USSR and PRC had really bad checks and balances since they let dictators consolidate power and form cults of personality. You really think those are good examples of your point? Have you read entirely different histories than I have? Which books do you recommend then?
I was going to say something like This Soviet World or Russian Justice, but they are not actually history books. They are written from a contemporary standpoint. Pat Sloans Soviet Democracy is another contemporary book.
I’m sure cowbee will link you to Blackshirts and reds, that is a history book.
Hey. I’m the creator of ComLib, I haven’t been making any EPUBs for some time, but I want to get back into it. Do you have anything you want made into an EPUB? If you don’t, do you have any recommendation for what I should work on next?
Soviet Russia and China were nominally a democracies, but both were controlled by individuals without checks. Stallin and Mau respectively. Again, what history books are you reading that is saying otherwise?
Examples?
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USSR and PRC had really bad checks and balances since they let dictators consolidate power and form cults of personality. You really think those are good examples of your point? Have you read entirely different histories than I have? Which books do you recommend then?
I was going to say something like This Soviet World or Russian Justice, but they are not actually history books. They are written from a contemporary standpoint. Pat Sloans Soviet Democracy is another contemporary book.
I’m sure cowbee will link you to Blackshirts and reds, that is a history book.
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Hey. I’m the creator of ComLib, I haven’t been making any EPUBs for some time, but I want to get back into it. Do you have anything you want made into an EPUB? If you don’t, do you have any recommendation for what I should work on next?
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There was a pretty decent EPUB at https://annas-archive.org/md5/5212d271f108a89b4dbd54b658b4fbda so I modified it very slightly, https://comlib.encryptionin.space/epubs/elementary-principles-of-philosophy/
Soviet Russia and China were nominally a democracies, but both were controlled by individuals without checks. Stallin and Mau respectively. Again, what history books are you reading that is saying otherwise?
Other than the sources Cowbee linked, @Awoo@hexbear.net and @Alaskaball@hexbear.net also compiled a list of transcripts of times Stalin tried to resign from his post.
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Do you agree that Mau and Stallin extensively purged political opponent?
The book you linked seemed to be a explicitly Communist reexamining. I wouldn’t really go to that for unbiased history. But anyway.
Do you agree that Stalin and Mau created cults of personality?
There is no such thing as unbiased
Do you agree that Stalin and Mau created cults of personality?