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A really great article actually, was it only ever the article and not a book? However, I got to say that there still seems to be a lot of anticommunist priming in nearly every sentence. And calling women in communist state positions advocating for liberation "cultural imperialists" is a little over the top. I forgot what it's like to be in the weird in-between zone where you recognize socialism as a successful system that has already achieved great success for worker libration but still have to do the anticommunist song and dance to be "taken seriously", maybe even from your own perspective yourself.
Ghodsee is kinda weird like that. She's gotten better over the years (I think) but she had a vein of anti-stalinism that kinda tinted how she wrote about the USSR imo.
She did expand the article into a full book.
Oof. It's been a while since I've read it.