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Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928

by Stephen Kotkin

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Fortress Besieged

by Qian Zhongshu

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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

by Edward S. Herman

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Vivek’s Quotes

“If I wasn't hard, I wouldn't be alive.
If I couldn't ever be gentle, I wouldn't deserve to be alive.”
― Raymond Chandler, Playback

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“Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.”
― Graham Greene

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“...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it.”
― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

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“I can stand on my own feet; I don't need any man's mahogany desk to prop me up”
― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

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“I have always shook with fright before human beings. Unable as I was to feel the least particle of confidence in my ability to speak and act like a human being, I kept my solitary agonies locked in my breast. I kept my melancholy and my agitation hidden, careful lest any trace should be left exposed. I feigned an innocent optimism; I gradually perfected myself in the role of the farcical eccentric.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

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