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Harrystein (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Historians: Where to draw the line? == I have just added a section titled "Academia" to this template, which currently (WIP) contains the big three anti-communist historians - Service, Conquest, and Pipes - but also should later include key anti-communist contributors of other disciplines (excepting maybe economics, which may belong in its own template or article?) whose legacy lives on as part of the "black legend" of communism. The issue is that historians such as...") |
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Historians: Where to draw the line?
I have just added a section titled "Academia" to this template, which currently (WIP) contains the big three anti-communist historians - Service, Conquest, and Pipes - but also should later include key anti-communist contributors of other disciplines (excepting maybe economics, which may belong in its own template or article?) whose legacy lives on as part of the "black legend" of communism.
The issue is that historians such as J. Arch Getty are clearly critical of the USSR and are opposed to the legacy of communism, but arguably offer important resources to pro-USSR communists and indeed all communists in the 21st century. The question, then, is where to "draw the line". I feel that Getty and other "revisionist school" historians should not be added here, as this template should involve specifically authors who have contributed massively to modern anti-communist propaganda. Quibbling over Getty and other liberals is meaningless in the face of "1000 billion iPhone Vuvuzela" - a legacy for which we should wholeheartedly thank the former three. Harrystein (talk) 17:57, 8 May 2024 (UTC)