolution…stop. it. right. now
Or else. (That’s an empty threat, in case you shivered in fear when reading it.) Because I went to an excellent high school, a large public high school with terrific (union) teachers, my classmates and I were assigned an interesting … Continue reading
Posted in Capitalism, Corruption, Journalism, Politics, Propaganda, Revolution, The Facts of Life
Tagged Angela Balabanova, Angelica Balavanova, Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx, Lenin, Leonid Krasin, Nazis, Russian Revolution, Stalin, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, USSR, Victor Sebestyen
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I’ve been re-reading Russian lit and have been stunned by one universal theme
I didn’t say to myself one day, “I’m going to read my collection of Russian lit.” There was no such plan. Simply, I decided it was time to re-read Anna Karenina. I was uneasy about doing it, uneasy about the … Continue reading
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Tagged Anna Karenina, Bolshevism, Chechov, emphysema, Eugene Onegin, Henri Troyat, Jane Eyre, Lenin, Pushkin, Russian literature, Stalin, Tolstoy, Trotsky, Vladimir Nabokov, War and Peace, Wuthering Heights
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