Stalinism in a Siberian Province: Class War, Collectivization, and the Birth of a New Rural Order

A Weaponized Intellects Book Review of James Hughes’ Stalinism in a Russian Province: A Study of Collectivization and Dekulakization in Siberia By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | November 23, 2025 Where the Revolution Met Its Hardest Soil Siberia is where the myths melt, comrade. It's where the Western left’s soft, sentimental picture of socialism... Continue Reading →

Life, Terror, and the Making of Soviet Power: Liberal Revisionism, Western Marxism and Siege Socialism

A Weaponized Intellects Book Review of Robert W. Thurston’s Life and Terror in Stalin’s Russia, 1934–1941By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Intellects Book Review - October Revolution Series | November 22, 2025Entering the Battlefield of Soviet HistoryLet’s begin with a simple truth that Western academia has spent a century trying to bury: the meaning of the... Continue Reading →

Hankow 1958: Mao’s Checklist Against Bureaucratic Decay

From Chengtu’s questions to Hankow’s battlefield, Mao sharpened the class line, armed the masses with democracy, and struck at the overlord style that threatened to hollow out the revolution.Weaponized Statecraft Series | Mao in Hankow, 1958By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | September 14, 2025From Chengtu’s Questions to Hankow’s BattlefieldApril 1958, Hankow. Weeks after forcing... Continue Reading →

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