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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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tendentious

a combination of misunderstanding of the Pravda edits and rather tendentious retellings

—p.99 March: 'In So Far As' (66) by China Miéville
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splenetic

They also mitigated Lenin’s typically splenetic denunciation of various enemies, including among liberals, the right, and non-Bolshevik socialists

on Pravda's editors

—p.99 March: 'In So Far As' (66) by China Miéville
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etiology

There have been decades of debate about the aetiology of Stalinism, volumes of stories about the man’s brutality and that of his regime. They cast shadows backwards from what would come

—p.97 March: 'In So Far As' (66) by China Miéville
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apotheosis

Kerensky’s status as ‘minister-cum-democrat’, straddling government and Soviet, was more than mere addition, more even than synthesis. It was apotheosis.

—p.92 March: 'In So Far As' (66) by China Miéville
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obviate

Sometimes political confrontation was obviated in a short-lived post-revolutionary burst of class camaraderie

—p.90 March: 'In So Far As' (66) by China Miéville
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