Of course lenin. Stalin was able to find specific quotations in londons work. Sometimes he had little pieces of white paper to help them find the quotes. Often he knew the quotes from memory. He knows a lot about the outside world but to return to an earlier point he was sophisticated and blinkered at the same time. So talk about fascism as finance capital. He has a very unsophisticated analysis of fascism. It filtered through his marxist worldview that is related to class and class struggle. This is not a sophisticated analysis. At the same time he had a very sophisticated analysis of behavior and what we would call and how other states use any means necessary. But you know theres a seriousness and a comical quality to the dictatorship at the same time. Here they are a poor country wracked by war revolution and civil war undergoing famine barely able to recover telling the outside world that they are the future and the outside world is going to do disappear and desperately needing tra
Denmark. There is going to be an audio taping tonight, and if we get to that point, come to our audience microphone over here that way cspan and politics prose will get your questions recorded as well as our authors answers to them. And lastly if you could do us a huge favor fold up your chairs lee them against leave them against something solid, itll help us get to the book signing. Welcome to politics prose. My name is abby i run our instore events, and this evening we are so pleased to have with us Rafia Zakaria to discuss her new book the upstairs wife. Its her experience with the country she grew up in and she begins at Pivotal Moment in 2007 when [inaudible] one of her uncles had decided to take a second wife and the book really becomes this unique look at culture and politics and shes really showing a lot about the country through her own story. So her works has appeared youve probably seen it in aljazeera america, other publications, and shes also a human rights activist and on
Figure him out . Were going to do it through his very close comrades, those who lived and worked with him and kind of see what they had to say about him. This is not an easy task because around stalin there are many lies. There are lies that stalin told about himself, there are lies they regime told about him in official propaganda. There are lies his enemies who survived somehow and fled abroad into immigration told about him. And then there are the fantastic stories made up about him and what he call the biographies of stalin. So there is a lot of junk surrounding him, and so you kind of have to work through. Its sort of like the ship that has been in port too long and you get out the scraper and begin to scrape the barnacles off the man, stalin to try to see if you can get back to this process of his evolution as a person. So let me give you one example of Something Like this. In the spring and summer of 1923, spring and summer of 1923, right . The stalin is 45 years old. He has bee
Themselves separate and not getting caught up in the culture or society. But its a wonderful question and one that really deserves some serious attention. Unfortunately, i havent given it a. [laughter] i would just add i think almost every federal judge in the nation reads the newspaper keeps up with cultural events. And im sure subconsciously its a factor in the thought process as it is with every other person. But dont think its dominant. I think whats concerned a lot of people, michael round of talk to a lot of folks on the country is whether or not a lot of our issues today are being resolved by the judiciary that should be left to the democratic process. I will leave it there. May i ask you to adjourn . [laughter] i ask you all to join me in thanking john peters. [applause] john, thanks a lot. [inaudible conversations] you are watching booktv on cspan2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. Booktv, television for serious readers. Columnist and human rights activist R
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