Stalin’s library: inside the mind of a dictator
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Starling Wasn't a Great Intellectual
He saw himself as a professional, a revolutionary, as a revolutionary, a journalist. And that's very much the character of his own published writings. He wasn't a great intellectual in terms of deat profoundito originality. But he was very, very effective intellectual. His prose, i would say, is very journalistic. The history extora potercast just after the revolution, when he he filled out aer a party questioner, asking what special skills he could offer to the party, he put down journalist.
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