Do you know of any ressources that give factual, evidence-based information about the development of the soviet union from its beginnings till the death of Stalin.
I'm particularly interested in its industrial and educational policies.
Original textbooks from that time would be golden!
Looking at wikipedia I can only find the usual "it was all just communist propaganda and lies" and "everything was horrible, nothing worked" litany.
Are there reliable, uncensored translations of Lenin's, Stalin's and other important policy makers' works available on the net?
Yeah well, let's se-
>translations
Nah. How about you kill yourself.
>>587071
Simon Pirani
Vladimir Andrle
Sheila Fitzpatrick
There are lots of stuff by Lenin and Stalin on the web, and you would know that if you bothered to even google it.
As for other stuff, some of it is freely available, others are locked away. I have a friend who occasionally does Archive work at Moscow State University, and peer-reviews historical writings on this exact time-period, so I may ask him for some stuff for you when he gets back.
Why do so many people fall for the north africans were black maymay?
Even goes up to hollywood. Why not instead glorify actual African kingdoms like Mali and Axum. You could even go as far to say Yemen is black considering it has considerable mullato history.
How much do Korean students learn about the ancient Middle East? Probably just cliffnotes because it's not relevant to them.
>>587032
Because Western normies don't actually want to learn about shit like the Epic of Sunjata because few have heard of it, yet alone know what it's about. They barely care about the Ancient Greeks, let don't know anything about Mali or Axum.
It's must easier just to make something that says "Caesar was black" than to actually try to do a foreign culture justice like that, and even if they do manage, the chance that it bombs goes up exponentially simply because of it's limited appeal.
>>587032
there were negros that far north but not very many, because of modern racial tensions they tend to stretch it for the ratings, their goal isn't pure historical accuracy
I got an idea. I want to collect those snails the next time I'm on holiday and make myself a real tyrian purple T-shirt. Are here any guides how to do it? How many snails would I need to get for one T-shirt?
>>586987
You probably don't have the social standing to pull it off.
>>587005
I already have a viable plan to retake Constantinople and crown myself a Basileos. The purple t-shirt is the last thing I need.
Kind of wasting it if you use it on a t-shirt
use it on a dress shirt or something instead.
"twelve thousand snails of Murex brandaris yield no more than 1.4 g of pure dye, enough to colour only the trim of a single garment.
>>586985
jokes are only funny once or twice.
Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam
>>587072
tu fui ego eris, I was once irritated like you by every thread but you shall gain patience and tranquillity soon.
>I die innocent of all the crimes laid to my charge. I pardon those who have occasioned my death; and I pray to God that the blood you are going to shed may never be visited on France.
What are the effects of Louis XVI's execution on France? Did it result in more bloodshed?
>>586888
Yes because most of the time someone or a group of people tried to use the revolution as a means to further their own ambition. Civilians got killed constantly, justly or not.
>>586910
> Civilians got killed constantly, justly or not.
That's an exaggeration.
Civilians mostly got killed as part of the civil war, in the areas that didn't rebel they were okay.
Louis XVI's execution led to civil war in France, intensified attacks from the rest of Europe, and consequently the Reign of Terror
so yep it the blood rained back down on them
Who is the undisputed greatest kebab remover?
>>586834
Other kebabs.
>>586834
The Russians.
Out of Rivera, Codreanu, Mosley, and Degrelle were any of them credible leaders with decent policies, or were they all just carbon copies or Hitler or Mussolini that wouldn't translate to their own nations.
>>586717
Codranu was based. In terms of style that is, don't really care about politics.
>>586717
Rivera too was very stylish. He should've been an actor. He has the Al Pachino vibe without the weak chin and being a manlet.
cartoon villains man
Why didn't the English rebel when he changed their religion/head of church?
>>586312
Because no one wanted to live in London tower.
no lad could be arsed to tbf
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilgrimage_of_Grace
They did
I need dank history memes
>>586339
>Bringing weapons inside pomerium
American gun freaks are truly uneducated retards.
What is /his/ thoughts about Nomadism?
Smooth space v striated space
>>586285
they need to settle down.
>>586285
They seem to be all over the place.
