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Nathaniel’s 2023 Year in Books
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Revolutionary Berlin: A Walking Guide
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Alexander Shlyapnikov, 1885–1937: Life of an Old Bolshevik (Historical Materialism, 90):
"An extremely scholarly but readable biography of a sadly underrepresented figure in histories of the Russian Revolution. Through telling Shlyapnikov’s impressive life story, Allen illuminates many of the important debates within the Russian Left befo"
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| Bernard Goldstein was a leading member of the General Jewish Labor Bund in Warsaw between the First World War and the Holocaust. He was the head of the Bund's self-defense militia — or put another way, he was the party's enforcer, muscle, and all-aro ...more | |
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| Friedrich Engels published "The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State" in 1884, based on notes that Karl Marx had taken about a book by the anthropologist Lewis H. Morgan. Marx had died the previous year, and Engels was completing a nu ...more | |
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| On May 1, 1929, Berlin's social democratic police chief banned all demonstrations. Over the next three days, the cops fired 10,981 rounds of ammunition and massacred 33 people — half of them inside their homes! There were no parliamentary nor judicia ...more | |
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On May 1, 1929, Berlin's social democratic police chief banned all demonstrations. Over the next three days, the cops fired 10,981 rounds of ammunition and massacred 33 people — half of them inside their homes! Fifty years later, a student of the cen ...more |
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| Yet another book about East Berlin's Palace of the Republic. I am increasingly convinced that this was the greatest building Berlin ever had — and its destruction was the worst architectural crime ever committed in the city. This was a true "House of ...more | |
“I give myself credit for having seen clearly in a number of important situations. In itself, this is not so difficult to achieve, and yet it is rather unusual. To my mind, it is less a question of an exalted or shrewd intelligence, than of good sense, goodwill, and a certain sort of courage to enable one to rise above both the pressures of one's environment and the natural inclination to close one's eyes to facts, a temptation that arises from our immediate interests and from the fear which problems inspire in us. A French essayist has said: 'What is terrible when you seek the truth, is that you find it.' You find it, and then you are no longer free to follow the biases of your personal circle, or to accept fashionable clichés.”
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