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Conquest (at least by the time he wrote The Dragons of Expectation) was far from a balanced source,
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in what sense? he certainly doesn't share the academy's general penchant for the USSR, but does this make him particularly unbalanced, or just without the standard bias one comes to expect?
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in any sense of the word: can you recall, without trawling for figures and quotes, if and how he took into account the loss of resources and industry in the 1917 peace settlement, or from the civil war, or when the figures were actually culled from? The reason I comment is because if it was before 1941, the country was decimated by loss of resources from the above, if it was before about 1960 it was decimated by WWII, and after that it was pretty much embroiled in the Cold War and there ceases to be any meaningful comparison to be made....
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bravo! so, effectively, the entire history of the USSR's economics is excused
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