* https://archive.org/details/AmericanCapitalism16071800
* https://archive.org/details/TheFirstAmericanRevolution
* https://archive.org/details/TheStruggleForAmericanFreedom
* https://archive.org/details/TheRiseOfTheAmericanNation
* https://archive.org/details/LaborParties18271834
* https://archive.org/details/JosephWeydemeyerPioneerOfAmericanSocialism
* https://archive.org/details/WilliamHSylvisAndTheNationalLaborUnion
* https://archive.org/details/ThePopulistMovementInTheUnitedStates
* https://archive.org/details/GeneDebs
* https://archive.org/details/HistoryOfTheUSASinceWorldWarI
* https://archive.org/details/AmericanYouthToday (1973)
* https://archive.org/details/TheLifeAndDeathOfMartinLutherKing
* https://archive.org/details/RecentHistoryLaborMovementUSVolume1 (1918-1939)
* https://archive.org/details/RecentHistoryLaborMovementUSVolume2 (1939-1965)
* https://archive.org/details/RecentHistoryLaborMovementUSVolume3 (1965-1980)
* https://archive.org/details/MarxandEngelsontheUnitedStates
* https://archive.org/details/LeninOnTheUnitedStatesOfAmerica
* https://archive.org/details/LeninsImpactOnTheUnitedStates
* https://archive.org/details/BolshevikRevolutionFoner (The Bolshevik Revolution: Its Impact on American Radicals, Liberals, and Labor)
* http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015074198832 (The Reign of Witches, The Struggle Against the Alien and Sedition Laws)
* http://bookzz.org/book/872863/1686e1 (history of the Americas from colonial times to late 1940s)
* http://bookzz.org/book/988561/b4f382 (history of CPUSA up to late 40s)
* https://www.marxists.org/archive/foster/1954/foster-history-negro-america.pdf (history of blacks in the USA up to the early 50s)
* https://archive.org/details/warelections186200nort (short pamphlet on elections during the Civil War)
True fact: American Communists played a notable role in the struggle against slavery.
From Philip S. Foner biographical introduction to Friedrich A. Sorge's "Labor Movement in the United States":
>The Communist Club of New York was not only the first Marxist organization in the Western Hemisphere; it was the only socialist (and labor) organization that invited blacks to join as equal members. Its constitution required all members to "recognize the complete equality of all persons—no matter of whatever color or sex." The club was also in the forefront of the struggle against slavery, and its members played an important role in mobilizing the German-American workers in opposition to the "peculiar institution." ....
>By 1860, these workers had become committed to a radical antislavery position. Moreover, men like Weydemeyer, Douai, and members of the Communist Club, including Sorge, formed a significant force in the Republican Party, seeking to push the party in a more radical direction, particularly in the direction of favoring the total abolition of slavery.
>When the Civil War began with the attack on Fort Sumter, most of the German radical organizations disbanded because the majority of their members enlisted in the Union forces. The New York Communist Club did not meet for the duration of the war since most of its members had joined the Union army.
another book: https://archive.org/details/cu31924002355919 (Lincoln, Labor and Slavery)
We all know communism gathers all of the "undesirables" to for a political movement. It's the fact that after they take power, they kill all of the undesirables and then some.
Can anyone name any famous Medieval European people who were heavily critical of religion or even Atheist? Preferably ones that existed before the Age of Enlightenment.
I can think of a few Islamic ones like Al-Ma'arrim, Ibn al-Rawandi and even Al-Razi I suppose. But funnily enough I can't think of any Europeans that lived in a similar period who were equally or more critical of Christianity like they were.
Am I just ignorant or were there really not that many of them?
Spinoza
>>586219
Not exactly medieval. He may have been early in the Age of Enlightenment but he was definitely a part of it.
King John I of England.
ITT: We discuss Latin American dictators
Favorites? Craziest? Worst?
Pacal > Spaniard rapebabies
>>586027
pinochet was an immigrant
Cuba dictatorship is the best one to be honest
Is it morally wrong to cause a fictional person to suffer? If you create a world and people of fiction is it immoral to make them suffer even though they only exist in the minds of you and your audience and not the physical world?
why do you think suffering is inherently bad
>morality
fact: to exist is to suffer
Is this all philosophy amounts to?https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCnchhausen_trilemma
This is where we end up?
How does one reconcile the death(or laclthereof) truth? Is Camus the only way out?
Fuck off to /mu/ or tumblr or wherever you came from plebeian
>>585803
>Is Camus the only way out?
Yes, you should be a professional footballer and die in a car accident.
>>585803
this album is so overrated
