The militarizing of the Soviet Union was the largest, longest, and most ambitious effort to implement socialism in human history. It was also a state… - Paul D. Miller
" "The militarizing of the Soviet Union was the largest, longest, and most ambitious effort to implement socialism in human history. It was also a state that survived only by all of society and sustaining a permanent state for seven decades. As soon as it began to relax, it collapsed. Is biggest and most intensive effort, there is strong reason to believe it will succeed elsewhere.
About Paul D. Miller
Paul D. Miller is an American academic, blogger, and former White House staffer for Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. He is a Professor in the Practice of International Affairs at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. He is a former Associate Director of The William P. Clements, Jr. Center for National Security at the University of Texas at Austin. He formerly worked as an adjunct political scientist at the RAND Corporation. He is a reserve Army officer and veteran of the War in Afghanistan. Miller's writing has appeared in Foreign Affairs, The Washington Post, The American Interest, War on the Rocks, and elsewhere.
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Many of the famed New York intellectuals of the 1930s and 1940s who later shaped neoconservatism, including Norman Podhoretz, Nathan Glazer, and Irving Kristol, were either immigrants or first-generation Americans whose families had direct experience with the totalitarian movements then wracking Europe.