The quote that starts at 22:57 wasn't "kind of a dig", she rammed and twisted the knife right into the American soul-if such a thing even exists-and I absolutely loved it.
I'm so happy for you that you've been able to read this! I've been trying to get the copy of it from my university library but they never have it, so I'm starting to suspect someone stole it and threw it out.
Yeah I don't remember if I mentioned it in this video but a lot of her books that they say that they have in the library, are mysteriously "missing" and have been for the last 3 years yet they still keep the listing up online.
Yeah either it was thrown out or stolen. I've seen books actually get thrown out due to different issues. Mainly political and religious thought inspired people to do that. And yes, some people steal books too. A lot of times books get purged for whatever reason. People, find them in the trash, discard boxes, or on shelves no one checks and bam they disappear. Example of this. I found the Satanic Bible by Anton Levey a few years ago at my local library on the shelf alone. Out of curiosity being a goth kid in my teens that book was something you read to be "edgy" and piss off Conservative people 🤣💯. It was gone 3 days later and no copy found in the physical and digital card catalogue lool. Very strange incident for me indeed. I'm like it's 2018, who destroys and throw away books anymore??
Throughout most of the video, I was wondering what had you convinced this book was significant enough to be banned, as opposed to being almost impossible to find just because it was of minor importance-if that all makes sense. The reading section near the end of the video convinced me, as well: this is a significant book, and I hope I'm able to read it some day.
I was worried I didn't make a good enough case for it, but I didn't want to bore everyone with like 30 minutes of reading. Fantastic chapters, there's a chapter in here about women that is particularly amazing!
@@agnesxivYes! I've had the same experience. I spend ages bouncing off the surface of texts because I have to exhaustingly repeat every statement 10 times to try and grasp it, then find a writer/piece of writing like this and binge all of it in one sitting. Currently waiting to get properly assessed for ADHD so checks out lol
@@LadyIzdiharwhat context do you need? Looks awfully like the Pale of Settlement in concept. Had Stalin lived, he probably would have populated it with the survivors of his Doctor’s Plot purge. Heard the mosquitos there are as big as eagles.
7:23 Heh, I said "Weird," out loud at the same time. Speaking of simple writing, Stalin is known for that, as well. Generally no BS, straight to the point. It's kinda admirable. Writing a lot while saying nothing, or very little, can be annoying.
I KNEW I WASN'T GOING CRAZY! I was literally searching for this book while doing research for a video I'm making--I own 2 of her books physically--but for the life of me nothing was coming up on any search results.
@@LadyIzdihar When you release the scan of the book I'd be happy to do the OCR work to convert it to epub format ☺️ I just finished doing this for Blood In My Eye by George Jackson because in the course of half a century nobody seems to have taken the initiative to do it.
@@KoIossov Dammit, my comments are getting filtered because of RU-vid. You can find the epub on the site that is the LIBRARY that has the letter Z at the front but it's best to find information about that site from the subreddit which has the same name. There's also the LIBRARY that has GENESIS at the start of its name but I've only just uploaded the epub to that site since you commented so that will take a couple of days before it will appear. Sorry to be cryptic. Hopefully this won't get filtered and that this will be enough of a lead for you.
I love books like this. Unfortunately, living on disability benefits. I can't afford these books 😭📚. And many out of print or hard to find. Sooo I prefer to have PDF files of books like this. Also great point on convoluted and flowery language. As a history and Political Science major I used to enjoy such language. It made feel as if I'm better than other comrades, or people that may not have the privilege of a University education. I changed my views after reading Anna Louise Strong's books.
Love your work and platform! I cannot wait to see your digitization! Ill be supporting your patreon next time I get my paycheck. Thank you for everything you do 👊🏻
what an amazing being, never heard of her and I'm after hearing how great she is ashamed that I didn't know her. Once again there's someone to inspire me!
As a major fan of Strong and a marxist historian that has tracked down many "missing" books like this I've never related to a video more. I was happy to hear it wasn't just a different title to a more available work, I've had that deflating end to a search many times. My favorite works to find are the works of people that only exist in English vua Soviet English publishing prior to the late 30s because the writer was purged. This isn't because I think people who were purged are somehow more correct or valuable, it's just that they are super hard to find especially when they had no narrative of being anti revolution for western people to latch onto and therefore republish them. My personal favorite find, though nowhere near the rarest, is the collection "Science at the crossroads" where Soviet scientists, historians, etc presented marxist views on science in London in 1931. Not only is it the ignored foundational text for modern philosophy sociology and history of science, especially Hessens lecture in the social and economic roots of Newton's thought, but it also is kund of a kadt glimpse at relations between USSR and the west before the struggles against fascism and all related changes turned everything topsy turvy.
The "I'm not a communist yet" reminds me if what the great marxist ecologist told the HUAC at his interrogation. Im paraphrasing from memory. When asked if he was a communist he said he'd like to be but didn't think he was yet, a communist fights oppression in every form they find and unites theory and practice to make the world better and he felt he wasn't really living up to that. A really good way to undermine their simplistic and biased views while also trying to avoid jail.
Richard Levins is who I was referencing. For some reason RU-vid isn't letting me edit my comments hence the weird self replying chain and phone typos. Loved the video.
28:57 Aye, Strong mentions the 1933 Cotton Strikes in the San Joaquin Valley! I’m glad to see my home region and its labor struggles mentioned as this region gets ignored or otherwise seen as “backward”. It ain’t perfect, but there were intense labor struggles out here even in the late 1800s against railroad monopolies near Hanford.
Just thought I'd post to mention that if anyone wants to read "This Soviet World " online , the Marxist Internet Archive has a copy . I would post a link , but I fear that RU-vid might very well mark it as spam , and punish me.
Wonder what happened to the link I posted on a previous message? The book is in the Internet Archive and is free (though you can donate to the project).
It could very well be, that we lose all record of these works existing at all outside of citations by their ideological rivals. One of the best sources of Ancient canaanite religion that of Sanchuniathon it's only preserved in a gloss by the Christian polemicist Eusebius. It's very important to make all works available to everyone equally. Socialism of information.
Perhaps a viewer can find a copy in a public or university library, photocopy it, send it to you, and you can post it on line, if it is not copyrighted, as USSR at some time joined Intl Copyright Union. Good luck!!!
Perhaps--- Berkeley, or Oakland,.there is a Proctor?? Marxist Library.l Light they know some helpful info, even have a copy? Also, some other countries public. university. or political, or on line libraries might have a copy?
Also, if that book is copyrighted,.could find + ask them if they themselves,.or + help from others, be willing to re print it, especially if you could on line collect many signatures from people who would purchase a new copy?.Perhaps the individual or organization who might own copyright might think that there is no interest. ??
the books you can't find on the shelves may be stored off site or out of public areas. I work for a different massive city library where a few of my duties include contact with books our library owns that are considered too sensitive to be available for public use (mostly due to age, but I've seen some strange choices the librarians make on which books to put in safe keeping). these books are still available to the public though, albeit through a system that has direct librarian supervision to ensure the safety of the books. every time I get onto a subject to read about and look through our shelves for it, i end up finding books that have been completely forgotten, with at least two that i could find no information about online. those oooooold library binding editions of books make up the bulk of what my library stores off site. additionally, if a book you want isn't available in your library system, please contact the staff to ask about inter-library loans!
It’s annoying that this happens in the West, but that is expected. I’m pissed at Stalin for practicing the same censorship. Still the Union was an experiment whose failures and successes we learn from.
Loving this video 📹. I myself have experienced the horrors of book banning. And the stupidly hard journeys I've had to take to find them. Lol Anna Louise Strong possibly dating Trotsky. Wouldn't be surprised. He did date famous artist Frida Kahlo whose basically a Communist ☭ lgbtqia saint here in the Texas/Mexico, borderlands, the Southwest, and California.. How did she feel about about Trotsky?? Theirs a huge annoying war between leftists over Stalin and Trotsky 🙄. For me it's stupid and redundant.
Actually, Gulag Archepelago *is* being cancelled. Not long ago it was required reading in Russian high schools. Then someone in the Rus government suggested Gulag the book might be traumatizing to young readers. I haven’t heard or read what happened with this, but pretty confident Solzhenitsyn has been been sequestered behind the library front desk, and class time studying his book replaced by “patriotic education”.
And training for service in the meat brigades. Which brings up the interesting topic of blocking units, much beloved by the NKVD during the “Great Patriotic War.” Anyone know if these were used by Trotsky or others in the Civil War?
@@TeikonGommost books were not though. American propaganda tried to convince people that all of the classics were banned but that is far from the truth. At school people still had to read European classics, whether they were French or Italian or Spanish. They still needed a vibrant education system, which is why most important or noteworthy books were authorised. Nietzsche was banned because he inspired the Nazis. So were some philosophers (especially those that inspired the Nazis.) but most were kept untouched especially in academic spaces where people had to read them. Mien kampf and many anti soviet books were banned for obvious reasons, but it’s not like they did not have an education system lol 😅 surprisingly enough, I think the amount of books that were banned in the Soviet Union is equal the amount of books banned in America.
Anna Louise Strong fue una periodista y activista estadounidense, conocida por su defensa y apoyo a los movimientos comunistas en la Unión Soviética y la República Popular China.
