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next on my list 1) Blood in the water : the Attica prison uprising of 1971 and its legacy by Heather Ann Thompson 2) Red globalization : the political economy of the Soviet Cold War from Stalin to Khrushchev by Oscar Sanchez-Sibony 3) Shadow Cold War : the Sino-Soviet competition for the Third World by Jeremy Friedman then ill try to binge on fiction lol
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whomupclicklike posted:I read a different book about this: This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed by Charles Cobb. More of an overview of the movement than just in one state, though. I'd recommend it. Interesting, thanks - Cobb appears at several points in We Will Shoot Back.
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Has anybody read Jackson Rising yet? I intend on picking it up as soon as I get through my current library stack. Someone in another thread directed me to this excellent Oxford American essay on the same subject - The Socialist Experiment: a new-society vision in Jackson, Mississippi.
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Jan 7, 2018 03:51
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This book doesn't have enough explosions!
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Jan 8, 2018 19:01
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I love Stalker but I still haven't read Roadside Picnic (the source material). Do you think I should read Roadside Picnic before or after Zona by Geoff Dyer, his book about Stalker? (If you've never read his work, he tends to take a subject and write discursive but connected essays surrounding that subject. For instance, The Missing of the Somme is about the ways WWI is memorialized and includes ruminations on public architecture, statue design, modern art, ceremonial traditions, etc. It's a lovely work and short enough to read on a moderate inter-city plane or train ride.)
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Yossarian-22 posted:Reading Invisible Man and it makes me feel p loving uncomfortable. Harrowing stuff I read it years ago but think I was too young & stupid for it. I should revisit.
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Jan 11, 2018 18:07
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nah posted:what are the best biographies Kotkin on Stalin CLR James’s “The Black Jacobins” on Toussaint L’Oeuverture George Pendle’s “Strange Angel” on John Whiteside Parsons for a more fun one Christopher Freyling’s “Something to do with Death” on Sergio Leone
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skaboomizzy posted:Anyone know of any good books re: predominantly white Southern churches becoming unhinged racist lunatic factories during and after the Civil Rights Era? that seems like something someone might have looked into and written about. I don't have a particular recommendation but this seems like something Jeff Sharlet would have written about -- here's his Dartmouth faculty page, here's his Twitter account. If nothing else you could probably tweet at him and ask for guidance.
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just mentioned it in another thread, but wanted to plug walter johnson's river of dark dreams: slavery and empire in the cotton kingdom there's a paperback now, so i might buy it (i borrowed the hardback from the lib). it's really illuminating as to how the government worked to prepare the land for partition, sale, and ultimately slavery , and how the South functioned as a critical component of global capitalism and industrialization. 10/10
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Today I finished Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy by Ann Thompson. Really in-depth and rigorously cited account of the uprising, retaking, and legal fallout, with a strong introduction adumbrating the broader social & political conditions leading up to it, and a concise epilogue detailing the racist legislative backlash in the aftermath. Definitely recommended - my only hangup about it is that the detailed write ups on all of the subsequent court cases begins to get repetitive as a lot of evidence & testimony was used in multiple grand jury hearings, criminal trials, and civil suits. Still, it’s a serious and crisply written account of a critical historical moment.
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Feb 5, 2018 04:13
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KaptainKrunk posted:Perry Anderson writes like a loving G and knows everything so yeah read his stuff. Seconding this. In fact the two books I have out from the library right now I found out about through Anderson's America's Foreign Policy and its Thinkers. Highly recommend that for a clarifying survey of ideology in American foreign policy circles.
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Feb 5, 2018 14:49
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Recently read Red Globalization: The Political Economy of the Soviet Cold War from Stalin to Kruschev by Oscar Sanchez-Sibony. Amazing study of the constraints international political economy and trade flows placed on Soviet foreign policy, and the degree to which the Western liberal order maintained a genuinely hegemonic power in international relations. Also finished Shadow Cold War: The Sino-Soviet Competition for the Third World by Jeremy Friedman. It's a useful and thoughtful adumbration of the ideological fissures between the CPSU and CPC & how those were expressed in differing approaches towards the West (Peaceful Coexistence vs. no-holds-barred Anti-Imperialism) and towards the new states emerging from the anti-colonial struggles of the 20th century. Recommended. Currently have a stack of fiction out from the library -- The Vagrants by Yiyun Li, a novel set during the Cultural Revolution; A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki, recommended by a coworker; The First Wife: A Novel of Polygamy by Paulina Chiziane (the first novel by a Mozambican woman ever translated into English according to Sheila Heti's glowing review in the LRB. Also just read The Leavers by Lisa Ko on a friend's recommendation. It's mediocre. Preparation for the Next Life by Atticus Lish covers some of the same ground (the post-9/11 anti-immigrant turn) more profoundly and in a more bitingly political tone, with more realistic dialogue.
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Yeah it wasn’t terrible or anything, and the long sections from the mother’s perspective were excellent. I just thought some of the dialogue and undeveloped secondary characters gave it an out-of-place YA feel, idk.
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Apr 6, 2018 03:52
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The Vagrants by Yiyun Li is a bleak, depressing novel but with fully realized characters and a unique voice + rhythm. I am pleased that I read it.
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Also I'm devouring The First Wife by Paulina Chiziane right now, love it so far.
