What was the USSR? - Aufheben

Excellent four-part analysis of the economic system of the Soviet Union examining the most common theories of its nature and pointing out their strengths and flaws.

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Submitted by Steven. on May 7, 2010

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Steven.

13 years 10 months ago

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Submitted by Steven. on May 7, 2010

just a quick note because these four articles are now collated together, they are also now all nicely formatted with proper footnotes etc. It's interesting stuff, recommended.

bizcaz

13 years 10 months ago

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Submitted by bizcaz on May 7, 2010

Are there PDF files of these "What was the USSR?" articles?

Steven.

13 years 10 months ago

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Submitted by Steven. on May 7, 2010

no, but or Joseph Kay might be able to get them if you needed them

EdmontonWobbly

13 years 10 months ago

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Submitted by EdmontonWobbly on May 11, 2010

I really, really, loved this series of articles and I don't know if I ever would have read them if it wasn't for libcom. Thanks!

Steven.

13 years 10 months ago

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Submitted by Steven. on May 11, 2010

You dork!

No, thanks for your comment - I thought these were really good as well, and much more interesting and practical and I thought they would be.

chevengrr

10 years 6 months ago

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Submitted by chevengrr on September 7, 2013

I would love to get a PDF of this. It's hard for me to read long essays on a screen.

Joseph Kay

10 years 6 months ago

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Submitted by Joseph Kay on September 7, 2013

We should have a print view option, but at the moment the easiest way to get a nice pdf would be to view the page in something like Instapaper (which gives a nice clean magazine style layout), then print it to pdf (cute pdf is a decent free pdf creator).

snipfool

10 years 6 months ago

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Submitted by snipfool on September 9, 2013

Readability (which comes as an easy to use plugin for Chrome) converts articles to a clean layout and from there there are options to send to Kindle or save as an epub. The only issue is that footnotes aren't included. I don't know if that's a limitation of Readability (and tools like it) or if libcom articles' markup semantics can be improved somehow...? Be amazing if the footnotes were hyperlinks within the epub, for example.

FYI I tried out Instapaper on Part 1 and it only converted a single quoted paragraph.

sabot

10 years 5 months ago

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Submitted by sabot on October 7, 2013

PDF added, but it's pretty basic. If someone wants to add one with a little more design, be my guest.

Juan Conatz

8 years 8 months ago

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Submitted by Juan Conatz on July 18, 2015

FYI, thoughtcrime ink has compiled this into a book, which you can buy here: https://thoughtcrimeink.com/books/detail/what_was_the_ussr

Craftwork

7 years 10 months ago

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Submitted by Craftwork on May 15, 2016

Excellent stuff.

Schmoopie

7 years 10 months ago

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Submitted by Schmoopie on May 15, 2016

Definitely worth a read