Tag: Adam Tooze
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Beyond the Thug: The Ruthless Logic of Stalin’s Industrial Machine
Joseph Stalin is rarely categorized alongside the intellectual heavyweights of the early 20th century. While Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky are remembered as theorists who bent Marxism to fit the Russian reality, Stalin is often dismissed as a mere thug or a bureaucrat. But according to economic historian Adam Tooze, ignoring Stalin’s intellectual output blinds…