Double entendre
Stalin is presented as a cold-blooded and calculating mass murderer.Yet he needs confessions from the victims, and that is Tucker’s explanation for the confessions: that Stalin needed to be able to keep convincing himself that it was they and not he who committed crimes. After arranging the assassination of Kirov (and Tucker is absolutely certain that Stalin arranged it, although some other specialists are not), did Stalin need Zinoviev’s confession to convince himself that Zinovievwas really the guilty party? And if that double-entendre was an exception,what were the other exceptions? Was Stalin insane? The systematic and situational reasons combine poorly with abnormal psychology, and it is best to keep both approaches firmly in mind when dealing with Stalin and the purges.
What does double-entendre refer to? And could you please intepret the underlined? Can't make sense. Thanks
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Vladv What does double-entendre refer to? I have no idea. The term does not apply.
- Vladv What does double-entendre refer to?
- I have no idea.
- The term does not apply.
- Vladv And could you please intepret the underlined?
- By "systematic" he seems to mean those aspects of Stalin's conduct whose impetus derived from the political system in which he was working, what the writer called the nature of Marxism.
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VladvWhat does double-entendre refer to?
I have no idea. The term does not apply.
VladvAnd could you please intepret the underlined?
By "systematic" he seems to mean those aspects of Stalin's conduct whose impetus derived from the political system in which he was working, what the writer called the nature of Marxis
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