Something to make people think about it while they try to solve the cognitive dissonance, or to Atleast make them view it more than a simple totalitarian state where everything was bad and even the grass was white
Something to make people think about it while they try to solve the cognitive dissonance, or to Atleast make them view it more than a simple totalitarian state where everything was bad and even the grass was white
I’ve been reading around that topic myself.
Book: Losurdo’s Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend quickly gets to the point of “something shifted in the perception of Stalin, why?”. Somewhere else pointed out that he primarily uses sources antagonistic to Stalin to show that their own arguments are often contradictory (though of course Stalin isn’t without some serious actual faults).
This article about Stalin from a US journalist does a good job showing him as a rather modest human.
This is a good one. I have this book but have only read a bit of it. The title “Critique of a Black Legend” might disarm some libs. Also there is that bit from Hammer and Hoe where he (allegedly) offered to send the red army to protect striking black workers in the 1930s.