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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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hagiography

Those who count themselves on the side of the revolution must engage with these failures and crimes. To do otherwise is to fall into apologia, special pleading, hagiography – and to run the risk of repeating such mistakes.

—p.317 Epilogue: After October (305) by China Miéville
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traduce

And in the traducing and misrepresentation of opponents

—p.316 Epilogue: After October (305) by China Miéville
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baleful

The party’s shift after Lenin’s death, from that plaintive, embattled sense that there had been little alternative but to strive in imperfect conditions, to the later bad hope of Socialism in One Country, is a baleful result of recasting necessity as virtue.

—p.316 Epilogue: After October (305) by China Miéville
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telos

did October lead inexorably to Stalin? It is an old question, but one still very much alive. Is the gulag the telos of 1917?

—p.315 Epilogue: After October (305) by China Miéville
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stentorian

Party activists are hounded in great numbers, forced to betray others, to confess to preposterous crimes with stentorian declarations

—p.315 Epilogue: After October (305) by China Miéville
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