ParkCungHee
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I knew I should have read Norman Stone.By Niall Ferguson I assume you mean Norman Stone; the thesis is older than our ages combined.
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Okay, I knew that he was involved somehow (and that you spell his name some way), but there are a lot of eras about which I know only a few things.
The Eastern Front, 1914-1917 is definitely an entertaining book, good mixture of polemic, rhetoric, and wall o' stats. I'm pretty sure the only person for whom Stone has any respect on the Eastern Front was Brusilov.
I'd like to see a citation for that. (That Lenin was "hoping to build off of the Paris Commune and make something better" seems like a highly controversial statement.)
I don't know about Lenin, but I know Marx criticized them for failing to nationalize the banks, and failing to go all the way in seizing property and creating collective ownership of the means of production. Why is why its considered a workers state rather than a socialist state.
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I know, I was considering reading that for my WWI class. Instead I picked Liulevicius's book.The Eastern Front, 1914-1917 is definitely an entertaining book, good mixture of polemic, rhetoric, and wall o' stats. I'm pretty sure the only person for whom Stone has any respect on the Eastern Front was Brusilov.
So, no one has any idea why the Tudor period is so loaded with Biographies?
Cheezy the Wiz
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That's an incredibly stupid thing to say.
Sure. Just read his book about it.
Somewhere along the way I decided that commenting on anything about Socialism/Communism/Marxism probably wasn't worth the effort. The exception, for me, would be the PKI, Tan Malakka and the PSI all of which I would hope I know more than Cheezy about.
The one about the German myth of the east or whatever it was? How was that?
I was writing about Petain and Vichy in another thread and must have had him on the brain.
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The one about how German perceptions of "The East" were shaped by WWI. And it was excellent. A nice balance of original research and clever analysis.
Louis XXIV
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I don't have my textbook anymore. Basically, during early Bolshevik meetings after the revolution, they were discussing how to run the state. The Paris commune was mentioned as one of their inspirations (including both their perceived positives and negatives). By making something better, I meant in his mind, not necessarily objectively better. If I had the source, I'd look it up. Sadly, I don't so I'm just going from memory.
Hmm. Eeeenteresting.
Question: do you - or anybody else, really - know of any particularly good works that discuss the Curragh mutiny? I've been having to make do with a decent (but old; 1950s-vintage) one by Ryan, which, while all right, isn't exactly enough to make a paper. I've also been looking at that vile Henry Wilson's memoirs, but if there was anything else that could be suggested...
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Not really unfortunately.
Heres one that has been wracking my brain for months. I've been trying to figure out what will be my third language to learn for my PhD, and I have ahem narrowed the list down to the following options: Italian, Yiddish, Gaelic and Latin, and I was wondering if anyone has a suggestion to help narrow this down.
Louis XXIV
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What are your goals/what are your current languages? Yiddish and Gaelic don't seem all that practical outside of small circles. Latin is useful if you're involved in historical research or theology (Greek too 
). Italian is a fun language. Absolutely beautiful. I've been studying it for about four years. It's not too challenging, but there are some nuances that can be difficult. Italian culture is fun, so it opens up a lot of opportunities for cultural enrichment.
I guess that's where I'm leaning, but, if I had a choice between Yiddish, Gaelic, and Latin, I'd take Latin.
). Italian is a fun language. Absolutely beautiful. I've been studying it for about four years. It's not too challenging, but there are some nuances that can be difficult. Italian culture is fun, so it opens up a lot of opportunities for cultural enrichment.I guess that's where I'm leaning, but, if I had a choice between Yiddish, Gaelic, and Latin, I'd take Latin.
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Latin is immensely useful for anything pertaining to history and philosophy from 300 BC to AD 1600. It also improves your English.
What exactly is your PhD on? The most useful languages you listed there are Italian and Latin, but their use to you is obviously dependent upon what exactly you're studying. At a glance, I'd say Gaelic and Yiddish would be next to useless to you unless you were studying something very specific. I'm Jewish and several of my family speak Yiddish. I don't think I've ever seen any of them write anything in it, and I've yet to meet a Yiddish-speaker that didn't also speak other languages.
Mathalamus
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exactly how does Latin improve English?
Mad Man
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you can read the exit signs.
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