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So I'm reading about the Spanish Civil War (primarily Orwell's memoir about it) and I've got a few questions: 1. To what degree did the Anarchist forces commit atrocities? I know Franco's troops did horrific things, did the anarchists match the nationalists' brutality? 2. Was Anarchist Catalonia really an anarcho-syndicalist paradise? Not exactly a scientific question, but I guess what I'm asking is if the anarchist communities in spain were as well run as later anarchists claim they were.
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This might be the wrong place to request this, but I'm desperate for a (relatively) even-handed book about the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, something sweeping and not too polemical. Any ideas?
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Jul 5, 2014 19:12
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Cyrano4747 posted:It's kind of sandwiched between some fairly eye-rolling personal tales from two families, one Arab and one Jewish, that are intended to convey this "why can't we all just get along together" message that kinda falls on its rear end, but the book The Lemon Tree has a lot of solid, plainly stated background on that. I've never quite been able to figure out if it's a good textbook with some unfortunate story sandwiched in to try and make it interesting, or a wishy-washy journalistic piece with some shockingly good but over-written back ground. Really it should have been two books. Perfect! Thanks for the recommendation.
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Jul 5, 2014 22:22
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