I would like to know more about the years 1918–1929. Can you anons recommend any books on the subject?
https://akarlin.com/lenin/>There is a general consensus that Stalin was a sadistic tyrant. But the ghost of his predecessor remains “handshakeworthy” on the left hand side of the political spectrum. The SWPLy bobos of Seattle, who would not have been long for the Communist world, erected a statue to him in the city center. The New York Times “celebrated” the centenary of the Russian Revolution with odes to the Bolsheviks’ progressivism on the environment, sex, and race (not that Terell J. Starr with his strange ideas of how the USSR “centered the Russian slav” would appreciate it).>Westerners, at least, have a good excuse for subscribing to the self-serving Trotskyite belief that Stalin “betrayed” Lenin’s revolution – after all, the bacillus that Germany unleashed upon Russia during its moment of weakness and disarray did more than anyone else to derail De Tocqueville’s prophesy and ensure that the 20th century would be an exclusively American one.>And yet, as of the centenary of Red October, 56% of Russians – up from 40% in 2006 – maintained a positive view of the grandfather of this dismal experiment. To this day, Lenin’s pyramid-like tomb occupies the center of Moscow, the heart of Russia, as if he was a Pharaoh of old – though perhaps that is ironically appropriate, in light of his zealous drive to drag Russia into the Communist future instead depositing it in a world with the ethical norms of the 3rd millennium BC.>There is thus no better and no more urgent time to consign the “Communist fable of a Lenin supposedly gentler than Stalin” (as Stephen Kotkin put it) to its well-deserved place in the dustbin of history.>Who was Lenin?>The brother of a terrorist. In the totalitarian state that he built, which operated by blood guilt, this would have been as good as a death sentence. Fortunately for Lenin, he lived in the Russian Empire, not the USSR.
Youngblood - Soviet Cinema in the Silent Era, (the cultural form that the soviets uniquely excelled in above all others).Steer clear of any recommendations that are Barnes and Noble slop (this shit plagues “history buff” threads on /lit/), anything coming from the frog posters about to flood your thread (you’re kinda an idiot for choosing this pic for your post), or if the book chants about crimes in a peculiarly unscholarly tone or if it continues past the preface/introduction (unfortunately you have to ignore the obligatory bromides regarding the evils of X required by our so-called “leftist” “cultural Marxist” academia in the west which is in almost every book even remotely related to soviet society. You can almost hear the tedious sigh coming from certain scholars “yes yes now where were we”). I’m not even communist, this is just common sense once you wade into soviet studies.
>>24930273Rants * not chants
>>24930118The last gasp of Russian culture before the Western Mandarins choked it to death in paranoia and corruption. All states do this to culture. >>24930164Probably unreliable and dishonest the whole way through. Do better. (And I'm no fan of them man)
>>24930164Sickening creature. Enemy of mankind, like his type so often is.
>>24930353Describe this type
>>24930118Don't know much about it but I would prefer to believe that as a bunch of Goths/Punks who liked to dress in all black leather the bolshys tried to (but obviously failed) instill some taste into the Russian people.Pretty sure they instead built a fancy jazz night club instead though which pissed Vlad off quite a bit to his credit. Not only philosophically, but hopefully aesthetically also.