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Apr 23, 2018 18:02
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Forgot to post that I finished and loved The First Wife by Paulina Chiziane. Cool & refreshing prose, inventive structure, and a perfectly arranged denouement that refracts all the preceding action through a new thematic lens. Also, the book design from Archipelago Books is a delight - I borrowed it from Queens Library but might buy a copy just to have on a shelf. I also can't stop looking at the rest of their offerings on their website. Started A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki now. Some parts are written as a teenager's diary and that's not really my speed (I'm easily irked by the clumsy slang that adult writers tend to attribute to young characters' writing). Some paragraphs and sections have exciting observations and draw intriguing connections though, so I'll def plop down and finish it this weekend.
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lol apparently there’s a CBS series coming out about John Whiteside Parsons, per this tweet: https://twitter.com/willmenaker/status/999374197783752704?s=20 I briefly posted earlier itt about Strange Angel, a biography of Parsons. Read it now before the series comes out so you can be cool / ahead of the game. (Also because it’s a really fun and informative book)
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May 23, 2018 20:51
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Helsing posted:Kotkin's biography of Stalin is extremely good  it's a must-read
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Jun 6, 2018 15:14
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Just picked up the novel Honey from the Lion by Matthew Neill Null. I really loved his short story collection Allegheny Front which I read a couple years ago.
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Jun 16, 2018 03:46
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I think this story will be of interest even for people who didn’t attend college or grow up in Pittsburgh, but Caliban Books apparently stole like millions of dollars worth of rare and antique books from the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh - Post Gazette story in the link. Caliban was (is?) a really great place to buy beautiful old editions as gifts or keepsakes. Just a super weird development.
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Jul 21, 2018 18:02
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Minrad posted:after watching Ken Burns (fantastic) documentaries on The West, the American Civil War and the Vietnam War I'm in the mood to do a lot of reading of 60s-90s American History and how we ended up here check out We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement by Akinyele Umoja for a distinctive look at the Civil Rights struggle during that period. also Blood in the Water by Ann Thompson is about the Attica massacre & provides some excellent context for the rise of 'Law and Order' politics. And this one is cliche but Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail 1972 is a great read.
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Jul 30, 2018 22:50
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Tankies like it because it contextualizes his decision-making and situates Soviet actions within the broad sweep of European history and broader geopolitical realities instead of saying STALIN BAD or whining about bureaucracy. And yes because it's squarely aimed at the Trotskyite line on post-revolution Soviet history as you pointed out. Volume II is more pointedly anti-bolshevik than Volume I since Kotkin is horrified at forced collectivization and of course the purges (but mainly forced collectivization). And yea Kotkin is 100% a conservative, or I suppose a conservative-liberal.
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Jul 31, 2018 19:05
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My reading has focused more on the Stalin era but maybe one of these will pique your interest: Women, the State and Revolution: Soviet Family Policy and Social Life, 1917-1936 by Wendy Goldman Everyday Stalinism. Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s by Sheila Fitzpatrick (sorry it's the 30s not the 20s but still real good) Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as Civilization by Stephen Kotkin
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Jul 31, 2018 19:31
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I was a pretty early listener to Chapo but I have to say I have zero desire to pick up that book lol Am I wrong to feel this way? Guess I should note I stopped listening almost a year ago.
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Aug 27, 2018 19:44
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I did read getfiscal’s review of it which was worth the read
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Aug 27, 2018 21:38
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Sheila Fitzpatrick is amazing. She reviewed a bunch of new books on the Russian Revolution in this sweeping essay in the LRB in March 2017, highly recommend.
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Aug 29, 2018 17:16
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I hadn't even heard of this book -- what made you pick it up, out of curiosity? also I'd ask the LF thread if they have any info, they usually have the party line critique ready with rigorous citations of anyone who doubts the eternal juche idea
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Aug 31, 2018 16:10
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LF thread a book about Actually Existing Socialist bastion, the DPRK, would def be on topic
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Aug 31, 2018 16:37
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Not only can I recommend one - I can loan you one, friend. Armed Struggle by Richard English
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Oct 1, 2018 02:27
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im on the net me boys posted:We should really have a smiley that's like just post but it's just read
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Dec 16, 2018 08:15
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I just read Springs of Affection, a collection of Maeve Brennan’s short stories. It’s good. There’s three main segments - first is light & sweet, second is a bit bleak but still delightfully written, third is a synthesis.
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Jan 12, 2019 23:43
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Started Debt, the IMF, and the World Bank: Sixty Questions, Sixty Answers by Éric Toussaint and Damien Millet this morning. I'll update when I finish.
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Jan 14, 2019 22:40
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McCaine? His book list is in the OP of this thread, don’t have links to the amazon reviews tho
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Feb 2, 2019 00:05
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sure, i recommend going outside
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Mar 5, 2019 18:54
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Haha. Maybe check out Dhalgren? Not sure I'd call it left wing per se but it's certainly uh...not conservative. And it's certainly post-apocalyptic.
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Mar 5, 2019 19:04
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horse_audiobooks
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Crakkerjakk posted:and how it went from that to labor actually winning concessions by the 30s-50s. Ten Days that Shook the World lol
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succ posted:can someone recommend a readable book about the russian revolution? something that includes the lead up and aftermath if possible. Here's a good overview of a bunch of recent books on the Russian Revolution -- What's Left? by Sheila Fitzpatrick in the LRB. You might have to make an account to read it but you don't have to subscribe. My sub lapsed and I can read the whole thing.
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I'm reading Age of Revolution: 1798 - 1848 by Eric Hobsbawm. Highly recommend. Such disciplined prose, briskly written for a general readership with rich insight and a rigorous methodology. Follow the events and effects of industrialization and the French Revolution. He considers the British industrial revolution and the French political revolution as concurrent, sweeping alterations of life in Europe and within its spheres of influence. Can't wait to finish and plow through the other works in his Age series.
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