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What was the significance of the international situation to the unfolding of the ‘Great Terror’?
What was the significance of the international situation to the unfolding of the ‘Great Terror’?
The 1930s were an increasingly precarious time internationally for the Soviet Union. Hostility towards the regime had been commonplace in the previous decade; but the rise of the Nazis in 1933, who were outwardly and aggressively hostile to the USSR both in its anti-communism and in its pursuit of Anschluss (expansion eastwards), intensified the uncertain position of the USSR on the international… -
Did the Soviet Union’s ‘Great Terror’ reflect the 'Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks’, as J. Arch Getty has asserted?
J. Arch Getty is one of the leading historians of the Great Terror. In The Road to Terror, published in 1999, one of his fundamental arguments is that the Terror was a part of the the Bolshevik Party’s own self-destruction. This is tied into Getty’s overarching ‘revisionist’ argument, in which he argues that the Soviet Union was a weak state, and there was a distinct lack of central control over… -
An evaluation of the transition from European indentured servants to African slaves on the plantations of mainland America and the British West Indies.
Before the widespread use of slavery in mainland America and the British West Indies, the predominant form of labour was that of white indentured servitude. These were mostly unskilled workers who had emigrated from Britain and Ireland who entered into a contract usually lasting between 2 and 10 years of labouring in the colonies. First appearing in use in Virginia by around 1620 and spreading… -
In Defence of Hobsbawm’s ‘Primitive Rebels’ Thesis
In Defence of Hobsbawm’s ‘Primitive Rebels’ Thesis
To what extent has the historiography of anarchism in Spain advanced since Eri Hobsbawm advanced his thesis of ‘primitive rebels’? Anarchism made its first appearance in Spain between 1868 and 1873, during the country’s bourgeois revolutionary period ‘when pillars of the old semi-feudal regime finally collapsed’. This was concurrent with the arrival of the Italian Giuseppe Fanelli, who introduced… -
Clear out the Reds! Anti-Communism and the Conservative Right: The Case of Oliver Locker-Lampson, 1926-1933
Submitted as a dissertation for the part fulfilment of an M.A. degree in Modern History, at the University of Leeds, 2016. Original PDF including footnotes and bibliography available here. ———— Introduction The period that followed the end of the First World War was one of destabilisation and social upheaval throughout Europe. In Russia, the Bolshevik-led October Revolution of 1917 had overthrown… -
my cat just typed lol onto my dissertation what a bitch
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“ Why should kids be taught to hate the police? Because there are 2.3 million people in jail in the US right now and every single one was put there by a fucking cop. Some people talk about good cops and bad cops, but a good cop, a cop doing their job properly, still puts nonviolent drug users in jail for many years, totally ruining their lives as they lose their jobs, houses, cars, romantic partners, access to college, and become substantially less employable upon release.
A cop doing their job properly still gives homeless people tickets for vagrancy which they obviously can’t pay and when a warrant is issued as a result an officer doing their job properly arrests those homeless people. An officer doing their job properly peppersprays and arrests environmental protesters so that logging companies can clear-cut old growth forests. An officer doing their job properly is evicting a family from their home as you read this because the parents’ jobs were shipped overseas so that the bosses could make eight figures a year instead of seven. Those people will become homeless, vagrancy tickets will be written, warrants will be issued… And then there’s the “bad ones”.
”— Sacking Rome, A Magazine for Vandals vol 1 (via anarchistcommunism)(via cocainesocialist)
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Orta is the only person involved with Garners death (insofar as he recorded it), that will do any jail time.
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“ “Un-Fuck My Future”, “No Brex Please, We’re British”, they read. Pictures of Whitney Houston with “I Will Always Love EU”, “Europe Innit” and “I wanna be deep inside EU”. “All EU Need Is Love”, “Fromage not Farage”, “Eton Mess” and, more seriously, “Science Needs EU”. “Hell no, we won’t go!” they shouted, rounding Piccadilly Circus.
At the end of the march, in Parliament Square, protesters listened to speakers including Bob Geldof and Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker as well as politicians such as the Labour MP David Lammy, and Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron.
”— The Guardianeverything about this is terrible. can someone just trigger article 50 asap
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Супрематический сказ про два квадрата — Эль Лисицкий (1922 год) 01
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Yevgeny Charushin, 1929 & c. 1935
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gagging at people thinking young people in the uk can’t be fascists and placing all the blame on the elderly
(via toastyslayingbutter)
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listen right I’m gonna abstain on the referendum tomorrow but let me tell u, as if I wasn’t already pissed at the state of the British Left, the whole EU debate has just further demonstrated its utter impotence, it’s been an complete wankshow
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a haiku to the least respected bird:
pigeons are hated
but to me they are so great
the brutalist bird