Christopher Silsby
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Christopher Silsby
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Theatre Ph.D.

Manager of a large WordPress multisite network

Research in Race, Musical Theatre, and Post-Revolutionary and Stalinist Russia

Teach theatre history and theory

Midwest born and bred. Mid-Atlantic by trade
54 40 or Fight! clearly had more rizz and is why the Dems are the powerhouse they are today
December 1, 2025 at 3:29 PM
The Whigs would like you to take your negative attitude all the way to Tippecanoe.

Look where they are today!
December 1, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Who are those three men standing around her, and what publications do they work for?
November 28, 2025 at 12:39 PM
/Manhattan has entered the chat
November 28, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Teamwork makes the (marital) dream work!
November 27, 2025 at 2:28 PM
But did you clear it?

Or is it still clogged AND you are laid up?
November 27, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Makes me want to deliver another Shakespearean scene at the school... (Not blaming your kids, despite Lear's meaning)
November 21, 2025 at 4:05 PM
There was something on NPR (WNYC) recently about it and Khrushchev's Secret Speech, but I can't find it right now. There is this older article by Miriam Dobson that provides a societal overview, and has lots of great footnotes, too.

eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/75...
eprints.whiterose.ac.uk
November 20, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I know this isn't what you asked, but there is also an entire field of Soviet history studies devoted to de-Stalinization if you want to look at another post-specific-authoritarian (denouncing the Personality Cult while keeping the authoritarianism itself) for warnings about this kind of process.
November 20, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Now I have the second verse of "You're the Top" stuck in my head.
November 19, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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November 17, 2025 at 7:36 PM