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4.28 AVERAGE
4.28 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
sad
medium-paced
challenging
dark
informative
slow-paced
dark
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
dark
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Brutal material, but enlightening.
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could have been 5 stars if hochschild didn't make an aside every single chapter to how terrible the soviet union was for absolutely no reason.
Aaaaargh.
History is very big and very complicated, so I guess we can't learn about everything in formal classrooms, but one might think there should have been at least a mention or two of this dude and his horror show.
As a piece of literature, this book is compulsively readable and difficult to put down. Characters assume larger than life stances and cannot be ignored. Everything is well researched and beautifully put together, despite Leopold ordering most of the paperwork burned at the end of his reign. It's kind of amazing how Hochschild and the researchers before him in the 80s and 90s were able to first get access to the scanty existing information, and then tame it into something understandable. For that alone, this book is a marvel.
History is very big and very complicated, so I guess we can't learn about everything in formal classrooms, but one might think there should have been at least a mention or two of this dude and his horror show.
As a piece of literature, this book is compulsively readable and difficult to put down. Characters assume larger than life stances and cannot be ignored. Everything is well researched and beautifully put together, despite Leopold ordering most of the paperwork burned at the end of his reign. It's kind of amazing how Hochschild and the researchers before him in the 80s and 90s were able to first get access to the scanty existing information, and then tame it into something understandable. For that alone, this book is a marvel.
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
sad
tense
slow-paced
dark
informative
sad
medium-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Confinement, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Homophobia, Infertility, Infidelity, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Cannibalism, Murder, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail