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Unraveling Christopher Lasch's Minimal Self with Elijah Emery
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The Rise and Fall of the Russian Revolution
I think the whole book can kind of only be justified as almost a novel rather than a work of history because otherwise it just leaves so much out. It's making this very specific argument for seeing history this way and it's marshalling a number of sources for that, but is very conspicuous in what it's choosing not to do. And we all his books, but hey, they're in a heartless world, cultural justice and minimal self are basically essays, collections, well, and Russians, American liberals and the Russian Revolution, which are not. Okay, and agony in American left may not, agony in American Left is weird because it feels like it's essays, but it's definitely
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