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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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vertiginous
Does Capitalism Have a Future?

their vertiginous self-recasting into capitalists and nationalists

—p.121 What Communism Was (99) by Georgi Derluguian
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Thermidorian

the necessary phase of "auto-Thermidorean restoration" in revolutionary sequence

—p.119 What Communism Was (99) by Georgi Derluguian
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sclerosis

The now sclerotic generation of obedient Soviet bureaucrats formed in the end of the Stalinist purges

—p.115 What Communism Was (99) by Georgi Derluguian
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Neue Ostpolitik

the hopeful spirit of the 1970s German Neue Ostpolitik

—p.111 What Communism Was (99) by Georgi Derluguian
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nomenklatura

Eventually the name nomenklatura would become a pejorative for stolid bureaucrats.

—p.108 What Communism Was (99) by Georgi Derluguian
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