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Unbelievable, there’s not even an English version of this in Goodreads? He wrote it explicitly for an English speaking audience. This sets off little conspiracy alarms in my head.

Very unlikely to be for me. A slog. Totally all over the place but not in a way that provokes any interest. Seems thoroughly uninteresting.

Such a great a feeling to discover a few pages in that you’re reading a gem of a book.

-Kruschev wrongly accuses of Stalin of being ill prepared for WW2, which makes his entire argument against Stalin seem suspect

Discussions of 'true' socialism, mostly Stalin contra Trotsky:

One of the best books of making sense of history from a political-economic standpoint. A tale of absolute surplus value accumulation that demands geographic expansion, slavery, and eventually develops private property laws that inevitably benefit creditors. These laws set the stage for internal crises inside the republic where “The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles."